Andrei Zagdansky
1994 Fellow
Fort Lee, NJ
Fragments of a Correspondence With My Father
A personal video tracing the filmmaker's video correspondence with his 74-year-old father, the former editor-in-chief of a major Ukrainian film studio.
Selected Works
Film
Orange Winter (2007)
Kostya & Mouse (2006)
Vasya (2002)
Six Days of New York (2001)
Letters from America (1998-2001, television series)
Two (1992)
Interpretation of Dreams (1990)
Registration (1988)
Accomplishments
Orange Winter received the Juror's Choice Selection (1st prize) at the 27th Annual Black Maria Film Festival in February 2008.

Orange Winter was released on DVD, available nationwide, in November 2007.

Orange Winter received a Special Mention Award at the Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, Spain - March 2007

Kostya and Mouse premiered at International Film Festival "Flahertiana-2006" in Perm, Russia, in May 2006 and received a jury award at the Human Rights Film Festival in Moscow in December 2006.

Vasya was selected for a special program at the Moscow International Film Festival in July 2003, and it was released on DVD in 2005.

Screenings: Lincoln Center, New York, New Directors/New Films, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Best Short, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 1992

Secretary, Ukrainian Filmmaker Union, 1990-1992

Grand-Prix, Voronehz, Russia, 1990
Education
1979 MFA, Kiev State Institute of the Arts, Ukraine
Web Site
News
April, May, June 2008
Andrei Zagdansky’s Orange Winter was awarded a Jury's Choice First Prize and Audience Choice Selection by the 27th Black Maria Film Festival, and was included in the festival's nationwide tour. This lyrical documentary charts the peaceful revolution in the Ukraine that developed after the fall of the USSR.
January, February, March 2008
Andrei Zagdansky’s Orange Winter was awarded a Jury's Choice First Prize and Audience Choice Selection by the Black Maria Film Festival, and is included in the festival's nationwide tour. This lyrical documentary charts the peaceful revolution in the Ukraine that developed after the fall of the USSR.
July, August, September 2007
Andrei Zagdansky’s lyrical documentary Orange Winter, about the peaceful revolution in the Ukraine after the fall of the USSR, was shown in San Francisco’s DocFest in September.
Interview

What do you do when you get stuck?

I get mad. Then I jog, read, watch movies and make love. I find these four forms of human activities the most creatively stimulating. It might take a day or two, or, as I’ve realized recently, years of jogging/reading/movie-watching and love-making to get through.

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