Screenwriter, director, tutor, producer
Darya Khrenova is a russian film director and scriptwriter. She was born in Russia, Moscow, where she graduated from VGIK - Russian state University of Cinematography in Moscow 1997. Her tv programmes are broadcasted on number of TV channels, and films participated in International Film Festivals. She worked on TV channel CULTURE as an author and director of weekly tv programs («Apocrypha», «Documentary camera», «Magic of the cinema») from 1998 to 2008. Then continued in different tv channels of Russia as a chief-editor: TVC, REN TV, The First.
AUTHOR/ DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAFY
- «The Magic Mountain of Vincenzo Bianchi», 2013, 54 min, Russia-Italy
Mihay Eminesku Award, official selection 2013, Romania
- «Who will be my husband?», 2015, 64 min, Russia
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/171302951
2 nomination of the Laurel Branch as the best art-movie, 2015, Moscow, Russia
TRT Documentary Award official selection 2016, Istanbul, Turkey
Bosifest official selection 2016, Belgrad, Serbia
prize of jury “Whithout borders” International Festival official selection 2016, Moscow, Russia
International Documentary Film Festival CineDoc Tbilisi official selection 2016 Tbilisi, Georgia
Prize for DOP of the “Autumn” cinema festival official selection 2016, Moscow, Russia
- «The last campaign of Baron», 2015, 70 min, Russia
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/145006174
2 nomination of the Laurel Branch as the best documentary of the year,2015, Moscow, Russia
Press prize of Volokolamsk International Film Festival, official selection 2015 Russia,Volokolamsk, etc
- «Pavlensky: life naked», 2016, 71 min, Russia-Latvia
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/209959386
Nomination for “White elephant”- prize of Russian cinema critics Guild, (2017, Russia, Moscow),
prize of International Documentary Film Festival ArtDocFest (2017, Russia, Moscow – Latvia, Riga), official selection
Kharkiv MeetDocs participant (2017, Kharkiv, Ukraine), official selection
Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films participant (2017, Litva, Vilnus), East Silver Market participant (2017, Czech Republic, Jihlava), special screening
prize of “Satellite over Poland” (2017, Warsaw, Poland), official selection
Gdansk International Film Festival (2018, Gdansk, Poland) official selection
Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival (2018, Pärnu, Estonia)
official selection
Festival Internacional de Cine de los Derechos Humanos (2018, Bolivia, Sucre) official selection
-«Abduction of Bogdo-khan», 2019, work-in-progress
Teaser: https://vimeo.com/273186455
-«Ghost-train», 2019, work-in-progress
Teaser: https://youtu.be/widDyk7N0qs
TV PROJECTS
«Magic of the cinema» weekly series, TV “Culture”, 2006-2009
«Documentary camera» weekly series, TV “Culture”, 2007-2013
«Film chiefs: builders and perestroika-makers» series, TV “Culture”, 2010
Special projects for REN-TV (“I'm not scared”, “Return Point”,
«To survive in megalopolis», etc.), 2009-2012
«Life of wonderful people» weekly series, TV The First, 2013
«Land of bears», 2018, 52 min «Great Explaration of Siberia», 2018, work-in-progress «Way up is closed?» (ecology progect), 2018, work-in-progress
PRODUCER’S STORY:
«Who will be my husband?», documentary by Darya Khrenova, 2015, 64 min, Russia
«Pavlensky: life naked», documentary by Darya Khrenova, 2016, 71 min, Russia-Latvia
«Hasret», documentary by Elena Demidova, 2019, 90 min, Russia-Turkey
Debuts:
“I’ve believed, I believe”, documentary by M.Kosobokova and P.Zavadskaya, 2017
“Kinoshok” special prize, official competition 2018, Anapa, Russia
“Festival Salón Internacional de La Luz”, official competition 2018, Columbia, Bogota
VOICES, official competition 2018, Vologda, Russia
“Great Message IFF”, official competition 2018, India, Pune
RUSDOCFILMFEST-3W, official competition 2018, USA, New York
REC, main documentary prize, official competition 2018, Sevastopol-Novosibirsk-Saint Petersburg
“Borovsk effect”, documentary by P.Zavadskaya and J.Grebennikova, 2019, work-in-progress
“Ichthyosaurus”, documentary by N.Krutko, 2019, work-in-progress
Also:
-former columnist in periodicals ("The Soviet Screen", "Literary Newspaper", internet platform
‘Culture.rf’) - since 1997
- the head of the Summer Film Workshop at the Small Academy of Sciences of the city of Simferopol (Crimea) - 2014, 2015
-the head of Summer Film Documentary Workshop studio of the Summer School (‘Russian Reporter’) Dubna-Kimry, 2016
-member of Russian Guild of non-feature films and TV, member of the Union of Cinematographers.