• director, producer, writer

    Agniia Galdanova is a award-winning documentary film director, known for her immersive storytelling and deep exploration of human relationships. Her previous film, One Step Forward, One Step Back, highlights a family's aspiration to live in isolation in the Altai Mountains, and it premiered at the Message to Man International Film Festival. Galdanova's latest project, Queendom, which centers on young queer artist Jenna Marvin, premiered in the Documentary Competition at SXSW 2023 and received NEXT:WAVE Grad Jury award at CPH:DOX. Her work continues to resonate through its poignant and observational approach.

  • Producer

    Igor Myakotin is an Emmy-nominated BAFTA-winning filmmaker who produced the feature-length documentary Queendom (2023), which had its world premiere at SXSW 2023 and won the NEXT:WAVE Jury Award at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. Igor also co-produced Welcome to Chechnya (2020), which HBO acquired before its world premiere in a 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary competition. Welcome to Chechnya has also been awarded the Peabody Award and BAFTA and received an Emmy nomination. Igor is a 2022 Sundance Producing Fellow and was named as one of the “40 Under 40” working in the documentary industry by DOC NYC. He believes that cinema is not a way to escape reality but a way to embrace it with all its peculiarities and its darkness.