On April 13, Maria Sergeenkova, a film editor, screenwriter, creative producer, and jury member of The Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival, conducted a masterclass titled "EMOTIONS IN CINEMA" at the Educational Center of the State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky.
Maria Sergeenkova was born in St. Petersburg and earned her degree in film directing from the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts.
Since 1999, she has worked as a film editor on various film and television projects. She has been a member of the Union of Cinematographers since 2009 and joined the Guild of Film Directors in 2013.
Maria Sergeenkova has edited more than 60 films and television series, receiving the Golden Eagle Award for Best Film Editing for four of them (We Are from the Future, Brest Fortress, Battalion, Salyut-7). In addition, she has been recognized with awards from the Association of Film and Television Producers (APKiT) and the Mumbai International Film Festival.
Since 2019, she has been one of the curators and instructors of the Film Editing Directing program at the Moscow Film School.
Why do we laugh and cry while watching moving images on a flat screen? How do fictional film narratives shape our real lives? Maria Sergeenkova addressed these and many other questions during her masterclass.
About the Festival
The Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival in 2024 is held with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, State Corporation Roscosmos, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Research Institute, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Government and Ministry of Culture of the Kaluga Region, the State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, the Association of Planetariums of Russia, and other public and commercial organizations.
The festival's media partners include Roscosmos Media and TRK Nika, with TASS serving as the festival’s key media partner.
Maria Sergeenkova was born in St. Petersburg and earned her degree in film directing from the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts.
Since 1999, she has worked as a film editor on various film and television projects. She has been a member of the Union of Cinematographers since 2009 and joined the Guild of Film Directors in 2013.
Maria Sergeenkova has edited more than 60 films and television series, receiving the Golden Eagle Award for Best Film Editing for four of them (We Are from the Future, Brest Fortress, Battalion, Salyut-7). In addition, she has been recognized with awards from the Association of Film and Television Producers (APKiT) and the Mumbai International Film Festival.
Since 2019, she has been one of the curators and instructors of the Film Editing Directing program at the Moscow Film School.
Why do we laugh and cry while watching moving images on a flat screen? How do fictional film narratives shape our real lives? Maria Sergeenkova addressed these and many other questions during her masterclass.
About the Festival
The Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival in 2024 is held with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, State Corporation Roscosmos, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Research Institute, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Government and Ministry of Culture of the Kaluga Region, the State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, the Association of Planetariums of Russia, and other public and commercial organizations.
The festival's media partners include Roscosmos Media and TRK Nika, with TASS serving as the festival’s key media partner.