Discover Top Freelancers in Moscow, Russia

An accomplished freelance writer, editor, creative producer and media manager with more than 15 years of experience in the online, broadcast and print media and publishing industry. Possess excellent storytelling, editorial, research and managerial skills, and a knack for potentially successful stories. As a freelance writer, I contribute to leading lifestyle and business media and support individual and institutional clients with storytelling projects. Throughout my career, I have worked for a wide range of publications, including international media brands such as Forbes, Marie Claire, L’Officiel Voyage, Inc. I have conducted and written dozens of interviews with prominent cultural figures such as theatre director Robert Wilson, artist Robert Longo, actress Kate Hudson, fashion designer Antonio Marras, industrial designer Karim Rashid, and conductor Teodor Currentzis, BMW Group's Head of Cultural Engagement Thomas Girst, President of the Salzburg Festival Helga Rabl-Stadler, to mention just a few. I am a thorough researcher and leave no minor detail without fact-checking. The major features of my texts are an engaging style, transparent structure, and verified information. I only take up projects I find interesting and exciting to work on, as I believe enthusiasm and passion are key to success. Last but not least, meeting deadlines is my top priority, along with the quality of writing.

• Copywriter
• Senior Editor
• Podcast Producer
• Translator
• Fixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Copy Editor

Execute a production in Russia without losing nerve cells. With me.Trusted by BBC, National Geographic, Discovery and many others.My specialisation is documentary - long hours, travel far and wait.Wealth of contacts to assemble trusted team. My specialisation is documentary - I can do long hours, travel far and wait. Shoot mostly on Sony FS7, but can do Canon C300, RED, DSLR or even VHS if you need it. I’ve put radio microphone on enough times to be sure it doesn’t crackle. I mostly work in international teams, and know that production is all about people work ethics Assembling professional english-speaking crew that is always on time, on location and delivers footage in neatly-named folders. Story research and development by research team. Imagine just leaving a comment in GoogleDoc and seeing content pouring in on it Rent kit locally to save your production from customs risks. Tap into my network of contacts. Paperwork and filming permits. Flexible payment methods Andrey Manirko Camerawork Linear production Contact Execute a production in Russia without losing nerve cells. With me. Scroll down for more CAMERA My specialisation is documentary - I can do long hours, travel far and wait. Shoot mostly on Sony FS7, but can do Canon C300, RED, DSLR or even VHS if you need it. I’ve put radio microphone on enough times to be sure it doesn’t crackle. I mostly work in international teams, and know that production is all about people work ethics. FIXING Assembling professional english-speaking crew that is always on time, on location and delivers footage in neatly-named folders. Story research and development by research team. Imagine just leaving a comment in GoogleDoc and seeing content pouring in on it Rent kit locally to save your production from customs risks. Tap into my network of contacts. Paperwork and filming permits. Flexible payment methods About me Born in Moscow. Lived in UK for 9 years. MA "Information Experience Design", Royal College of Art, London BSci "Mathematics and Philosophy", University Of Bristol playtronica.com is my interactive design agency and electronics startup. We exhibit in museums like Pompidou and sell hundreds of gadgets worldwide. I teach creative project management in design in universitites and businesses

• Documentary DP
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Fixer

Education Bachelor of Journalism faculty, department of International Journalism, State St. Petersburg University Camera man-course in St.Petersburg School of Television and Broadcasting Late-time student of the 1st course in Moscow Film School, film director`s faculty Additional Education 2006-2009 – Musical School 2009 – 2012 – Musical Theater, Organization of concerts, taking part in this concerts 2010 – 2011 – Course of organization programs 2014 – camera course in SPbTV school Professional experience (St.Peterburg) 2009 – 2010 - cooperation with the youth newspaper “5 UGLOV” 2010 – 2011 – part-time journalist in the “LivingLife” magazine and the youth journalist in the society oriented newspaper “My district” 2011-2013 – editing the School newspaper “The 352 Paper” 2012 – organization of “International Assembly of Business Angels” in SPb in Smolny, communication with Mass Media of China, Italy and Russia, post release writing 2011 – 2012 - editorial activities in the student

