Daria
Mozhaeva

A director of fiction and hybrid projects. She works with traditional shooting and with generative technology, using AI for single shots, whole scenes and fully generated projects.

The visual language rests on a realistic, observational camera, natural behaviour from the characters and attention to the detail of the environment. Even when working with AI, the sense of real cinema has to hold: coherent space, characters, camera movement and editing.

She takes a project from the idea and the script through to visual development and direction: storyboards and previsualisation, developing characters and spaces, shooting live-action scenes and joining traditional footage with generated images.

Besides directing, she is an entrepreneur and the founder of a research agency. That research background makes it quick to get into a new subject, to understand the client’s brief and to find a precise visual solution.

Before film she spent five years at Yandex. Her first degree is in power engineering.