Elizabeth Rakhilkina, an alumna of New York University, is a filmmaker whose Chekhovian screen adaptation short film Sleepy won the Best Female Director award in Moscow Indie Film Festival. Born and raised in a Russian province, schooled in South England, and currently residing in Texas, Elizabeths's work has been screened in festivals across America, Europe, and Africa. Her artistic voice is informed by her expatriate experience and marked by her interest in the bizarre, queer, marginal, and paradoxical complications of human existence.