Natalya Kasyanova graduated from Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s School of Documentary Film and Theatre in 2015. She oversaw the visual research laboratory for the “Gorod Svoimi Rukami” city project (Khanty-Mansiysk, 2016) and also took part in a residency for documentary filmmakers at the Iskra festival (Kazan, 2016), and the 2017 exhibition “Vzlyot. Vystavka-prognoz” at VDNKh in Moscow. She is the curator of the project DK, a cycle of screenings of topical documentary work in the city of Vladimir. In 2018 she was part of the team for the Selo documentary theatre camp in Khanty-Mansiysk in Siberia.