Daria Kascheeva

Daria Kashcheeva was born in 1986. From 8 years old played the piano. In 2007 graduated Moscow Music College like a piano player and in 2012 graduated Moscow Academy of music like a sound engineer.

8 years Daria worked as sound designer in several famous Moscow theatres such as the Moscow Art Theatre and the Satiricon theater.

In 2013 she felt in love with animation, began to experiment with stop motion at home and decided to try to enter the FAMU in Prague.

In 2015 she was accepted to the Animation department at FAMU. Her student films featured at many international festivals. Daria’s original To Accept won the Nespresso Talents 2017 film competition in Cannes.

In Daughter, her Bachelor’s puppet animation, Daria experiments with camera motion and explores the topic of father-daughter relationship. The hand-held camera movement she uses in the film was never used in stop motion animation before and helps the viewers to dive deeper to the human drama. The film shows the miscommunication between a daughter and a father, those two who are gradually growing apart even though they care each other.

In 2019 Daughter had a premiere at Annecy Animation Film Festival in and got Cristal for the best Student film and Young Jury award in Student film section. Daughter has got more than 100 awards including the Best of Fantoche, the Sundance Animation Jury Award, the Hiroshima International Animation Festival Grand Prix, the Student Academy Award in the category Animation (International Film Schools) and was nominated to the 92nd Oscar.

In her master degree film Electra (2023), which was premiered in Cannes and got the Best Short film award at the Toronto International Film Festival, she experiments with a combination of live action and animation techniques. Working with actors and human sized puppets, exploring a topic of domestic violence, sexuality and body perception, Daria aims to extend the limits of animation film genre. 

Currently, Daria is developing her debut full-length project, They/Them, in which she continues to explore hybrid forms and genres.

Filmography

Electra (2023)

Daughter / Dcera (2019)

Oasis / Oáza (2017) 

In a Dumpster / V popelnici (2017) 

To Accept (2017)

Prague. A foreigners' perspective / Praha očima cizinců (2017