Bitch Academy (16+)
Russia, 2007, colour, 30 min.
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Young women in St. Petersburg go to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. They want to learn how to be modern and successful – real bitches. Bitch Academy is a tragicomic documentary about early Russian capitalism, which exists in the fears, hopes, dreams and intimacies of its young generation.
AWARDS
Jury Award, 54th ISFF Oberhausen, Germany, 2008; Special Award of «24Dok» Channel, Real Cinema Festival, 2008; «Golden Shorts», City’s main award ‘VIS Vienna Independent Shorts’, Vienna, Austria, 2008; Best Documentary Award, IFF ‘Shakena Stars’, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2008; Main Sponsor Award, IFF ‘Saratov sufferings’, Saratov, 2008; Dest Documentary, IFF Mediawave, Gyor, Hungary, 2009.
Alina Rudnitskaya
Alina Rudnitskaya
was born in 1976. A graduate of St. Petersburg University for Arts and Culture, Department of Film Directing (2001), she started her career in the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. In 2002, Alina filmed “Communal Residence”, film about communal flats of Saint Petersburg, for the project “Petersburg 300” dedicated to city’s anniversary. Rudnitskaya's films always have a characteristic original perspective; she is interested in studying gender relationships, especially from the point of view of women.
FILMOGRAPHY
The Letter, 2001; Communal Residence, 2002; Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich, 2003; Ryazanov, 2003; Amazons, 2003; Rural Lessons, 2004; Civil Status, 2005; Besame Mucho, 2006; Bitch Academy, 2007; At the Civil Office, 2011; I Will Forget This Day, 2011; How To Find a Man, 2013; Blood, 2013; The Bridges of Saraevo, 2014; Science and Life, 2015; Event, 2015.
Russia, 2007, colour, 30 min.
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Young women in St. Petersburg go to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. They want to learn how to be modern and successful – real bitches. Bitch Academy is a tragicomic documentary about early Russian capitalism, which exists in the fears, hopes, dreams and intimacies of its young generation.
AWARDS
Jury Award, 54th ISFF Oberhausen, Germany, 2008; Special Award of «24Dok» Channel, Real Cinema Festival, 2008; «Golden Shorts», City’s main award ‘VIS Vienna Independent Shorts’, Vienna, Austria, 2008; Best Documentary Award, IFF ‘Shakena Stars’, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2008; Main Sponsor Award, IFF ‘Saratov sufferings’, Saratov, 2008; Dest Documentary, IFF Mediawave, Gyor, Hungary, 2009.