Nina Kochelyaeva – Ph.D. in History, director of the Non-Governmental Organisation for development of projects and research in culture and the arts “New Institute for Cultural Research” (since 2014), Senior Researcher at the Russian Film Institute-VGIK (since 2017), associated professor of the UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Culture and Inter-religious Dialogue (since 2010), teacher at Nikita Mikhalkov’s Academy for Cinematography and Theatre Arts (since 2016). Also, she is a programmer of the Eurasia International Film Festival (since 2017) and program director of Sochi International Film Festival and Awards (since 2017), producer.