Inessa Kraft

Inessa Kraft is an actress, writer, and director. Sustainability, education, and connecting cultures are the main topics of her work and life. Inessa is focused on educational, travel, and inspirational films, videos, advertisements, and stories. Inessa was always interested in life, philosophy, and human nature. She discovered a book of Konstantin Stanislavski "An Actor prepares" and was amazed that the art of acting is not about pretending or "acting mechanically," but actually about living. After that she started studying performing arts. Inessa can play a good or bad, serious or funny character, but she chooses only the scripts that arise light feelings in the audience, focusing on focused on educational, travel, and inspirational projects. In 2011 and 2012 she got support roles in English learning TV programs in Thailand and Japan. Starring next to Mika Hijii in English learning TV series "Otona no kiso eigo" for NHK, Japan, and in English learning TV series "Wink Wink English" for TV5, Thailand. She had several lead roles in a number of Travel videos, filmed by Tourism Authority of Thailand including a travel film "Amazing Advetures", appeared in promotional videos and ad campaigns for numerous luxury and boutique hotels in Asia. In 2015 Inessa participated in research and production, and played a lead role in a funny viral PSA video for NGO Freeland - "Slow Loris are not pets". In 2017 Inessa was selected by a Thai director Thanonchai Sornsriwichai (Tor), well know worldwide for his sad-vertising (sad, sensitive advertising with a cinematic feel) to play a lead female role in a beautiful web Film titled "The Last Song". Inessa Kraft also wrote, produced, directed and starred in an adventurous, philosophical, and fun film Architecture Life Dialogue. The film was premiered internationally in May 2019 on the United Nations SDG Global Festival of Action, where the film was screened along side 10 other films. Besides the quality of the films and clarity of their messages, all selected pieces had one common line that made them stand out from the hundreds of the submitted films: their focus is not only about raising awareness on today's complex issues and challenges, but also the showcase opportunities that are emerging everywhere to take action and find local solutions. Based on the message of her film Architecture Life Dialogue Inessa Kraft makes speeches and presentations showing how A - zero waste lifestyle and B - the sharing economy will bring us to the dance of lives between people and the world of AB-un-dance. 2016-2017 Inessa spent living location independently working in films, videos, and advertisements in 13 different cities. "Actress" is an unusual profession for a digital nomad but it's thanks to the digital technologies she could record audition videos, present her portfolio in remote locations, and relocate wherever her jobs would take her. In 2008-2017 Inessa was based in Asia, and from 2017 she is based in Europe.