Kseniya Yorsh

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]