DOCS VOSTOK

GOING BEYOND THE OBVIOUS

DOCS VOSTOK

GOING BEYOND THE OBVIOUS

DOCS
VOSTOK

GOING BEYOND THE OBVIOUS

DOCS
VOSTOK

GOING BEYOND THE OBVIOUS

MISSION

DOCS VOSTOK is a production company focused on production, promotion and distribution of independent documentaries. Artistic documentaries is our main passion and it means that we are interested in talented authors and in personal stories. We support directors on every production stage, we are ready to develop a documentary project together with you, to organize shooting process and also to look for independent financing.

DOCS VOSTOK team has enough knowledge and is acknowledged at the international documentary community. We do sincerely love documentaries.

OUR FILMS

HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND

directed by MARUSYA SYROECHKOVSKAYA
produced by KSENIA GAPCHENKO, MARIO ADAMSON
co-produced by ANITA NORFOLK, ALEXANDRE CORNU, ARTE RBB
SWEDEN, NORWAY, FRANCE, 94'

Marusya and Kimi are inseparable lovers coming-of-age as Russia's nationalistic dreams take hold. Turning Marusya's camera on themselves, the two capture the euphoric anxiety of their youth, burning the candle at both ends -- but as one light burns brighter, the other may be extinguished forever. A message from a silenced generation
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Eurodoc, B2B, Nipkow Programm, Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries. IDFA Forum 2019, IDFA Bertha fund for production.

DREAM TEAM

KSENIA GAPCHENKO

founder, documentary filmmaker & producer

Studied at the Documentary Film and Theatre School of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov. Worked as a main programmer of the first Russian Documentary film center. Since 2013 active as a festival advisor of Russian independent documentary debuts. Since 2017 works actively as a documentary producer and director. Together with Marusya Syroechkovskaya founded Docs Vostok, independent documentary production. Participant of the workshops Eurodoc, Ex Oriente, Baltic Sea Docs; and pitchings Baltic Sea Docs (best award 2019 for the project How to Save a dead friend); EDP (best emerging pitching award for the project Holy culture!). Recipient of IDFA Bertha development and production funds.

MARUSYA
SYROECHKOVSKAYA

co-founder, documentary filmmaker & producer

She studied filmmaking at the School for Documentary Film in Moscow under professor Marina Razbezhkina and received her MA in Film Directing at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (graduated with honors). Her student short, Exploration of Confinement received a Jury Award at the New Orleans Film Festival 2013 and was long-listed for the 2013 Academy Awards. It was also selected for the 35th Moscow International Film Festival, the Message to Man International Film Festival 2013, Tenerife Shorts Film Festival 2014, and a number of other international film festivals. Her training includes workshops such as Ex Oriente Film, Flahertiana, and IDFAcademy. She received a fellowship from Nipkow Programm (Berlin, Germany). Marusya is a member of the Russian Documentary Guild (RGDoc) and EDN.

An award-winning filmmaker from Moscow, Russia.
She studied filmmaking at the School for Documentary Film in Moscow under professor Marina Razbezhkina and received her MA in Film Directing at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (graduated with honors). Her student short, Exploration of Confinement received a Jury Award at the New Orleans Film Festival 2013 and was long-listed for the 2013 Academy Awards. It was also selected for the 35th Moscow International Film Festival, the Message to Man International Film Festival 2013, Tenerife Shorts Film Festival 2014, and a number of other international film festivals. Her training includes workshops such as Ex Oriente Film, Flahertiana, and IDFAcademy. She received a fellowship from Nipkow Programm (Berlin, Germany). Marusya is a member of the Russian Documentary Guild (RGDoc) and EDN.

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