Directing
37
Woman
17 Feb 1982 (42)
Krasnodar, USSR (Russia)
Natalya Meshchaninova
Director of fiction and documentary cinema, scriptwriter, writer. Winner of the NIKA award (for the script for “Arrhythmia”), prize-winner and participant of national and international film festivals. Born in Krasnodar. Graduated from Kuban State University of Culture and Arts, majoring in directing for film and television (2005). Worked as director at Krasnodar TV. After training at the Internews School of Documentary Cinema (2007, Marina Razbezhkina’s workshop), she started making documentary films. Worked on the serial “School” (2010). Her debut feature came with “Hope Factory” (2014), which won a prize for Best Debut at the White Elephant awards and a special award “Voice” from young film critics; participated in the competition of Rotterdam IFF and Kinotavr. Her series “Red Bracelets” won the Grand Prix at Dvizhenie [Movement] festival in 2015.
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| — | Anna's Hands | Director |
| 2023 | Three Minutes of Silence | Screenplay |
| 2023 | My Little Nighttime Secret | Screenplay |
| 2023 | My Little Nighttime Secret | Director |
| 2023 | The Edge of the Broken Moon | Writer |
| 2022 | Alyssa | Director |
| 2022 | Alyssa | Writer |
| 2022 | Alyssa | Creator |
| 2021 | My Mom's Penguins | Screenplay |
| 2021 | My Mom's Penguins | Director |
| 2021 | My Mom's Penguins | Creator |
| 2020 | And That’s It | Screenplay |
| 2020 | And That’s It | Director |
| 2019 | Storm | Screenplay |
| 2018 | Anna's War | Screenplay |
| 2018 | Core of the World | Screenplay |
| 2018 | Core of the World | Director |
| 2018 | An Ordinary Woman | Director |
| 2018 | Polina and Andrey | Screenplay |
| 2018 | Late Autumn | Director |
| 2018 | Late Autumn | Screenplay |
| 2018 | My Love | Producer |
| 2017 | Arrhythmia | Screenplay |
| 2017 | The Red Bracelets | Director |
| 2017 | Go to | Producer |
| 2014 | The Hope Factory | Director |
| 2014 | Another Year | Screenplay |
| 2014 | The Hope Factory | Screenplay |
| 2014 | Psevdezh i simulyakry | Director |
| 2012 | Till Night Do Us Part | Additional Director of Photography |
| 2012 | Х-Х | Director |
| 2010 | School | Director |
| 2010 | School | Creator |
| 2010 | Школа | Director |
| 2007 | Herbarium | Director |
| 2007 | Herbarium | Screenplay |
| 2007 | Herbarium | Director of Photography |