ANGELINA PODOROZHNAYA
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER | LOS ANGELES
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER | LOS ANGELES
ANGELINA PODOROZHNAYA
DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTOR & PHOTOGRAPHER
DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTOR & PHOTOGRAPHER
Crafting cinematic documentaries and elevated visual storytelling. From intimate human stories to high-end branded films.
contact: +1 215 554 87 88 / angelinapodorozhnayawork@gmail.com
Visual Stories
Fragments of reality captured through a documentary lens. Each frame holds a story, blending raw moments with crafted beauty and visual storytelling.
Dagestan: Observed
An observational documentary exploration of life in the North Caucasus, focused on human connection, heritage, and the complexity of everyday life.
Fragments of larger documentary narratives — including festival-winning films — capturing real lives, social tension, and human depth.
Director’s Showreel
A selection of films and visual works exploring human stories, social realities, and intimate moments across cultures.
Nicotine Virginity
She dreams of love, but reality slowly reveals its darker edges.
An intimate portrait of a woman caught between illusion and truth — confronting addiction, violence, and the courage to choose her own future.
An intimate portrait of a woman caught between illusion and truth — confronting addiction, violence, and the courage to choose her own future.
Bans Are Trends
As repression intensifies, private life collapses into the public sphere.
The film follows a couple confronting discrimination and institutional pressure, revealing how identity, love, and resistance become inseparable.
The film follows a couple confronting discrimination and institutional pressure, revealing how identity, love, and resistance become inseparable.
Martha Is in August
A longing for motherhood is interrupted by loss that resists language.
Through intimate observation, the film traces a woman’s experience of grief, memory, and fragile resilience — where absence becomes a lasting presence.
Through intimate observation, the film traces a woman’s experience of grief, memory, and fragile resilience — where absence becomes a lasting presence.
Hospital Clown
Within the rigid structure of a hospital, moments of play become a form of care.
The film observes a clown working in a children’s oncology ward, where humor and presence create fragile spaces of relief amid illness.
The film observes a clown working in a children’s oncology ward, where humor and presence create fragile spaces of relief amid illness.
The Legalized Pain
After divorce, safety becomes uncertain and violence takes new forms.
The film follows women confronting systemic abuse and legal indifference, exposing how control persists beyond separation.
The film follows women confronting systemic abuse and legal indifference, exposing how control persists beyond separation.
Unfreedom
Domestic space becomes a site of control and endurance.
An observational account of women confronting violence, addiction, and loss — where the possibility of safety remains uncertain.
An observational account of women confronting violence, addiction, and loss — where the possibility of safety remains uncertain.
The King-Sized Big Tasty
To exist openly is already a form of protest.
An intimate portrait of a queer woman confronting marginalization, self-destruction, and resilience — holding on to small rituals in the face of hostility.
An intimate portrait of a queer woman confronting marginalization, self-destruction, and resilience — holding on to small rituals in the face of hostility.
Left Behind
In the aftermath of suicide, absence reshapes those who stay.
An observational study of grief and stigma, where language falters and healing remains uncertain.
An observational study of grief and stigma, where language falters and healing remains uncertain.
Six Billboards
In a landscape shaped by propaganda, a quiet act becomes a public statement.
The film follows a local activist transforming everyday space into a site of resistance — where visibility itself becomes a risk.
The film follows a local activist transforming everyday space into a site of resistance — where visibility itself becomes a risk.
Diva: Titanic Won’t Sink
Between office hours and stage lights, identity unfolds as performance.
An observational portrait of a drag artist living through contrast — where glamour, vulnerability, and social pressure intersect.
An observational portrait of a drag artist living through contrast — where glamour, vulnerability, and social pressure intersect.
The Wife
After more than fifty years together, love is redefined through illness.
An intimate portrait of a couple navigating ALS, where care, memory, and presence become the foundation of survival.
An intimate portrait of a couple navigating ALS, where care, memory, and presence become the foundation of survival.
He Had Gone to the Sea
After the loss of a child, memory becomes a space of ongoing presence.
Through intimate reflection, the film follows a mother navigating grief, where love, absence, and remembrance remain inseparable.
Through intimate reflection, the film follows a mother navigating grief, where love, absence, and remembrance remain inseparable.
I work with documentary film and photography, exploring human experience through observation, emotion, and cinematic storytelling. My practice moves between reality and crafted visual expression.
Angelina Podorozhnaya
Director & Photographer
+1-215-554-8788
angelinapodorozhnayawork@gmail.com
All text, photo, and video materials belong to their owners and are for demonstration purposes only. Please do not use them in commercial projects.
