ANNA PATARAKINA FSF          
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Anna Patarakina – Bio – May 2025 

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I'm a Russian-born, London-based Director of Photography working across film, television, and music videos.

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Right now, I'm in Budapest shooting Ponies, a new Peacock series starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson. The show is directed by Susanna Fogel and Viet Nguyen and produced by NBC Universal Television.

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Earlier this year, my latest feature film, Dreamers, premiered in the Panorama section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Directed by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor in her directorial debut, the film was nominated for both the Panorama Audience Award and the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film.

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In 2024, I shot three episodes of Down Cemetery Road, an Apple TV+ thriller starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, directed by Sam Donovan.

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The year before, I was the lead DP on the Paramount+ psychological thriller Insomnia (six episodes), produced by Left Bank and directed by Börkur Sigthorsson.

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Other recent projects include Boat Story for BBC One, where I reunited with director Alice Troughton after our work together on The Lesson—a psychological thriller starring Daryl McCormack, Richard E. Grant, and Julie Delpy, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022.

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Also in 2022, I shot episodes 6 and 7 of the Sky original The Midwich Cuckoos, directed by Börkur Sigthorsson and based on John Wyndham’s novel The Village of the Damned.

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My earlier TV credits include Get Even (episodes 1–2, dir. Sarah Walker) and The One (episodes 4–6, dir. Jeremy Lovering) for Netflix.

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I began my career in Sweden after graduating from VGIK (the All-Russian State University of Cinematography) in Moscow, where I studied from 2007 to 2012. I spent six years working in the Scandinavian indie film scene and became a member of the FSF (Swedish Society of Cinematographers).

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My debut feature, How to Stop a Wedding (dir. Drazen Kuljanin), was shot in six hours on a train from Malmö to Stockholm and won Best Debut at the Warsaw International Film Festival. I later worked with Drazen again on Balkan Noir (2017).

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Other feature work includes Zoo (dir. Antonio Tublén), which premiered at Sitges, and Breaking Surface (dir. Joachim Heden), a survival thriller partially filmed in Europe’s largest underwater set.

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I also have an ongoing collaboration with Clean Bandit, which began with their early video Mozart’s House and continued through ten music videos—including the Grammy-winning Rather Be, as well as Rockabye, Symphony, and several tour documentaries. Notably, the videos for Rockabye and Symphony were nominated for British Video of the Year at the BRIT Awards in 2017 and 2018.

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I currently live in London and am represented by the Worldwide Production Agency (WPA).