Anna Zaytseva

Anna is a director of one of the most popular Russian teenage series "No, you're stupid!" (Russian title "Sama dura"). The series won main prize "Best series" at the oldest German festival of Digital Series "Die Seriale" 2022 and "Best directing" at LAWEBFEST. The series has dozens of nominations and selections at international festivals. In October 2022, filming of the 3rd season was completed. Her feature thriller-horror "#BLUE_WHALE" (2022) produced by the internationally famous producer Timur Bekmambetov ("Unfriended", "Searching", "Wanted") and his company Bazelevs was premiered in official selection of the most important genre film festivals "Fantasia" (2021) and «Los Angeles Scream fest» (2021), and was in official selection of the festivals of A category: "Warsaw International film festival" in 2021, "Moscow International Film Festival" 2022. The film was also a nomination for "Dark Matters" in "Austin Film Festival". "#BLUE_WHALE" has numerous of good international reviews. Anna Zaytseva graduated from film directing masters program at the oldest and most important European film school - Czech film academy FAMU in 2015. Anna's several TV series that were produced for main Russian streaming platforms and TV channels participated in competition of main festivals in Russia "Pilot", "Realist" "Best Web award". Her short films were selected for 52 festivals and received dozens of awards. Her short film "No, you're stupid" has record number of views in Russian segment of Youtube - 35 million, and the web series based on the short film already 45 million views in a short time.