MARIA KASTSIUKOVICH

Residence:

Residencies SDK

Scriptwriter, cinema and media researcher, writer, journalist.
Born in 1986. The author of numerous documentary and fiction films screenplays, stories. In 2020 published the non-fiction book “The Seance for Children”, summed up her research of Belarusian film narratives for youngsters. Focuses on how the reality affects the ways we tell stories and what kind of stories are created by each new epoch of Belarusian history. As the stories Belarusian reality creates has become too complicated to be explored with cinema, juornalistic and scientific methods, they need more powerful and perfect methods of literature. This is the main reason to attend the literary residency.