Vika Evdokimenko

Vika was born in the Soviet Union during the perestroika. But as her popstar mother and physicist father fled the country, she spent her early years as an immigrant in Northern Ireland. After graduating from Cambridge University she performed with a jazz orchestra and a drum and bass band, travelled to Cuba where she studied screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional del Cine near Havana. When she found her way back to the UK she worked for acclaimed UK producers Stephen Woolley and John Battsek, and directors Mike Figgis and Kevin MacDonald before emigrating to the States. Since starting to direct her own films, her short doc RELATIVE MADNESS premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and her first narrative short KATYA & THE SCARLET SAILS premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize at the International Canada Film Festival and Best Short at Fargo Fantastic Film Festival. Her online spot FIND YOUR PEOPLE for Atsby Vermouth was a finalist in the 2014 AICP Award beforebeing shortlisted for the Porsche International Student Advertising Film Awards. Vika iscurrently pursuing her MFA in Film on the NYU Grad Film Program and developing THE PLACE BEHIND HER EYES as her first feature.