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Company

Vladislav Ketkovich, 20.09.1971. Graduated Moscow State Teacher Training University, studied at Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors. In 1990th organized and participated in ethno-geographic expeditions, where worked as a journalist and filmmaker. First filming experiences - visual anthropology: Pigmy people (Zaire), Peruvian Indians (Peru), nomadic Kazakhs (Kazakhstan), etc. Shootings from expeditions were broadcasted at many Federal TV Channels in Russia in 1990th. Published articles and photos at GEO, National Geographic and other magazines. In 2000 founded production company Ethnofund. Since 2006 Ethnofund has produced more than 20 documentaries (singles and series, most of them with Russian State support), that are broadcasted on number of TV channels. Ethnofund's won a number of prizes and diplomas at different IFFs. Vlad works both as CEO and Producer. Since 2010 Vlad works a lot with International partners, mostly as a coproducer and local producer.

• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Sound Mixer

Sergey Ponomarev is a freelance photographer. Before becoming a freelancer in 2012, Mr. Ponomarev worked for the Associated Press starting in 2003. Mr. Ponomarev is best known for his photojournalism works depicting Russian daily life and culture as well as news images from the Libyan uprisal. He has won many international and domestic photography awards. Most recently, Mr. Ponomarev won the third place prize, in the war category, at the 2014 Picture of the Year contest, WorldPressPhoto General news 3rd Place, received an honorable mention in the 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest, was shortlisted for the Terry O’Neil Photography awards and earned an award of excellence from the Society of Publishers in Asia for his moving coverage of Typhoon Haiyan. Born in Moscow, Mr. Ponomarev graduated Moscow State University and Academy of Labor and Social Relations. He enjoys snowboarding, researching history, watching war movies

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial

My name is Konstantin Salomatin. I am a multimedia journalist based in Moscow, Russia. My passion is covering human interest stories and finding something extraordinary in everyday life. In 2017 I have expanded my professional interest to documentary filmmaking. Since then, I have been shooting documentaries and news video for various international media platforms including Radio Free Europe/Current time tv (Russia), Eurasianet, The Economist, Vox Pot (Czech Republic), Romb (Russia), infoNetwork (Germany). I started a career as a photojournalist in 2002 working for various local newspapers, and in 2009 started to work as a freelancer with Russian Reporter magazine. As a photographer, I have worked for many international media, such as NRC Handelsblad (The Netherlands), Le Monde (France), NPR (US), Expert magazine, Ogonyok magazine, Russian Reporter magazine, Chicago Tribune, Kommersant, Geo magazine Russia, Newsweek (Russia), China Daily, Sports Net Magazine (Canada), among others. Awards 2019 - Redkollegia award for the documentary “Shies under the siege”. 2019 - “Profession journalist”, Berlin, for the text reportage “Clockwork Mandarin” about Xinjiang repressions. 2012 - Leica Oscar Barnac top ten, for the photo project “The End” about the community of people who awaits the apocalypse.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

A seasoned multilingual media professional specializing in newsgathering and content development from around the world for domestic and international audiences. I have produced and reported multiple short and long news stories, live shots, special programs, exclusive features, documentary segments and interviews with top officials and newsmakers in Russia, post-USSR region and internationally, gained access to many hard-to-get places, stories and individuals. Extensively traveled the region and the world, covered international and domestic politics, wars and revolutions, major scheduled events, economic news, science, cultural and sports events. I have worked in hostile environments, in extreme weather conditions, hand in hand with some of the best professionals in the industry from VICE Media, Thomson Reuters, CNN, BBC World, RTE, CBC, PRI, Discovery etc.

• Fixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 2011 – 2015 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty: Communication & Mass Media 2011 – 2015 Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Russian State University) Faculty: Advertising & PR 2015 - till now The Higher School of Economics Mediaproduction in creative industries WORK EXPERIENCE I've worked as a journalist and assistant of PR-manager in advertising company during my studies in Greece. Also I taught Russian there and then worked as event-manager. I know pretty well Greek and English, so I do translations from English/Greek to Russian. When I came to Russia, I was working for well-known Russian News Agency "Rossiya Segodnya" as editor-translator. Then I decided that my dream job is a job in film industry as a producer or director. I wish I could participate in that kind of projects.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I was born in 1980 in the small city Tula. At 2001 I finished Teacher Training university like philologist. Then I moved in Moscow and begun to work like a photographer and journalist in Social magazines and newspaper. At 2014 I finished VGIK and got high documentary film director education. Now I am the member of Documentary film and TV Guild, in the list of 200 best documentary filmmakers in Russia in 2013 and 2014 years. I made 10 art - documentary films and about 15 commercial ones. The art – documentary film «Salmon has a hot blood» took part in short film corner in Cannes film festival at 2014 and in another large film festival in Russia. This film was bought by Russian TV channels for broadcasting. Now I making my new film, “The fighter». This film is about how the reach Russian men around 40-ty got their faith in God.

• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fixer

Education 2000 – graduated from VGIK film school (Russian National Institute of Cinematography) Dept. of Directing. I worked as a journalist, writer, director and producer. I got to the theater DOC (Moscow) and was fascinated by the freedom prevailed there. I maked some plays there, one of them is about the contradictions of Russian political PR at the beginning of the 21st century. Directed Movies 180 beat, doc. 95 min, about Russia 90th and rave-party. “Waiting for Vano”, art documentary about Russian-Georgian war, 60 min. “Kaleidoscope”, feature film, 90 min drama, comedy. “Vladimir Vysotskii, 205 days”, tells about narcotic agony of a famous Soviet poet and actor, doc “Law”, documentary, 15 min, A film about Russian narcotics law, part of the “White Death” documentary series. “Hacker”, documentary, 40 min

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer

Study TV and political journalism at the Moscow State University, I'm in my last year as a bachelor. I've started working as a correspondent at school in the local newspaper and news agency. Having been a a first-year student, I wrote for Russian magazines "The Ogoniok" and "The Journalist". Then had an experience as a correspondent on the channel "Russia-24" and this summer joined to the channel "TV-Rain", but could not work full-time because of my diploma, but hope to become a part of this amazing editorial team after University. By the way, my diploma is a documentary film, and now I work on it. I'm interested in political, social and cultural themes. And, of course, in documentaries. I know how to use video and photo-cameras, Adobe-Premier and other programs and can introduce myself as a universal journalist.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Open Russia specializes in covering politics, development issues and current affairs in Russia. We are ready to create special series, news stories in video format and also documentaries. Open Russia team has a wide experience in all stages of production process (from pre-production to post-production). We are proficient in video journalism and video editing techniques. Open Russia has required technical assistance for shooting, editing and also creating all the types of graphics (interactive and static). We can conduct interviews and cover current affairs for foreign media. Cheap and fast. Now the Open Russia crew covers a story about Nagorno-Karabakh. We want to reach out if there is an opportunity for us to work together and we’re ready to work on your next project.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Drone Operator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Russian/Canadian documentary director, cinematographer, producer. Directed 6 feature-length and 8 short documentaries to date. Led and took part in film projects in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Guinea, Serbia, Bosnia, Canada, US, UK, the Netherlands, Russia and other countries. Received a B.A. (Hon) in Communications and Political Science from the University of Toronto/Sheridan College and a Ms.C. in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam. Winner of the Canada Screen Award for “Best Research” for HBO’s “Tales from the Organ Trade”. Five-time returning judge for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Speaks fluent English, Russian and intermediate Arabic.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Translator
• TV News Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location

Hello! My name is Sergey, I was born in 1983 in Moscow and still live in this city. For the last five years I have been working as a freelance operator. Until February 2022, my main customer was the German TV channel Deutsche Welle, for which I filmed TV reports and documentaries. In addition to Deutsche Welle, I also worked on other projects. In May 2022, I shot a documentary in Armenia. In November, I shot a corporate video for a pharmaceutical company in the Republic of the Congo. In the summer of 2021, I participated in the filming of a documentary about village football as a second cameraman and drone pilot. You can see other documentaries on my VIMEO. I will be glad to find new customers here. Most of all I want to shoot documentary projects for TV or for festivals.

• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News

Director and producer. Graduate from the Ural State University, department of journalism (2002) and Moscow-based Institute of Cinematography, department of documentary film directing (2007). Has been working with various studios since 2004, making documentaries. Her short movies (Faithful, the Old Dacha, Unemployed) have taken part in most prestigious festivals around Europe (DOK Leipzig, IFF Jihlava, etc.) and have won numerous awards. Her first full-length film LINAR was released in 2013, successfully screened and awarded internationally with premiere in Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival as the Opening Film. Focuses mainly on human stories.

• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
• Production Company

I am DI Colorist, Filmmaker, Photographer. I`ve been doing video production and post-production for more than 5 years. I have a color suite (a room for color grading with professional equipment) that fits ISO 3664 and ISO 12646. Internet upload/download speed is 100 Mbps (1 Gbps by special request). I also have a backup Internet line. My workspace has uninterruptible power supplies for all devices, as well as RAID storage for data and a cloud backup. I work with clients range from micro businesses to international companies for short-terms and long-terms contracts, while delivering individual approach and the service quality like big video production companies.

• Production Company
• Sound Designer
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Colorist
• Post-Production Manager
• Motion Graphics Designer

Hi! I'm a young and determined Videojournalist based in Moscow, Russia, who is willing to evolve in international media. Have more than a 5-year experience in both Russian and international outlets, prominent Russian and English speaker. Bachelor degree in TV and Cinema Production at the Gerasimov's State University of Cinematography (VGIK). A fast thinker who has wide experience both at breaking news and at soft stories. What I can offer for you: Video production (ENG/drone/live transmission), production assistance (research, fixer job), any kind of field production, translation (Russian-English).

• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• HD Live Operator
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

Was born in 1968 in Moscow, Russia. From 1992 to 2002 lived in New York City (USA). In 2001 studied in New York film Academy. In 2005 graduated from Higher courses of screenwriters and film directors in Moscow, Russia. From 2005 to the present works as a director, author, editor and DP. Directed commercials and corporate films for brands such as Transaero, Aeroflot, Kristall diamonds, LensMaster, Moscow Urban Forum and others. Made short films and tv documentaries for Channel One, TV3, Russia Today. In 2012 attended documentary workshop in a Higher School of Journalism. A member of the Russian Documentary Guild from 2013.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

A multilingual media professional specializing in newsgathering and content development around the world for domestic and international audiences. First history major at Moscow State University, then a New York Film Academy graduate in Los Angeles I have produced multiple short and long news stories, live shots, special programs, documentary segments and interviews, gained access to many hard-to-get places, stories and individuals. I have worked in hostile environments with professionals in the industry from for VICE, CNN, BBC, and RAI.

• Line Producer / On-Location
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Translator
• Reporter / Journalist
• Creative Director

Born in Russia. Graduated from Alexander Mitta film school as a director. Created the Smile Shot Production company for creating music and adverts videos. Smile Shot Production became quickly famous among Russian musicians. Filmed a short film "The Right Address", which participated in numerous film festivals in Russia and abroad. Open to all new trends and interesting, unusual ways of shooting and editing. Eager to always find more suitable or cheap way to shoot great shots and to make great visual effects. Very interested in new lighting effects, study it with pleasure.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary