Born in Belarus, NY based award winning hands-on producer/upm/line and non-fiction cinematographer with over 5 years in US media industry and dozens of successful films, 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 feature doc and narrative films, many highly succesfull shorts, PSAs, theater/dance
performances, corporate/music videos. Strong international experience collaborating with filmakers and producers from dozens of countries, including major production companies in Russia and India.

Unique combination of knowledge - cinematographer, narrative/doc producer and non-fiction director. Creative, intuitive and robustly realistic, he knows how to conceive, develop, execute and bring projects to completion, magic intact.

Currently Sergei is producing several feature length documentaries and developing narrative films. Among them - Bloom City, a documentary about the ambitious public art project in NYC and Bigger Than The Beatles, a feature doc about Obama's inauguration.