Mariya Zvereva – Vice President
Maria Zvereva is a Soviet and Russian screenwriter, film dramaturg, and organizer of international film initiatives.
She has written screenplays for more than twenty-four feature films and television productions. Her best-known works include Defender Sedov (winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film), Remember Me This Way (Jury Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival), and Stolen Date (Grand Prix at the Women in Film Festival in Los Angeles), as well as the films and television projects Women’s Logic, Snow Angel, Love for Love, Five Minutes Before January, and many others.
Maria Zvereva is a member of the Guild of Film Dramatists of Russia, the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, and the European Film Academy.
She has served as Deputy Chair of the Confederation of the Unions of Cinematographers of the CIS and as Vice President of the Russian Society of Audiovisual Rights Holders.
In 1995, she served on the Jury of the Cannes Film Festival, in 1999 on the Jury of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as well as a jury member for the International Children’s Film Festival India (ICFFI) and a number of other national and international festivals
Since 2000, she has been the Founder, Vice President, and Program Director of the Spirit of Fire International Debut Film Festival.