Nika Belianina is a Toronto based award-winning filmmaker and photographer.
Moscow-raised, Toronto-based award-winning filmmaker Nika Belianina has been making fiction and documentary films since 2005. Her work has been screening at Oscar-qualifying, human rights, children, sci-fi and other film festivals around the world, such as Tribeca, Sheffield, Atlanta, Sao Paulo and much more. She writes, directs, occasionally edits and co-produces, effortlessly switching creative hats when needed. As an avid visual storyteller, Nika often serves as a camerawoman and has shot for the Federal Government of Canada, on the Indigenous territories in Canada, USA and Peru, for the BBC Studios, Ruptly.tv, Joss Whedon and others. Her personal and commissioned film projects took her to Chile, Georgia, Kenya, Mexico, Romania, Peru, USA and Canada.
Juror and a recipient of international artist residencies, Nika has taught film and photography to students in Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Ontario and Moscow. She shadowed directors on tv-series “The Wire” (HBO), “Taken” (NBC), “Private Eyes” (Global, eOne) and assisted Oscar-nominated director David France on “Welcome to Chechnya”. As a photographer, she showcased her critically acclaimed work at over 25 exhibitions in Canada, Belgium, Peru and the USA. Nika has MA in Social Psychology and prior to focusing on directing, has worked as a lighting technician and a props person on numerous tv-series, MOVs and features.
Write.Right Films is her production company, established in 2015.