Behind the camera.
Maxim Pozdorovkin
Award-winning director and writer based in New York. Most recently wrote and directed The Conspiracy, an animated feature charting the history of conspiracy theories — produced by Story Syndicate, starring Liev Schreiber, Lake Bell, Ben Shenkman, and Jason Alexander.
Earlier work includes The Truth About Killer Robots (HBO Max, TIFF 2018 — called "a terrifying work of science nonfiction"), Our New President (Sundance 2018 Special Jury Award — assembled entirely from Russian propaganda covering the Trump presidency), Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Emmy winner), The Notorious Mr. Bout (Sundance 2014), and Clinica de Migrantes (HBO Max).
Holds a PhD from Harvard for a dissertation on early Soviet propaganda; a frequent media commentator on Russian politics. Also hosts the Beautiful Minds interview series at Harvard.
Editors. Cinematographers. Composers.
Award-winning editor and composer. His first feature, Our New President, premiered at Sundance 2018 and won a Special Jury Award for Editing. As a member of The Presidential Band, he scored both Our New President and The Truth About Killer Robots (TIFF 2018).
Brooklyn-based editor and cinematographer drawn to the poetic potential of science. Work has appeared on Netflix and at DOC NYC and True/False; commercial clients include Alibaba and Decathlon. 2020–21 UnionDocs Fellow.
Jenny Lim, Jonathan Rapoport, Jeanne Applegate, Dasha Bough, Joe Bender — and producers, fixers, and collaborators we work with around the world. Visit the studio page →