A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Born:
March 15, 1998
Nika Zhukova is a Russian-Dominican animation film director and visual artist. She holds a fine arts and illustration degree from Chavon la Escuela de DiseƱo and a BA in animation from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, where she specialized in stop motion techniques. Nika's distinctive storytelling and artistic vision are showcased in her acclaimed short films, including "the Body" (2021), "Us" (2022), and the award-winning "Heart Hug" (2023), which garnered the best animated short film award at the Jerusalem film festival 2024. Her work has been featured in numerous international festivals and exhibitions, including the Monstra animation festival of Lisbon, Fest Anca, and Lago Film Fest, among others.
Animation:
2025 Olivia & the Clouds
Director:
2024 Heart Hug
2025 Olivia & the Clouds
Screenplay:
2024 Heart Hug
2025 Olivia & the Clouds
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.