Resume

SKILLS:

Art and Technology: 2D animation, motion design, animation principles, video editing, storyboarding, prompt engineering, illustration, graphic design, up-to-date knowledge of the latest generative models

Journalism and Linguistics: profound experience in analytical/creative writing and interviewing/ radio reporting (English, Russian, Dutch), research and information analysis (English, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch, Spanish, French), solid academic knowledge of theoretical linguistics, English linguistics and language development, up-to-date knowledge of the latest LLMs

Proficient in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Runway

Sophia KORNIENKO

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Work Experience

founder, Unschooling Future studio (independent animated shorts and comics)

2020 - present

The Netherlands/ BeNeLux correspondent, writer, analyst, radio documentary maker at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: http://www.svoboda.org/; http://www.rferl.com/

contributed to NPO Radio 1, NRC Handelsblad, Een Vandaag, StudioMAX Live, Andere Ogen, Radio Netherlands/ Wereldomroep, Time Out Amsterdam and other Dutch newspapers, magazines, radio and tv programs

2005 - 2019

intern, Research Department, The Netherlands Film Museum

staff writer, The St.Petersburg Times (English language newspaper, circulation 35,000, now shut down, branch of The Moscow Times), St.Petersburg, Russia

2004

contracted reporter, weekly Transitions On Line, Prague, Czech Republic

intern, daily online publication The United Nations Wire, National Journal, Alexandria, VA, USA: http://www.unfoundation.org

1999

Filmography

producer (The Netherlands), Kartinny Vopros ('The Paintings Issue'), a television documentary on the mysterious smuggling of priceless Russian avant-garde to Amsterdam in the early 1990's and the whereabouts of the collection after its owner Nikolai Khardzhiev died. Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam now has the largest Malevich collection in the world, maybe for the better? Russia, Ren-TV, 22 min

2007

2006

director, Rene, a Kodachrome short about an Amsterdam homeless, The Netherlands, 15 min.

director, The Eternal Second, a short compiled out of slow-motion found footage, The Netherlands, 7 min (shown at The 8th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival in Ankara in 2005)

2005

scriptwriter, Poslednyaya Skazka ('The Last Fairy-Tale'), a documentary about a psychiatrist who uses theatre therapy to treat hospice patients, Russia, St.Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, 20 min

2004

Education

2022 - 2022

training in visual storytelling, scriptwriting, storyboarding and motion design for human-centered design and innovation, Storytelling For Innovation Accelerator

Intensive training in motion design, including fundamental principles of design for motion and (character) animation, mastering Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator, finishing a wide spectrum of student projects (artboards and short 2D animations), School of Motion

2020 - 2021

Dual Professional MA degree in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, Department of Media and Culture, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2004 - 2006

MA degree cum laude in English Linguistics and Interpreting at St.Petersburg State University, Faculty of Linguistics. St.Petersburg, Russia

1996 - 2002

Scandinavian Area Studies (Scandinavian Art and Film, Danish, Scandinavian History, Scandinavian Model), Syddansk Universitet/Odense Universitet (University of Southern Denmark/Odense University), Odense, Denmark

1999

Institute on Political Journalism (Economics for Journalists, Media Ethics), The Fund for American Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

1999

Institute of Economic and Political Studies. Joint program: Georgetown University, Washington DC, Charles University, Prague and the Fund for American Studies, Washington DC. Prague, Czech Republic

1998