CHILDREN OF THE STATE
Nikita Tikhonov-Rau was born in Moscow in August 1980.
In 2003 he became a specialist in International Copyright and in 2006 he graduated from Higher Courses of Directors and Screenwriters (Moscow, Russia).
Having worked for television for 7 years he made a lot of documentaries. Among them mostly films, balancing on scientific, religious and philosophic topics, which the author himself calls "Documentary Blockbusters".
In 2011 together with Olga Arlauskas (his wife and co-producer) he founded a production company Artvideo Studio Ltd., based in Russia and Spain, specializing in TV-production and social issues creative film production.
Nikita Tikhonov-Rau
director
producer
In 2012 he became the vice-president of The Russian Guild of Documentary and TV (www.rgdoc.ru), managing documentary film distribution and non-commercial doc club releases in Russia.
Olga Arlauskas She was born on July 18, 1981 in Moscow.
In 1991 she moved to Spain, where she successfully completed her studies at the Faculty of Audiovisual Communication at the University of the Basque Country.
In 2004 she got a grant from Spanish government to study filmmaking and moved back to Russia. In 2006 she graduated as a documentary filmmaker from VKSR (Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors).
Since then she’d been working for Channel One Russia, Channel Kultura, Russia Today (Spanish version) and made nearly 20 documentary films in all possible doc genres from intimate doc portaits to prime-time TV-blockbusters.
Olga
Arlauskas
director
scriptwriter
producer
In 2011 together with Nikita Tikhonov-Rau she founded a production company Artvideo Studio Ltd., based both in Russia and Spain and specializing in creative documentary projects and TV-production.
Olga Arlauskas has been awarded by mostly all Russian (LAVR, ARTDOCFEST, STALKER etc) and some prestigious international Film Festivals (United Nations Film Festival in New York, V Russian Film Festival in New York etc) for her award-winning project «Labels» (26 min, 2011) Member of the Russian Documentay Guild.
Gayane Petrosyan
scriptwriter
producer
Gayane Petrosyan was born on June 7, 1975 in Abkhazia.
In 2002 graduated from Journalism Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Specialty: journalist.
In 2010 attended a series of master classes and lectures on motion pictures production in the Higher School of Journalism at the Higher School of Economics.
As a script writer of documentaries, Gаiane's interests focus on social life (problems of orphans and children from problem families, disabled people, inclusive education), ecology, environmental protection, and promotion of scientific knowledge on harmonized co-existence of humankind and nature.
Author of more than 15 documentaries. Participant and prize-winner of international- and regional film festivals. Cooperates with the UNO, Greenpeace and IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare). Fullmember of the Russian Geographic Society.