Volia Chajkouskaya Explained

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). Her credits as a producer include: Yoyogi (2022), Prazdnik (2019), 72 Hours (2019), My Granny from Mars (2018), etc.^[1]

Chajkouskaya is a voting member of the European Film Academy and a member of the Emerging Producers Network 2018.

Chajkouskaya is the founder and program director of the Belarusian Northern Lights Film Festival^{[2] [3] [4]} and one of the founders of the Belarusian Film Academy (BIFA).^[5]

In 2018, Chajkouskaya emigrated to Estonia and started working as a producer at AllFilm.^[6]

Her directorial debut, Common Language short, premiered at Jihlava IDFF in 2014.^[2]

As of 2024, Chajkouskaya is working on her feature debut The Wife of....

Filmography

Producer

• 72 Hours (2024)^[7]
• Yoyogi (2022)
• Prazdnik (2019)
• Pure Art (2019)
• My Granny from Mars (2018)
• Test-730 (2017)
• The Road Movie (2016)^[8]

Director

• My Idea of Myself (2020)^[8]
• Common Language (2014, short)^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Volia Chajkouskaya. IMDB. 2024-08-20.
2. Web site: Volia Chajkouskaya. Institute of documentary film. 2024-08-19.
3. Web site: Northern Lights Nordic/Baltic Film Fest: Director and founder Volia Chajkouskaya. Cunnigham. Nick. 2022-11-17. Business Doc Europe. 2024-08-20.
4. Web site: Volia Chajkouskaya • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival. Abbatescianni. Davide. 2023-11-21. Cineuropa. 2024-08-20.
5. Web site: Filmmakers Launch Belarusian Film Academy to Give a Voice to Threatened Artists in Repressive Putin Ally. Vourlias. Christopher. 2023-02-17. Variety. 2024-08-20.
6. Web site: Volia Chajkouskaya. Vodblisk. 2024-08-19.
7. Web site: Circle Women Doc Accelerator Reveals Cannes Docs Projects (EXCLUSIVE). Ramachandran. Naman. 2023-04-20. Variety. 2024-08-20.
8. Web site: Volia Chajkouskaya. Democratic Media Institute. 2024-08-20.