CURRENT MISSION

Be brave.

ABOUT ME

So, I am a freelance Filmmaker and Photographer. I am mainly a Cinematographer who shoots and occasionally directs music videos, short films and some commercials.
There are two passions in my life - Filmmaking (and arts) and Traveling.

I'm currently living in London and trying to combine my two passions - ideally being a travelling filmmaker. It is getting better and every year I do a few jobs abroad.
I also recently graduated from National Film and Television school (NFTS) with Masters in Cinematography.

Regarding travelling -I have visited 37 countries and counting..

My biggest travel was 4 months on my own in Asia.. Getting by sea and land(no planes) from
South Korea - China - Hong Kong - Laos - Thailand - Malaysia to Singapore.

Other highlights include Jordan, Eastern Turkey close to borders with Iran and Syria.

Central Asia - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Hitchiking by Afganistan border was also quite an experience!

In short - I'm all about contemporary arts, photography, film and traveling and meeting locals and travelers.

www.nsafronova.com - Some of my work

PHILOSOPHY

"Running away is always a best alternative."

And travelling is usually my way of running away.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've used Couchsurfing over 40 times in the past 6 years..
and surfed or hosted lots of people from:
Moscow
London
Edinburgh
Stockholm
Kiev, Lviv (Ukraine)
Athens
Skopje(Macedonia)
St. Petersburg
Paris
USA
Canada
South Korea, South Korea, South Korea and many times South Korea. Was Couchsurfing here for a month.
China
Malaysia
Singapore
Czech Republic(Brno, Prague)
Taiwan

Interests

Crazy about:
Chocolate and other stuff with lots of sugar
Photography
Films - watching and making
Film sets
Drawing
Exploring unknown streets
Meeting strangers
Chinese/Korean/Japanese culture
Trains, Planes & Buses
Travelling on my own
Big cities & tiny villages
Art galleries, Artists, and everything else with ART

• arts
• culture
• contemporary art
• photography
• cooking
• chocolate
• coffee
• running
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• kayaking
• business
• freelancing
• psychology
• budget travel
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies by:
Wong Kar-Wai, Kim Ki Duk, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Guy Ritchie, Darren Aronofsky, Emir Kusturica, Jean Luc Godard, Antonioni, David Lynch, Martin Scorcese, Wes Anderson, etc.

Favourite movies:
Chungking express - Wong Kar Wai
2046 - Wong Kar Wai
Time - Kim Ki Duk
Blow up - Antonioni
Mr Nobody - Jaco Van Dormael
Batman begins
Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan
Prestige - Christopher Nolan
Black Cat, White cat - Emir Kusturica
One Million Yen girl

And lots of other strange stuff movie students have to and like to watch.

Books:
Remarque, Banana Yoshimoto, Haruki Murakami, Fowles, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Bulgakov, Boris Vian, western classics and loots of stuff.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchiking in Korea on my own. Had a best month of my life(2011/11)
Hitchiking in China and Malaysia

Escaping a taxi with a crazy Chinese guy who brought me into a hotel instead of a train station.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED -My four months journey
South Korea - China - Laos - Thaland - Malaysia - Singapore.

Sleeping in a tent next to the highway at -3 with snow.
Sleeping on a train station in China.

Kayaking on Mekong for 3 days and sleeping in local villages, where people don;t speak english, cooking rice on fire and sleeping on the beach.

Staying in OCCUPY Hong Kong in Business district in a tent for a week. Amazing people trying to change the world.

2 weeks on my own exploring Balkans and Eastern Europe. Trains, buses, hostels and stuff.

Directed my own movie.

Teach, Learn, Share

Photography,
A bit of Mandarin(Chinese), German or I can teach you Russian!
Budget travelling or getting away from routine.
Or share tell you about life in Eastern Europe.. or Western Europe. Gypsies, penguins, polar bears, gentlemen, ladies, Egypt, Asian cinema, european cinema, .. Well, a bit of everything.

I wanna learn more about art, psychology and obviously excited to hear about your travels.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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