Born in Moscow, Katia Khazak studied Cinema & Cultural Management in Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3. She started her career in programming, working at the French Embassy in Kazakhstan. In 2011, she joined Wide, a Paris-based international sales agent, handling the international rights to a catalog of independent films. She joined Aurora films in 2014 where she’s currently producing the Mongolian director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir. Her latest short won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Award for Best Short at the Toronto Film Festival, while her first feature will be shot this autumn. Katia Khazak also produced together with Charlotte Vincent Davy Chou’s “Return to Seoul”, and Wissam Charaf’s “Dirty Difficult Dangerous”, respectively selected in Cannes 2022 (Un Certain Regard) and Venice 2022 (Giornate degli Autori).
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
