KATYA CHERNETSOVA
Casting Director & Talent Scout
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Casting director with 9+ years of experience across narrative film, commercials, fashion and music videos in the US, Russia and Europe.
Combines festival-recognized narrative work (Rotterdam, Venice Critics’ Week, Lucca) with high-volume commercial casting for global brands, specializing in actors, performers, street casting and real people.
Based in New York.
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MARTY SUPREME
PROJECT TYPE : FEATURE FILM
DIRECTOR : JOSH SAFDIE
ROLE: CASTING STREET SCOUT
Feature film starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Odessa A’zion; The film got Oscar nominated for the Best Casting 2026
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BUGONIA
PROJECT TYPE : FEATURE FILM
DIRECTOR : YORGOS LANTHIMOS
ROLE: FREELANCE CASTING SCOUT & RESEARCH @ JV8INC
Assisted JV8INC with a targeted search for an autistic actor for a key neurodivergent role, scouting and pre-screening talent in support of the core casting team
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EPICLESIS
PROJECT TYPE : SHORT FILM
DIRECTOR : SALOMON LIGTHELM
ROLE: FREELANCE CASTING SCOUT AND RESEARCH @ SIX WOLVES
Visually driven short film about faith, doubt and inner transformation, following a young priest torn between spiritual duty and human desire.
Supported Six Wolves Casting with research and street casting, focusing on sourcing Russian-speaking actors and real people.
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DON’T FORGET TO BREATH
PROJECT TYPE : SHORT FILM
DIRECTOR : NICHOLAS FREEMAN
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
A visual ode to stillness and breathing, Don’t Forget to Breathe moves through intimate vignettes of tension in everyday life where we can find quiet release. Without dialogue or product, it reframes advertising itself as an act of mindfulness, inviting viewers to pause, inhale, and return to the present.
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UNHOLY UNION
PROJECT TYPE : FASHION FILM
CLIENT : PLANTA ROSSA
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
Fashion film starring model Milla Rowyszyn and actor Johny Zitto
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DETOURS
PROJECT TYPE : EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE FILM
DIRECTOR : EKATERINA SELENCINA
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
A sprawling meditation on the choreography of bodies in Moscow's urban landscape, Detours depicts a new way of dealing illicit drugs via the Darknet, the layering of the physical and the virtual realities, as well as a poetics, and politics, of space.
Film premiered at Venice International Critics’ Week and received further recognition at Camden IFF and IndieLisboa.
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