Born in Belarus, Sergei Krasikau began his career in storytelling as a journalist for his nation's biggest independent newspaper.
Upon arriving in the US in 2000, Mr. Krasikau apprenticed to German filmmaker Karola Ritter, regular contributor to Maysles, Pennebaker and Barbara Kopple documentaries, on The Last Piece, a documentary feature on the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton.
Later credits include several projects with Mohammed Naqvi, US principal photography for Shame a SHOWTIME documentary on ritual gang rape in Pakistan, producing several highly succesfull short films, line producing several independent US and Russia-US co-production features for major Russian networks and studios.
Currently Sergei is producing several feature length documentaries. Among them - Garden In Transit: The Movie, a documentary about the ambitious public art project in NYC.
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