Alexey Fedorchenko

Aleksey Fedorchenko is a film director from Yekaterinburg, Russia 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 long-extinct Finnic tribe of Merya. Since 2013 he is producing Space Mowgli, an adaptation of science fiction novella by Strugatsky brothers. His 2012 film Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari has been selected to be screened in the Vanguard section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Aleksey Fedorchenko was born on September 29, 1966 in Sol-Iletsk, in the Orenburg region of Siberia. After engineering studies, he worked on space defense projects in a factory in Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg). In 1990, he became official economist then deputy director of the Sverdlovsk State Studio. Since 2000, he has managed the studio’s production department, and participated in the production of over 80 films. He has studied dramaturgy at the Russian National Film Institute, and written screenplays for documentaries that were awarded numerous prizes at festivals worldwide. Since 2004 Aleksey Fedorchenko is an co-owner, film director and general producer of “29 February “ Film Corporation. http://29f.org/

Aleksey Fedorchenko currently lives and works in Ekaterinburg.

Filmography

Director

2014 – Angels of Revolution

2012 – The Fourth Dimension

2012 – Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari /Nebesnye zheny lugodykh mari

2011 – Chronoglaz

2011 – Australia

2009 – Silent Souls

2009 – The Wind of Shuvgey

2008 – Bath Day

2007 – The Railway