Filmmaker
ZOYA ZADKIEL
director / writer / production designer
showreel.
artist’s bio.
Zoya is a Berlin-based filmmaker currently pursuing a BA in Film Production at Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology. With a background in fine arts, she began her creative journey as a comic artist before expanding into sculpture, animation, and DIY craft. These disciplines inform her visceral, tactile approach to filmmaking, particularly in her roles as Art Director and Production Designer.
As a queer trans woman raised in a conservative environment, Zoya’s work explores themes of identity, death, gender, systemic violence, and tenderness. Her films are deeply influenced by personal experience and offer bold, intimate perspectives on complex social realities.
Her filmmaking draws from punk, horror, queer cinema, and cinema novo; tools she uses to
disrupt and transform. Central to her work is the body as an archive and space as organism,
creating surreal and intimate worlds that invite audiences to feel what has been erased or
forgotten.
recent projects
production designer & set dresser.
TWIN
Writer & Director Nita Kvirikadze
TO BE FOUND
Writer & Director Dinh Quan Nguyen
sound designer & recordist.
PILLOW FORT
Writer & Director Atlas Sundvor
written & directed.
HYENA.
Credits
Production Manager Lola Love Chalmers DoP Nikoloz Meburishvili Gaffer Nikoloz Meburishvili, Zoya Nur Zadkiel Continuity Supervisor Ben Illes Sound Soul Pringle Production Design Zoya Nur Zadkiel Music Composer Zoya Nur Zadkiel Editor & Production Supervisor Zoya Nur Zadkiel
DOG’S EYE.
Credits
Written & Directed Ashlyn Fletcher, Zoya Nur Zadkiel Producer Lola Love Chalmers MUA Petra, Mennah Hannah Celeste, Yasmin Baker AD Lola Love Chalmers Location Manager Lola Love Chalmers Asst. Location Manager Anya Vakodr Production Manager Lola Love Chalmers Art Direction Zoya Nur Zadkiel DoP Daelan Dublado Set Designer Anya Vakodr, Zoya Nur Zadkiel, Greta Lapukhinas, Maria Gisele Royo, Arezu Khanicheh Gaffer Isabella Roublet, Simon Oblesack Editor Daelan Dublado Boom Operator Kolja Boldyrev, Nita Kvirikadze Production Supervisor Daelan Dublado Script Supervisor George Jenkins & Jeremy Lavon Music Composer Eli Nix, Koogan Extras Director Sumai Yahya, Ashlyn Fletcher, Zoya Nur Zadkiel
WOOD
PECKER.
credits
Production Manager Zoya Nur Zadkiel DoP Lola Love Chalmers Sound Daelan Dublado Production Design Zoya Nur Zadkiel Music Composer Zoya Nur Zadkiel Editor & Production Supervisor Zoya Nur Zadkiel
other projects…
producer & AD.
SOLITUDO
Writer & Director Anya Vakodr
DOP.
THE LAKE
Writer & Director Arezu Khanicheh
gaffer & asst. set dresser.
UNSIGHTED
Writer & Director Nick Chikovani