{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F9fb95e9c-895f-4ed3-9ebe-cc7bf3d9ceb0","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"EZ29 Talking with We the Alien's Podcast host","description":"With her law degree and a passion for the film industry, she moved to Los Angeles with a Fulbright scholarship hoping to go back despite her dad\u2019s last-minute shocking advice. 10 years later, she is an independent film producer and writer of several documentaries as well as a podcaster on immigrant stories. In this episode, she talks about her journey and her difficulties as an immigrant in the film industry along with her passion for podcasting. \n\nBio: Sasha was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. After graduating from law school she started her career in a film production company based in Moscow. She served as head of the legal department and as a producer on the production of several feature films involving major Russian talent. \nIn 2010 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and came to Los Angeles to study film producing. She\u2019s been working as a producer since.\nBesides running the We The Aliens podcast, she is currently serving as an associate producer on a feature documentary Oleg about Oleg Vidov, the \u201cRobert Redford of Soviet Union,\u201c who defected from USSR in 1985.\nShe is also working on a documentary feature of her own - I Clown You, a film about clowns, who work in hospitals in Israel. Yeah, it\u2019s a thing.\nSasha holds a law degree from the State University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) and an MFA in Film Producing from the New York Film Academy (Los Angeles). She is a Fulbright Alumna\n\nLink to We the Alien\u2019s podcast: https://www.wethealienspod.com/links/\nTo read more about the I Clown you documentary visit: http://www.iclownyoudoc.com/\nTo Support I clown you project: https://www.documentary.org/project/i-clown-you\nSasha\u2019s Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/W24DX3Vln9o\nSasha\u2019s TikTok page: https://www.tiktok.com/@kapusterofficial?lang=en\n\nFind Empowering conversationZ podcast: https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/a0c67790-8e9f-49e5-9263-e68a36afaa3e/artworks-z8uxrq4ewdehgufz-0maehw-t3000x3000.jpg"}