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Filmmaker, cinematographer, and director. As a cinematographer, he has shot approximately 1,000 music videos and promotional clips. His work can also be seen for the fashion brands Zarina and Idol, as well as the jewelry brands Alrosa and Pozzi, among others. As a director, Alexey has created numerous commercials and music videos for well-known brands and companies, including Sber, VTB, Alfa-Bank, and Ozon, as well as automotive brands such as Haval, Mercedes, Mazda, Kia, and Toyota. He actively collaborates with Russian stars including Basta, Zivert, Dima Bilan, Polina Gagarina, Egor Kreed, Natalia Vodianova, and many others. He has also worked in Western markets, shooting advertising for Beats and World of Tanks. His filmography includes several feature films and series, among them Last Quest (2023), Rails-Rails, Sleepers-Sleepers (2020), MiniMax (2020), Alla Pugacheva: That Very Concert (2019), Not Guilty (2018), and Gazgolder: Club Era (2018). One of his recent works is Dima Bilan’s music video “Bitter Rain” (2023).

Music video director, producer, and director, working through his own company, Serghey Grey Production. He is the regular director for singer Mari Kraimbreri; their collaboration began with the music video “Davai Navsegda” and continues to this day. Grey’s videos “Alkogolichka” and “Zatsepila” for Artur Pirozhkov amassed more than 500 million views between 2019 and 2021. Over a 10-year career, he has directed more than 300 music videos and 150 live concert performances. His works include “Zatsepila,” “Na Tatu,” “Pryatalas v Vannoy,” and many others. That same year, Grey and Lindemann released the 22-minute video “Ich Hasse Kinder,” which received acclaim from audiences and critics, along with a number of awards and nominations. Sergey Grey has also collaborated with Polina Gagarina and Emin (the video “V Nevesomosti”), Zivert (“Anesteziya”), Olga Buzova and Nastya Kudri (“Nam Budet Zharko,” “Prinimai Menya”), the group Vintage (“Novaya Zhizn,” “Lalaland”), Irina Dubtsova and Leonid Rudenko (“Moskva-Neva”), Sogdiana (“Samyy Luchshiy Den”), Natan (“Dovela,” “Tratit”), Alexander Buinov (“Utonuvsheye Nebo”), the group Fabrika (“Mogla Kak Mogla”), Katya Lel (“Pridumala”), Alina Artts (“High Enough”), and Olga Romanovskaya (“Ptitsa”), as well as with foreign performers. For the past two years, he has also served as mentor to five national teams in the Music track of the Team Competitions, coordinating the teams’ work, participating in pitching sessions, and serving as a judge.

Russian designer, director, and producer. Recipient of numerous national and international awards and prizes. Academician of the Russian Television Academy “TEFI.” Founder of the SHANDESIGN studio. Instructor of the discipline “Directing” at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ISI). Instructor of the discipline “Design in the Digital Environment” at the Business and Design Institute (B&D). Trustee of the Moscow International Graphic Design Biennale “Golden Bee.” Author of the visual identities of most federal Russian television channels and of branding for various companies. Production designer for well-known federal television projects. Creator of advertising campaigns, documentary films, and television projects.

Composer, producer, head of the Film Music Association of the Russian Musical Union, member of the Board of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, and head of the REC Film Music Laboratory. Member of the Expert Council of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives. Member of the jury of the All-Russian Competition for Young Composers “Partitura.” Composer of the music for the films Kholop, Kholop 2, Mr. Knockout, The Humpbacked Horse, T-34, Palma, Attraction, Salyut-7, Phantom, and others.

Media producer and expert in prompt engineering and the creative industries, whose work lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence technologies and digital art. Founder of Russia’s first international AI-generated film competition, “MyFilm48”; Director of the “Creative Industries” track at ALRII; creative producer of the Pitching for Regional Film Startups; and CEO of Studio Prospekt (production of audiovisual and generative content). Author of courses and lectures on the use of neural networks in multimedia content creation; creator of the viral AI videos “Our Mars” and “Harry Potter and the Hammer of War,” and AI artist for the OKKO documentary series Ghosts: The Nature of Fear. Co-founder of technology startups applying AI, including Neuroscanner and the “NeuroSat” project.

Founder and Head of KRYOLAN Professional Makeup Russia. Originator, organizer, and moderator of the Russian Makeup and Special Effects Conference “MakeSFX,” dedicated to the exchange of experience and the presentation of current and in-demand technologies in makeup and special effects.

Founder of the “Art of Makeup” department at GITIS — the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. Founder and Head of KRYOLAN Professional Makeup Russia. Originator, organizer, and moderator of the Russian Makeup and Special Effects Conference “MakeSFX,” dedicated to the exchange of experience and the presentation of current and in-demand technologies in makeup and special effects.

Film editor, director, screenwriter, and creative producer; member of the Guild of Film Directors and the Union of Cinematographers; instructor of the “Film Editing” program at the Moscow School of Cinema. Instructor of the editing course at VGIK (the Russian State Institute of Cinematography). Four-time recipient of the “Golden Eagle” award in the category of Best Film Editing, for the films We Are from the Future, Brest Fortress, Battalion, and Salyut-7. Laureate of an award from the Association of Film and Television Producers (APKiT) and of the Mumbai International Film Festival for editing; recipient of an award at the Venezuelan International Film Festival for the film Podolsk Cadets.