Volia Chajkouskaya

Volia Chajkouskaya
Born (1987-12-20) December 20, 1987 (age 36)
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]

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  5. ^ Abbatescianni, Davide (2023-11-21). "Volia Chajkouskaya • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  6. ^ Vourlias, Christopher (2023-02-17). "Filmmakers Launch Belarusian Film Academy to Give a Voice to Threatened Artists in Repressive Putin Ally". Variety. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
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