Natalya Naftalieva

Natalia Naftalieva is a famous Russian fashion designer and film director. She has participated in a lot of theatre, cinema and TV projects as a costume designer, created several theatrical and TV fashion projects, took part in various international cultural events including a UN fund raising act called Fashion Fights Poverty in Washington, European Culture Days in Luxembourg. She exhibited her collections in Russia and abroad and had a personal exhibition of her costume art collections in National Arts Club of New York. In 2013 Natalia graduated from Higher courses of movie and TV at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow specializing in Scenic Film Directing. In 2014 Natalia starts filming her first full-length experimental feature "Materia" as director and scriptwriter. In 2014-2015 Materia got several awards and nominations at International Independent Film Awards, California Film Awards, The Accolade Global Film Competition, Canada International Film Festival, Trenton Film Festival, Los Angeles CineFest, Colortape International Film Festival and Oregon Film Awards.