Anastasia Patlay

 
director, playwright, mentor, art director, curator.

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Un/Told


A Practical Online Documentary Playwriting Course
educator

USA, 2024
Online worldwide, 2025

Co_tutors — Ekaterina Bondarenko, Elizaveta Spivakovskaya
A documentary playwriting course was held from May to July 2024 under the guidance of Anastasia Patlay, resulting in nine new documentary plays written in Russian by authors from seven different countries: Georgia, Armenia, Israel, Latvia, Germany, Serbia, and Montenegro.


Photo: screenshots from the workshop
The plays, created at the course:  

Udmurt as a Native Language,
Lena Belyaeva:  
About the lost native language, as well as who is to blame and what (not) to do.

Into the Last Car, Alexandra Berenstein:  
About how the mothers of transgender people shelter and save their children from the clutches of the Russian army, government, and homophobic society.

Run Forrest Run, Anna Getman:  
About escape and desertion as a feat: refusing to kill people, associated with enormous risk of persecution.

My Red Nose, Ilya Domanov:  
About the work of medical clowns in the "Barzilai" hospital, located in Ashkelon, near the Gaza border.

The World Tried to Catch Me, but Did Not, Veronika Zhuravleva:  
What is the price of personal freedom in an unfree country, and how the genius contemporary Sergey Parajanov remains in the memory of others.

Bad Buryat Good, Karina Pronina:  
About why the myth of "Putin's fighting Buryats" appeared in Russia and how it is transforming now.

Open Relationships, Igor Sergeev:  
Doc-dramedy about the love of two emigrant guys in Munich.

The Timofeevs and Death, Andrey Timofeev:  
About several generations of a Latvian Russian family against the backdrop of great history.

It's Time to Leave, Polina Shipina:  
About the turning points of history that force a person to act.


Un/Told showed a keen interest in documentary theater, so next year the UnFilmed school plans to repeat this course.

PartnersUn/Filmed, USA