EZ29 Talking with We the Alien's Podcast host

With her law degree and a passion for the film industry, she moved to Los Angeles with a Fulbright scholarship hoping to go back despite her dad’s last-minute shocking advice. 10 years later, she is an independent film producer and writer of several documentaries as well as a podcaster on immigrant stories. In this episode, she talks about her journey and her difficulties as an immigrant in the film industry along with her passion for podcasting. Bio: Sasha was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. After graduating from law school she started her career in a film production company based in Moscow. She served as head of the legal department and as a producer on the production of several feature films involving major Russian talent. In 2010 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and came to Los Angeles to study film producing. She’s been working as a producer since. Besides running the We The Aliens podcast, she is currently serving as an associate producer on a feature documentary Oleg about Oleg Vidov, the “Robert Redford of Soviet Union,“ who defected from USSR in 1985. She is also working on a documentary feature of her own - I Clown You, a film about clowns, who work in hospitals in Israel. Yeah, it’s a thing. Sasha holds a law degree from the State University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) and an MFA in Film Producing from the New York Film Academy (Los Angeles). She is a Fulbright Alumna Link to We the Alien’s podcast: https://www.wethealienspod.com/links/ To read more about the I Clown you documentary visit: http://www.iclownyoudoc.com/ To Support I clown you project: https://www.documentary.org/project/i-clown-you Sasha’s Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/W24DX3Vln9o Sasha’s TikTok page: https://www.tiktok.com/@kapusterofficial?lang=en Find Empowering conversationZ podcast: https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz