Anna Tchernakova

Born in St.Petersbourg, Russia
Canadian citizen

Trained as a film director in the acclaimed National Film Institute (VGIK) in Moscow, Anna Tchernakova has worked as a writer, film director and producer since 1993. Her films have participated in international film festivals including Tokyo, Berlin and Montreal.

Her credits include a one-hour documentary Postscript to Infinitas made for Ostankino Television (Russia, 1992), a feature The Cherry Orchard (35mm, Russia, 1993), a one-hour poetic science-fiction drama Last Summer (The May Street Group and CBC, Canada, 2000), an animation Sea and Stars (the National Film Board of Canada, 2002), documentaries Billesdon Millennium Music (2001), Writings On Water (2002), a short 16mm film Unified Theory of the Universe (2003) and others.

She has written scripts, stories and poems and directed theatre plays.

She left Russia in 1994 and since then taught at McGill University, Montreal, and worked as an independent filmmaker in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada).

Now Anna Tchernakova shares her time between Canada and England where she continues to work as filmmaker with her production company Zaleski Enterprises Ltd.

Work in progress includes features ‘Alexandra’s Ways’ (already supported by Aide à la réécriture from Centre National de Cinématographie, France), a Russian-Canadian co-production ‘Telemetry’, a new documentary 'Who Destroyed Mir' and Anna’s most recent feature 'The Season Of Mists' written together with Evgenia Tirdatova (in production, completion summer 2007).