Award-winning transnational filmmaker Andrei Zagdansky received MFA from Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts in Kiev, Ukraine.  From 1987 through 1992 he directed/scripted and produced a number of “perestroika” films. The true coming of age was his first feature Interpretation of Dreams.

   Interpretation of Dreams juxtaposed a dialog between the filmmaker and Dr. Sigmund Freud and the history of the Soviet Union and Europe. The result was an "astonishing marriage of Freudian thinking and history” (Boston Globe). Film received Grand-Prix at home, critical acclaim abroad and was included in New Directors/New Films Series for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1991.
  In 1992 Andrei and his family settled in the United States. Two years later he received the Rockefeller Intercultural Scholarship.
  For several years Andrei worked as a free-lance producer for Russian-American Broadcasting company, and taught several courses on Film History at the New School University.
  In 2002 Andrei produced/directed Vasya, which explores striking images of Vasiliy Sitnikov-artist and his much puzzling myth.

  In 2006: Konstantin and Mouse,about a Russian avant-garde figure and performance poet Konstantin K. Kuzminsky.   

  in 2007: Orange Winter , a feature documentary, that chronicles political turmoil  in the streets of Kiev in 2004.  

  He is currently working on a feature documentary My Father Evgeni. 

 

Email: andrei@azfilms.us

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