Eva Lanska

Award-winning director, Eva Lanska has been garnering critical and popular acclaim with her hauntingly evocative films. After graduating from the London Film Academy in 2017 where she studied Cinematography, Eva shot her first film Ok, Mum. The film was selected by the Cannes Film Festival in the Short Conner and the Russian Pavilion programs in Cannes Film Festival. Throughout 2018, Ok, Mum won numerous awards in both America and Europe. Emerging on the scene as a student filmmaker, her early work Addicted won awards at both the California Film Awards and the Canadian Short Film Festival in 2018. As of 2019, Eva has finished work on her latest project, Little French Fish, shot in Paris with famous British actors Jonas Khan and Devora Wild in the lead roles. Perhaps the power of Lanska's film is her willingness to trust her viewers to respond to the humanistic principles that drive her work with their own sense of humanity. Unflinchingly she faces the complex life issues with which her audience can identify and find inspiration to overcome them. The power of her films is the strength of her intuition and deep faith in the positive message of her works. It is the authenticity of the characters and their conflicts and the richness of her film's atmosphere that make her work distinctive. (Who are her influences? All art derives from its predecessors? Maybe the Italian director Vittorio De Sica? Ask her as this would show her knowledge of the art form and put her work in a historical context.) Although Lanska now resides in London while a student she moved from Russia to France, traveling extensively. Life in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York enriched her life experience, but Eva admits that it was European culture and its powerful embodiment in music, films, particularly French cinema, which has left an indelible impression on her lifestyle and on her films. Eva is in love with her viewer, every minute of her work is saturated with this feeling, each frame is filled with meaning, subtext, hint, every movement, and detail are in their place and carries a certain symbolism, assuring that not a second of the viewer's time is wasted. Her love is contagious, she encourages us to believe, to seek, to find and not to lose hope, despite the circumstances. Eva underlines that there are no unimportant details because the soul of the film resides in her precisely depicted details of everyday life. Eva is inspired by her unswerving observation of everyday life, life that constantly whispers beautiful stories to us-with the only requirement of the director being to simply honor them and convey them to the actors, allowing the story to come to life on screen. Another source of inspiration for her is motherhood. Bringing up her daughter alone has deeply enriched her experience and understanding of other people and the world. Eva asserts that it I essential to remain loyal to herself, to her inner voice, and this is the principle she applies to both, her own life and filming, which to Eva are one in the same. Eva is also actively involved in various charitable movements dedicated to the social protection of children.