Asia Kolodizhner

Film critic, journalist, and screenwriter. A regular co-author, from 1994 to the present, of the television programme Kineskop with Petr Shepotinnik. She has written for Iskusstvo Kino, Seance, Ogonek, Stolitsa, Izvestia, and elsewhere. Among her best-known film and television work: Khutsiev. Action Starts! (2019, co-writer, Nika Award), We Others Will Not (2021, co-writer, Nika nomination), Shchedrin Suite (2024, co-writer). Co-author of many portrait films of Russian filmmakers and cultural figures, including Alexei German, Rustam Khamdamov, Yuri Lyubimov, Alexei Batalov, Andrei Voznesensky, and Otar Iosseliani. In 2026, that list was joined by Alexei Uchitel. The Fifth Floor. With Petr Shepotinnik she devised the concept of the Andrei Voznesensky Cultural Centre. Kolodizhner is a several-time recipient of the White Elephant Award.