Background
Angelina Nikonova was born in Rostov-on-Don.
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Angelina Nikonova
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In 2001 she graduated from New York School of Visual Arts, with major in Film and Video.
Career
She dreamed about film directing since her childhood. However, the situation with national film production in Russia is complicated, especially for a woman. As Angelina notices: ‘Women as film directors are rarely trusted’.
Moreover, Russian viewer is reluctant to national product.
People rather go to watch Hollywood production, than a film made in Russia. However, Angelina did not give up on her dream.
She applied to All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after South. A. Gerasimov (aka Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography). However, as she claims later, it was easier to immigrate to United States of America than to get accepted in Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Foreign the film, Angelina worked as a director, a script writer, a producer, a location manager, casting director, make-up artists, and art director
At the same time, Angelina Nikonova worked as an organizator of International Film Festival 2morrow/Zavtra.
(aka Portret v Sumerkakh) received its world premiere at the 2011 Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival, where it became a subject of understandable controversy among both critics and audiences. lieutenant was shot during 29 days in Rostov-on-Don, with 5-6 people crew, consisting of friends and former classmate from New York, who was invited as a cameraman. The movie used 80 characters, 50 locations.
At first, the script was written by Olga Dihovichnaya in two days.
Later, it was edited by Angelina Nikonova, as the drama needed some ‘light’, as Nikonova notices in the interview. 2011 – – Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival, best cinematography, Eben Bulletin.
Achievements
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2011 – – Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival, best cinematography, Eben Bulletin. 2011 – – Reykjavik International Film Festival, grand prize. 2011 – – Warsaw International Film Festival, winner of 1-2 competition, ‘Foreign the original approach and courage in showing the true situation of women in a world in which they turn to be stronger than the strongest man’. 2011 – – 19th Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Best first film and Best screen play, Olga Dichovichnaya, Angelina Nikonova. 2011 – – Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics in Moscow, Best first film. 2011 – – 21st FilmFestival Cottbus – Festival of East European Cinema, Best Film.
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Russia