Festivals/Awards:
National Documentary and TV Award "Golden Laurel" 2011- Best Documentary
National Film Critics Award "White Elephant" 2011- Best Documentary
Best Documentary Nomination, Golden Eagle Award - National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia 2011
Audience Prize, Main Prize in "Faces of Russia" Nomination; Best Feature-lenght Film, Critique Prize,The Prize of All Russian State Film Archive - XXII All Russian Documentary Film Festival "Meeting with Russia" 2011, Verkhoturye, Russia
Director's Bio-Filmography:
Aleksei Y. Vakhrushev was born in Anadyr town (Chukotka peninsula) in 1969. He graduated from All Russian State Cinematography Institute (VGIK, Moscow) were he studied Direction in 1996.
Professional Experience
2008 - Present day: Owner, Producer, Director and Script Writer, High Latitudes ltd.
2000 - 2008: Director and Script Writer, ETHNO-ONLINE Production Company, Head of the Center of Audiovisual Anthropology of IEA RAS(PHD Dissertation is devoted to the Culture of marine mammal hunting of Chukotka peninsula natives (Chukchi and Yupik peoples)
1996 - 2000: Director and Script Writer, FILM-M STUDIO (Moscow).