Aleksey Fedorchenko

Aleksey Stanislavovich Fedorchenko Russian Алексей Станиславович Федорченко born September 29 1966 SolIletsk is a Russian film and documentary director who won accolades at the Venice Film Festival with the mockumentary First on the Moon 2005 and later with Silent Souls 2010 a magical realist tale about the longextinct Finnic tribe of Merya His works have been awarded prizes at the largest national and international festivals such as Venice and Rome IFF IFF Black Nights and Kinotavr Fedorchenkos film Annas War won the Russian Golden Eagle Award in the Best Film category He also won the award for Best Director region in 1966 Graduated from the Engineering and Economics Faculty of the Ural Polytechnic 1988 from script faculty of the Film Institute VGIK 2000 class of V Chernykh L Kozhinova and Yu Rogozin Since 1990 has worked at the Sverdlovsk film studio since 2005 he is producer and director of the film company 29 February Debuted in feature films in 2005 with First on the Moon