Anastasia Lapsui

• Name — Anastasia Lapsui • Born — 1944 • Birthplace — Nida, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug • Education — Ural State University • Occupation — film director, screenwriter, and radio journalist • Spouse — Markku Lehmuskallio

Anastasia Lapsui was born to a nomadic family in Nida, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, northwest of Siberia, in 1944. She graduated from Ural State University in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Early in her career, she was a radio reporter in the city of Salekhard, and also wrote screenplays. Together with her spouse, Markku Lehmuskallio, they have directed more than 10 films about the Nenets, the Sami, and other indigenous peoples from around the world. Of the movie Matkalla (On the Way), completed in 2007, Lapsui says:— "This movie has a special meaning to me. In it, I present my own view of the Nenets religion and the afterlife."

• 1993, Poron hahmossa pitkin taivaankaarta (editing, music, narrator, recording) • 1994, Kadotettu paratiisi (planning, Nenets / Finnish translations, editing, recording) • 1995, Jäähyväisten kronikka (editing) • 1997, Anna (directing, manuscript) • 1998, The Sacrifice: A Film About a Forest (directing, planning, recording, editing) • 1999, Seven Songs from the Tundra (directing, costume, cut, staging, manuscript) • 2001, Shepherd (directing, manuscript) • 2002, Mothers of Life (directing, editing, voice, songs) • 2003, A Bride of the Seventh Heaven (directing, costume, manuscript) • 2004, Fata Morgana (directing, editing, recording, manuscript) • 2006, The Sami (guidance, editing) • 2007, Matkalla (directing, screenplay, actor) • 2007, Nedarma - Travelling (directing, screenplay) • 2009, Earth Evocation • 2010, Pudana Last of the Line • 2012, 11 Images of a Human • 2015, Tsamo • 2017, Pyhä (credited as Anastasia Lapsuy)

Anastasia Lapsui is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as having received Finnish National Prize and Medal "For the Tapping of the Subsoil and Expansion of the Petrochemical Complex of Western Siberia".