DDA Guest Lecture Series Spring 2026: Daria Kashcheeva

Daria Kashcheeva is an independent filmmaker based in Prague, Czech Republic, and a graduate of FAMU.

Her bachelor puppet animation Daughter (2019) experiments with handheld camera movement, which had never been used before in puppet animation. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where it won the Best Student Film award. It went on to receive over 100 awards, including the Student Academy Award, the Sundance Jury Award for Animation, and an Oscar nomination.

In her master’s film Electra (2023), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Daria combines live action and animation techniques. Working with actors and life-sized puppets, she explores themes of domestic violence, sexuality, and body perception, pushing the boundaries of the animated film genre.

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