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 (2026)
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 (2025)
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 (2025)
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 (2025)
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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JINX AND BABBIT (2025)
PROJECT TYPE: SHORT FILM
DIRECTOR: MAXX EVAN
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
Jinx & Babbitt follows a gay couple whose relationship is quietly tested when their shared fantasy of the future begins to fracture. As expectations surface and unspoken differences come into focus, love is challenged not by conflict, but by misalignment.
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THE INTERVIEW (2025)
PROJECT TYPE: SHORT FILM
DIRECTOR: DARIA POTEMKA
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
A story about how life proves that even if you did everything right, it guarantees you nothing
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WRITER’S BLOCK (2025)
PROJECT TYPE: SHORT FILM
DIRECTOR: SEAN CROFT
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
A musician's writer's block manifests as a surreal nightmare when she is forced to perform for a hellish audience.
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SASHA (2022)
PROJECT TYPE: FEATURE FILM
DIRECTOR: VLADIMIR BECK
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
Fifteen-year-old Sasha moves in with her father, practically a stranger she hasn’t seen in years; neither of them is happy about the situation. To protest a decision made by adults, Sasha shaves her head and runs away from home. Lost and with her hair cut short, she is mistaken for a boy by Maxim and Mysh, two local boys.
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DETOURS (2021)
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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I AM NOT AFRAID (2022)
PROJECT TYPE: SHORT FILM
DIRECTOR: VLADIMIR BECK
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
I Am Not Afraid is a 2022
short film directed by Vladimir Beck that explores the relationship between two childhood friends, Misha and Philip, as they face separation when one moves to another city. It is recognized as a brave LGBTQ-themed film produced in Russia
Starring Mark Eyeldeshteyn (Anora 2024) and Illarion Marrov.
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SUND OG (2020)
PROJECT TYPE: SHORT FILM
DIRECTOR: DORIAN JESPERS
ROLE: CASTING DIRECTOR
Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.
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