Anastasiia Zhakulina

Anastasiia Zhakulina is a Russian animation director and artist, born in Balakovo in 1982. She graduated from the design department of Saratov Art College in 2003 and from the art department of VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) in 2009, and worked as a scene painter in the theatre. She has worked in animation since 2005 and makes hand-drawn short films at School-Studio SHAR in Moscow; her short Bright Souls, based on an early story by Vasily Shukshin, won the Grand Prix at Suzdalfest and at Animayovka in 2023.

August 22, 1982