Sakhamin Trofimov

Filmmaker from Yakutia.

Education:

2024 Un/Filmed, Education in school of documentary filmmaking, USA (The school’s partners include Indiana University Bloomington, Columbia University, and International Documentary Association, IDA.)

2024 East-West Talent Lab, (Documentary Film Lab), goEast IFF, Wiesbaden, Germany.

2023 DOCA (Documentary Association Georgia) Workshop, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2022 LetsDOC (Documentary Film Lab), Flahertiana IDFF, Perm, Russia.

2020 Docdocdoc, (School of Documentary Photography), Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Projects:

• 2025 Director of documentary “Songs of Duolan” 

- “Short Film Market Picks” at the 2025 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, selected from nearly 9,000 submitted films, with 346 films labeled. 

- Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival, Zurich. 

- Official selection of Artdocfest online 2025. 

- Hamburg’s Kinohafen Film Forum

• 2024 Producer of post-production “Yakutia Between The World” (Native Spirit Film Festival, London)
• 2023 Co-producer of documentary “Ded Moroz is searching for a future”
• 2022 Programmer Andrey Tarkovsky Film Festival “Zerkalo”, (Yakut film program)
  
• 2022 Distribution “In Limbo”, Alexander Hant
• 2021 Executive producer, “Aita”, S.Burnashev. 
• 2021 PR, distribution, sales, festivals,  “Yt”, dir. D. Davydov, S. Burnashev. Warsaw Film Festival
• 2020 PR, distribution, “Black Snow”, dir. S.Burnashev
• 2018  Production manager, “Cursed Land” dir. S.Burnashev

Skills:

• Management in film-production;
• Development and pitchings;
• Managment in filmschools;
• Marketing and PR-actions, organizing special screenings, distribution;
  
• Sales of the films;
• Festival agent.