Bio

Alexey Marfin (1990) is a film director and visual effects supervisor, working between Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
 
Alexey’s films have screened worldwide – at the Busan Film Festival, Kaohsiung VR Film Lab, Brooklyn Film Festival, and many more. He has worked with brands such as Mercedes-Benz, the Royal Opera House, and Nike – and with artists such as CL, St. Vincent, and Jackson Wang. His VR film ‘Kowloon Forest’ won ‘Best Live Action VR’ at the Vancouver Film Festival, and he has been acclaimed in both Western and Asian media, including VICE, NOWNESS, Ming Pao Weekly, City Magazine (HK), RTHK, Time Out, and others.
 
Born in Leningrad in the USSR, Alexey emigrated to the UK in the mid-1990s. He studied at the Architectural Association in London, where he became interested in designing worlds for film. He began his filmmaking career as a visual effects artist at the Sundance-award-winning studio Factory Fifteen, before directing his own films.
 
Alexey has also taught and lectured internationally – including MIT, UCLA, City University of Hong Kong, National Chiao Tung University, Tsinghua University, and the Royal College of Art. He co-founded the Fiction & Entertainment Masters program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, which works with collaborators from Framestore, Sundance, Netflix, and more.
 
CV available on request.

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