Fedor Lyass

Born in Moscow in 1979, Fedor Lyass became one of Russia's top cinematographers soon after graduating from VGIK - a world famous film school attended by Andrei Tarkovsky among other legends of Soviet and Russian cinema. Lyass has since worked with many of the top Russian mainstream and independent directors and gained widespread recognition for his work. With technically innovative and modern visual style being his trademark he shot some of the most high-grossing films in local box-office, like soccer drama Trener (The Coach) and Soulless (a story of an atoned trader based on a bestselling novel by the same name). He has worked in different genres, being it a small-budget art film (I'll be around) or a period TV show (sixties-set Ottepel (The Thaw) is considered to be one of the best shows in Russian language to this day). Lyass has received many awards for his work, and after Hardcore Henry (2015), a first-person action film directed by Ilya Naishuller, was awarded the TIFF Midnight Madness People's Choice Award, Lyass has relocated to Los Angeles. In the US he has shot a crime thriller Awake, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, an arthouse romance Middleground, and sci-fi thriller AntiSocial.App. His most recent works are cyberpunk-styled limited TV series Darknet and a sci-fi called Free Fall, it's a one-actor space film about an astronaut lost in space. It was shot in on-set virtual production technology.