Masha Chernaya

Director, cinematographer, journalist, photographer, and illustrator. She studied journalism at the Moscow State University, poetry at the Gorky Literary Institute, and post-documentary photography at Docdocdoc School. She has taken part in documentary campus-expeditions in Sviyazhsk and Yuryevets. Her films Crooked Ray District (2019), The Well Man (2019), R2CC (2020), To Kill What Lives Inside Me (2022), and Retrospective (2026) have screened at Window to Europe, Rudnik, Zerkalo, Beat Film Festival, and elsewhere. To Kill What Lives Inside Me (2022) and Here’s to the Absent the Ladies! (2023) were included in the National Competition at Message to Man. In 2024 she released The Shards, which screened at major documentary festivals worldwide, including Bildrausch Filmfest Basel and Cosquín International Independent Film Festival, and won awards at Doc Alliance and DocLisboa.