Kristina Panova

Born in 1994 in Moscow. For a long time, she developed in advertising as a creative copywriter, but after 8 years in the industry, she began to change her focus towards cinema. Graduated from the Directing program of the Moscow Film School, curated by Alexey Popogrebsky and Pavel Bardin. In 2022, she became the winner of the open call Beat Film Festival. In 2023, she won the IRI Debut grant, and in 2023 she was included in the longlist of the Lenfilm-Debut laboratory. In 2024, she entered the top 15 projects participating in the WRAP x GES-2 x AKI film laboratory. Her diploma film "The Ridge" became the best short film at the Mayak festival in 2024, as well as the Best Feature Film at the Days of Short Films.