About me

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Projects

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  Russia's dying villages inspire rising star of art worldAlisa Gorshenina hails from a dying village. There are 20,000 abandoned communities across Russia and over 36,000 with fewer than 10 residents. Gorshenina's images are ghostlike and capture the dying countryside. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-s-dying-villages-inspire-rising-star-art-world-n994436?fbclid=IwAR2_KJwOkDGWuYZAT0BK6DLUqS9On4Sbu1b7sS0kdueMYKjLzOOgd4d6efM
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  BBC Our World - Ukraine's AIDS RacketBBC documentary looking at one of the world's fastest rising HIV epidemics in Ukraine.
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  Lights, cameras, madness: my troubling journey inside Dau, the most disturbing movie shoot in historyAn in-depth article examining the experience inside one of the most controversial art/ film/ social experiments of recent times called Dau, where real people lived in a simulated world of the Soviet Union for several years, producing over 700 hours of documented footage.

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Work history

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Documentary Director/ ProducerBBC Worldwide
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017London, United KingdomFreelance
Pitched, developed and directed a documentary film with reporter Lucy Ash about the community around a new bakery in the frontline town of Mariinka in Eastern Ukraine, where a low-level war still rumbles on.
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Documentary Director/ ProducerPhenomen Films
Apr 2016 - Nov 2018London, United KingdomFreelance
Directed two documentaries about the unique experiences of the participants of the Dau project, who were placed in the simulated world of the Soviet Union for two years, and filmed as they formed relationships, performed experiments and faced the challenges of the closed world.

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Skills

• Producing
• Filming
• Script Development
• Film Directing
• Fluent Russian
• Journalism
• Broadcast Journalism
• News Reporting
• Videography
• Article Writing