Nataliya Viktorovna Meshchaninova (russian: Наталия Викторовна Мещанинова, born on 17 February 1982) is a Russian
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
,
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
, and author.
As a screenwriter, she won, in 2015 together with
Lyubov Mulmenko, the
Nika Award for Discovery of the Year. The films she directed were screened on major international festivals, including
2018 Toronto International Film Festival
The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to ...
and
52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Meshchaninova was born in
Krasnodar
Krasnodar (; rus, Краснода́р, p=krəsnɐˈdar; ady, Краснодар), formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern ...
.
She started work on documentaries first. In 2010, she worked with
Valeriya Gai Germanika
Valeriya Gai Alexandrovna Germanika (russian: Валерия Гай Александровна Германика, born Valeriya Igorevna Dudinskaya (russian: Вале́рия И́горевна Дуди́нская); born 1 March 1984, Moscow) ...
as a director of the TV Series ''School (Shkola)''.
She is married to the actor
Stepan Devonin.
Filmography
As director
* School (''Shkola'', 2010), series
* ''Kombinat Nadezhda'' (2014)
* ''Red Bracelets'' (2015), series
* ''
Heart of the World'' (2018)
As screenwriter
* ''Kombinat Nadezhda'' (2014)
* ''
Heart of the World'' (2018)
References
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1982 births
Living people
Russian women film directors
21st-century Russian screenwriters