Masja Novikova
Masha Novikova was born in 1956 in Moscow, USSR. She studied pedagogy at the University of Moscow. And later worked as a teacher Russian language and literature. In Kazachstan she worked as a director-assistant in a German drama theater.
Short before the fall of the Berlin Wall she came to the Netherlands, since then she has been living and working in Amsterdam. First Masha Novikova worked as interpretot and as a teacher Russian. She also worked as a guide in the 'Szar Peter House' in Zaandam.
Later Masha started to work as an executive producer for Dutch television. At the same time she studied by Stefan Mayakowski at the 'Kunstweb' camera, script writing and filmdirection.
Since the year 2000 she also started to film herself, she worked with mini-dv as the second film photographer for several documentaries. In 2005 she directed her first film 'Fallen Engel', documentary about traffic in East -European women who were brought to the Netherland to work as prostitues.
Before making 'Three Comrades' Masha Novikova did some earlier work in Chechnya for documentary by Leo de Boer entitled 'Train to Grozny'. That was in April 2000, just after Grozny's total destruction. Driven by a feeling of shame about her own country, she has felt very much involved with the Chechnyan war ever since. In 2002 Masha Novikova did some shooting in Grozny for Jos de Putter's film 'Dance Grozny Dance'.
In addition, she did several film reports on Chechnya. She also worked in 2003 with Amnesty International on a film about Lidya Yusupova, who won the Martin Ennals prize in Geneve.
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Anja Ourikh
"Voor Novdoc doe ik vertaal- en tolkwerk en werk ik als productie- assistent. Daarnaast werk ik als docent in het primair onderwijs en geef ik Nederlandse les aan immigranten.
Ik ben geboren in Moskou in 1977. Ik was 11 toen we naar Nederland gingen." |
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Sasha Ourikh
"Ik werk als tolk, als vertaler en als productie- assistent voor Novdoc. Verder studeer ik Filosofie en Spaans.
Ik ben geboren in Moskou in 1978. Ik was 10 toen ik naar Nederland kwam." |
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Ljana Postma
"Ik ben geboren in Amsterdam in 1992. Elk jaar gaan we wel een paar keer naar Rusland. Mijn vader woonde een tijd in Ierland en nu in Italie. Daar ga ik ook vaak naar toe. Ik spreek dus Nederlands, Russisch en Engels. Ik volg mijn les op VWO en leer ook Frans, Duits en Spaans. Ik heb dit jaar Economie & Maatschappij als profiel gekozen. Voor NOVDOC corregeer ik teksten en help met onderzoek." |
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