Kseniya Yorsh | |
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Born | Oksana Kseniya Yorsh |
Education | New York Film Academy, UCLA Extension |
Alma mater | Belarusian State University |
Occupation | Producer |
Years active | 2013–present |
Kseniya Yorsh (born February 10, 1990, in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian [1] film producer who resides in Los Angeles.
Yorsh obtained her degree in International Relations at the Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus. She later went to receive a 1-Year Conservatory certificate in Documentary Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, CA, and a Business and Management of Entertainment certificate from UCLA Extension in Los Angeles, CA. [2]
Kseniya's first documentary Mask-Up talked about perception of female beauty by men and women. [3]
She then went on to produce a live-action short film What's Next? that received nominations at a variety of festivals around the world, such as Miami Independent Film Festival, [4] Roma Cinema DOC, [5] Brocken Knuckle Film Festival, [6] as well as winning InterShort Online Film Awards in September 2015. [7]
A documentary Yorsh produced later that year, Poly, was showcased at Cannes Short Film Corner in 2016 [8] and received distribution in Spain with Feelmakers [9] and US with Play Festival Films.
In 2016 she did an array of films, starting with Unorthodox that was nominated for the Audience Award [10] at the HollyShorts Film Festival and was well-reviewed afterwards. [11]
A short film Visitors was nominated for Best Sci-Fi Short at the New York City International Film Festival, Vail Film Festival, [12] and Newport Beach Film Festival. [13] The film was well received in the review by Tinsel Town News Now. [14]
Yorsh also directed and produced the short documentary Love in Porn - an insider's look into the romantic lives of those who have succeeded in the adult film industry. [15] The film screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 [16] and received distribution in Spain with Feelmakers, [17] in the US with Play Festival Films and in France with Gonella. The bloggers spoke highly of the sex-positive way in which the film depicts the workers of the sex industry. [18]
In 2017 another short film she produced, Stand By Her, is going to Cannes as well. [19]
Kseniya Yorsh's latest collaboration is with a Panamanian director Eric Iglesias for whom she is producing a feature film about one girl's choice and test of her moral values. [20]