Valeriya Guy Germanika, film director
Valeriya Guy Germanika (her real name is Valeria Dudinskaya) is a film director, screenwriter and camerawoman. She gained wide popularity after the release of her first television series School.
Cute girl was born on March 1, 1984 in Moscow. You know, she has changed her middle name and surname. Her father’s name is Igor Dudinskiy. Valeria didn’t go to school, she studied at home.
By the way, she graduated from the Internews School of Film and Television.
Germanika’s second film Girls got a prize for best short film at festival program Kinotavr. The film was shown at the 59th Cannes Film Festival. And at the age of 24 she was named Russian Larry Clark.
The next film Birthday of the Infanta entered the main competition of Kinotavr. Her movie Everybody Dies But Me was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Then it was shown at the Golden Camera contest and was awarded a Special Mention (Mention Speciale) for the best film. In addition, the film director was awarded Nika for the film Everybody Dies But Me in 2009.
In 2009, Valeriya together with Thrash Chapiteau Kutch and Peter Listerman recorded a song.
By the way, in 2010, Germanika was a creative director on MTV Channel, but at the end of the year she was dismissed.
In 2012 she was an actress in the film Entropy by Maria Sahakyan.
Later, in 2014, she made a video for the song The Minded Wolf by the group Meaningful Hallucinations. In 2014, she was awarded Silver Saint George at the Moscow Film Festival for Best Director (film Yes and Yes).
Also in 2014, the director shot a four-part melodrama May Ribbons, which tells about the life and friendship of three women. The name of the mini-series was in honor of the poem by Arthur Rimbaud.
Personal life
To tell the truth, Valeria is a vegetarian.
Germanika dated Gleb Samoilov, ex-leader of the Russian rock band Agatha Christie.
On March 13, 2008 Valeriya gave birth to her daughter Octavia.
Awesome girl married Vadim Lubushkin, participant of the project Dancing with the Stars, on July 11, 2015. However, they divorced four months after the wedding. On April 22, 2016 she gave birth to her daughter Severina.
Her official site
Valeriya Guy Germanika, film director
Valeria is fond of art. Just have a look at her paintings. As we can see wolves and foxes are her favorite animals.