Filmmaking

Studio Berezin Film

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I have been shooting home movies on 8mm and Super8 film since as early as I could physically hold the camera – starting around elementary school (my dad helped a lot back then 😀 ) – and I’ve been playing with video, photo and audio ever since.

There was a time in my life when, for a few years, I was an independent filmmaker, video editor and VFX artist. I'm not actively making movies anymore, but the experience will always remain one of my fondest memories. I was most passionate about fiction movies, especially those that are fun and have a deep enough story with multiple layers.

My primary interest was to direct my own movies, but I also loved working the camera, editing, doing visual special effects (VFX), sound design, and to some extent producing. I’ve done some screenwriting, sound mixing and booming on set, DVD mastering, and even a bit of music composition.

What I love about making films is that it really requires skills in virtually every area imaginable: from pure art to hard-core technology, people and business skills. It’s a whole world compressed into a movie set.

Films I participated in

Don't Forget The Staples (Writer, Director, Editor)

23 Ways In Which I Could Die (Colorist, VFX)

Meeting (Director)

Improvise (DP, Editor)

Cult Fiction (Sound mixer, extra)

The Devil in the Detail (Director, Producer)

The Interview (Cinematographer)

Steve Wozniak Interview - Trailer (Editor)

Music Pill #1 (Instructor)

Music Pill #2 (Instructor)

Musical Diagnosis #3 (Director)

An Actor Thinks (DP, Editor)

Inside (Editor)

Jake's Game (Editor)

The Do-Over (DP)

Beyond Words (VFX Artist)

  • Magic Lantern (Director, Editor, with Scary Cow Productions) - completed in Nov 2014

  • An Interview with Esther Morfeen (DP, Editor, with Scary Cow Productions) – completed in Nov 2013

  • Don’t Forget The Staples! (Writer, Director, Editor, with Scary Cow Productions) – completed July 2012

  • 23 Ways In Which I Could Die (VFX & color correction, with Scary Cow Productions) – screened in Nov 2011

  • The Interview (Cinematographer, with Scary Cow Productions) – screened in Nov 2011

  • Meeting (Совещание, in Russian. Director, editor. In collaboration with NSK-Records and Alexey Berezin) – released on August 27, 2011.

  • Brother (VFX artist, 2011, with Scary Cow Productions) – screened in July 2011

  • Damage (graphics artwork, 2011, with Scary Cow Productions) – screened in Feb 2011

  • Magic Man (stereographer, 2010, with Scary Cow Productions) – screened in October 2010

  • Devious, Inc (VFX editor, 2010, with Scary Cow Productions)

  • Musical Diagnosis #3 (Музыкальный Диагноз #3) – a music TV show in Russia (director, editor, workshop leader, 2010, NSK Records, Novosibirsk, Russia)

  • An Actor Thinks (cinematographer, editor, 2010, with Scary Cow Productions) – screened in June 2010

  • Improvise (Director of Photography, video & sound editor, 2010, A Gang of Five Production) – screened in May 2010

  • Inside (editor, 2010, 48 hour film race, San Francisco, Team Rhobot)

  • Jake’s Game (editor, 2010, 24 hour film race, San Francisco, Team Rhobot)

  • I Hate You San Francisco (video & sound editor, 2010, with Movie Makers Unite)

  • Beyond Words (VFX editor, 2010, with Scary Cow Productions)

  • The Do-Over (Director of Photography, 2009, with Scary Cow Productions)

  • The Devil in the Detail (Director, editor, 2009, with Scary Cow Productions)

  • Cult Fiction (sound mixer, extra, 2009, with Scary Cow Productions)

  • So you want to be a producer? (class project at KMVT Community TV)

  • Help Fight EPD (sound mixer, actor, 2009, with Scary Cow Productions)

  • San Francisco – Mission – Impossible? (BVAC, class project 2008)

  • Additionally, I’ve been extensively crewing on shows at KMVT Community TV in many roles from camera in studio and in the field, sound mixing, editing, switching, directing – you name it.