Katerina Suvorova

Suvorova was born in the 1980’s in the USSR and was raised in Almaty, Kazakhstan where she received her art education. She studied live action cinema at the High Courses of Script Writers and Directors in Moscow and at the Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School in LA. Her documentaries have been awarded international prizes including the Critics Guild Award at Kinoshok Film Festival, National Russian Premium “St. Anna” and the Special Prize from Robert Bosch Stiftung. Special Mention of the Jury - Jihlava International Documentary Festival, Czech Republic, 2016. Kazakhstan’s Film Critics’ Award for the Contribution to the Development of Kazakh Cinema, 2016. #36 Festival international Jean Rouch - Comité du film ethnographique 2017, Anthropology and Sustainable Development Prize (France). Suvorova’s films draw on the everyday lived experience of diverse communities across Kazakhstan and wider Central Asia. Reoccurring themes in her work include ongoing political oppression, systemic gender discrimination, and colonialism's continuing consequences in the region. She is the founder and director of independent documentary studio Tihiy Svet, based in Kazakhstan.