Igor Voloshin

• Name — Igor Voloshin • Birth Name — Igor Pavlovich Voloshin • Occupation — Actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, artist • Years Active — 2001–present

Igor Voloshin was born on 1 July 1974 in Sevastopol. He studied at a music school, majoring in guitar. He also practiced judo, becoming a candidate for master of sports. After finishing secondary school in 1991, he unsuccessfully attempted to enter a medical institute. In 1992, he began working at the youth dramatic "Theatre on Bolshaya Morskaya" as a cashier. Two months later he was accepted as an actor into the company. The same year, he entered the Sevastopol branch of the Yaroslavl Theater Institute. During his studies from 1993 to 1994, Voloshin participated in the punk band "Delicacies," and later—from 1996 to 1998—was the leader of the psychedelic jazz orchestra of the same name. In 1996, he graduated with a degree in "Theatre and film acting.” From 1997 to 1998, he worked as an actor, playwright, and director in a closed experimental laboratory at the theatre. In 1998, he entered VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography), initially the program of additional professional education in the screenwriting workshop of V. K. Chernykh and L. A. Chernykh. In 1999, he transferred to the workshop of author's film directing. He graduated from VGIK in 2000 with a degree in "Film directing.” At Sverdlovsk Film Studio he directed the short films Suka (2001, documentary) and Hunting Hares (2003, fiction). Starting in 2003, he worked as a location director on the reality show Golod ("Hunger"). The same year, together with Leonid Fyodorov of Auktyon, he participated in the recording of the album Gory i Reki ("Mountains and Rivers"). In 2004, Voloshin received the youth prize "Triumph". In 2005, the film Lips (Guby) was presented at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. The festival's Hubert Bals Fund awarded Voloshin and co-author Alexei Shipenko a grant to write a screenplay.

• 2003 – Odyssey. Year 1989 – Lens • 2013 – Fast Train: Moscow–Russia – “Koryesh” • 2021 – Kosa – Andreas, Eva’s father

• 2016 – Olga • 2017 – Fizruk (Season 4) • 2019 – The 1990s: Loud and Fun • 2021 – Kosa • 2022 – Snake-Handler

• 2011 – Bedouin • 2013 – Fast Train: Moscow–Russia • 2018 – The Basement

• 2001 – Suka (documentary)

• 2003 – Hunting Hares (short; based on Kenji Maruyama)

• 2008 – Nirvana • 2009 – Belyaev (co-directed with Nikolay Khomeriki) • 2009 – Olympius Inferno • 2009 – I Am • 2011 – Experiment 5ive (segment "Atlantika") • 2011 – Bedouin • 2013 – Fast Train: Moscow–Russia • 2018 – The Basement • 2021 – Possessed • 2022 – Lord of the Wind • 2022 – Medea • 2025 – The Wizard of the Emerald City • 2026 – Buratino

• 2003 – Hunting Hares (short; based on a story by Kenji Maruyama) • 2007 – Goat (short)

• 1999 – Mesivo • 2001 – Suka