CURRENT MISSION

Don't panic, it's only a movie.

ABOUT ME

Films and music are my bread and butter.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host from time to time, and surf gladly)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted a few wonderful people, and surfed incredibly well in Paris and Lyon.

Interests

One thing is for sure, I love working and travelling.
Now I manage two Moscow-based artists, and work as guest & hospitality manager & volunteer coordinator at a few film festivals in Russia and beyond. Last year, I made it my mission to travel every month, went to Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Austria, Greece, the UK, Hungary, Portugal, Belarus, and travelled in Russia quite a lot (can share stories of gangster cemeteries in the Urals and how film festivals are organised in Siberia).
Recently, started a yoga challenge, and try to do yoga 6 days a week.

• books
• music festivals
• festivals
• film festivals
• yoga
• music
• languages
• travel
• nature

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Alexei Aigui and Ensemble 4'33", Damon Albarn, Philip Glass, Blur, Coldplay, Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov, David Bowie

Movies - Russian movie Shapito Show, movies by Sam Mendes, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater. Twin Peaks. Silent and some Soviet movies.

Books - Jonathan Safran Foer, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Orhan Pamuk, Michael Cunningham, books on filmmaking, Patty Smith's "Just Kids"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Filmmaking and film festivals - best things ever
- Winning a UNESCO competition and going to Stuttgart for marvelous ten days, with 2006 teenagers coming from all over the globe during the World Cup. The great thing was that it happened to be my first trip abroad, my first flight, and that was really exciting

Teach, Learn, Share

The basics of Russian are at your disposal at all times! Plus, I've got lots and lots of musician friends in Moscow - so you'll have a chance to go to some great gigs if I host you

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Lebanon, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation