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Natalia Arshavskaya

DOCU/PRO Expert: MEET PROFESSIONALS & UKRAINIAN DOC PREVIEW
Natalia Arshavskaya was invited to join Current Time TV in August 2016. Arshavskaya oversees the acquisition of the best international documentaries for the Realnoye Kino (Real Cinema) strand of Current Time TV, which aims to make the world of documentaries more familiar to Russian-speaking audiences. Since 2017 Natalia has also been a commissioning editor for the channel, with 14 films commissioned so far. These include the multi-award winning Putin’s Witnesses and Gorbatchev. Heaven by Vitaly Manski, and State Funeral by Sergei Loznitsa, films by prominent first- and second-time filmmakers such as Alisa Kovalenko’s Home Games, Heat Singers by Nadia Parfan and Earth is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk.