ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Alina Simone (Director/DP/Producer) is a Ukrainian-born journalist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian Long Read, California Sunday, Slate, and NPR, among many others. Her articles have been featured on best-of lists in The Atlantic, NPR and Rolling Stone, and have been optioned for film by major studios. She is the author of an essay collection and a novel, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and has taught writing at Yale University. Simone is the recipient of the Andrew Berends Film Fellowship, an NYSCA/NYFA Film Fellowship and the Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. Black Snow is her first film.

Kirstine Barfod (Producer) is an acclaimed film producer, celebrated for her significant contributions to the film industry. She has earned prestigious awards including an EMMY, a Cinema Eye Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production, a Peabody Award, and a 2020 Academy Award nomination for producing The Cave, a documentary by two-time Oscar-nominated director Feras Fayyad. Throughout her career, Kirstine has produced and co-produced numerous notable documentaries and series, such as Reunited (Hot Docs), The Magic Life of V (Sundance), and Ibrahim (TIFF). Her outstanding work led to her invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Aleks Gezentsvey (Editor) has received multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Documentary and a BAFTA for the film "Navalny" (as co-editor) an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and the Sundance Audience Award for "Jim: The James Foley Story." Her films and series have appeared on major platforms such as HBO, Netflix and Hulu.

Katya Mihailova (Composer) is a composer for film and media whose work spans the range from solo piano to experimental-electronic, and orchestral to folk. Katya has composed original scores for numerous documentaries, features and shorts, including “The Territory,” “Born Free,” and "Russian Woodpecker.” Originally from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Katya holds a Masters Degree from the Manhattan School of Music in piano performance. She has been nominated for the British Academy Television Craft Awards for Original Score and was a Film Composer Fellow at the Sundance Institute. 

Morten Green (Sound Designer) a seasoned professional in film and television sound, boasts a career spanning over two decades since his graduation from the National Danish Film School in 2001. He's made substantial contributions to more than 20 Danish feature films, excelling as a supervising sound editor, sound designer, and re-recording mixer. His achievements include four Danish Film notable films like "The Good Nurse" (2023) and "Prisoner" (2023).