Volia Chajkouskaya
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Volia Chajkouskaya | |
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| Born | December 20, 1987 |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer |
Volia Chajkouskaya is a producer, film director and film festival manager of Belarusian origin. She studied directing and producing documentary films at the Baltic Film and Media School. In 2016, she founded a production company Volia Films. Her debut as a producer was Dmitrii Kalashnikov's The Road Movie (2016).[1] Her credits as a producer include: Yoyogi (2022), Prazdnik (2019), 72 Hours (2019), My Granny from Mars (2018), etc.[2]
Chajkouskaya is a voting member of the European Film Academy and a member of the Emerging Producers Network 2018.[1]
Chajkouskaya is the founder and program director of the Belarusian Northern Lights Film Festival[3][4][5] and one of the founders of the Belarusian Film Academy (BIFA).[6]
In 2018, Chajkouskaya emigrated to Estonia and started working as a producer at AllFilm.[1]
Her directorial debut, Common Language short, premiered at Jihlava IDFF in 2014.[3]
As of 2024, Chajkouskaya is working on her feature debut The Wife of....[7]
