Alexey Marfin

Alexey Marfin is a film director and writer. Born in Leningrad in the USSR, Alexey emigrated to the UK in the 1990s. He began his filmmaking career as a visual effects artist at the Sundance-award-winning studio Factory Fifteen, before directing his own films. Alexey's films have screened worldwide - at the Academy-Award-Qualifying L.A. Shorts Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Busan Film Festival, and many more. He has been acclaimed in both Western and Asian media, including VICE, Nowness, Ming Pao Weekly, City Magazine (HK), RTHK, Time Out, and others. Alexey has also taught and lectured internationally - including Tsinghua University, City University of Hong Kong, and the Royal College of Art. He co-founded the Fiction & Entertainment Masters program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, which works with collaborators from Framestore, Sundance, Netflix, and more.