Maria Pevchikh

Head, Investigative Unit

Maria Pevchikh is the head of the investigation department at the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a Russian non-profit organization founded by opposition politician Alexei Navalny to investigate and expose the cases of corruption among the Russian elites. During her eleven years of work, she authored over a hundred investigations, most famously of Vladimir Putin’s private palace on the Black Sea which received over 120 million views on YouTube.

Participating Sessions

OPENING CONVERSATION: THE MAKING OF NAVALNY

Arguably one of the most riveting works of investigative cinema in recent years, Navalny takes us inside the research process like no other. We are familiar with the headlines: In August 2020, Russian anti-corruption campaigner and former presidential candidate, Alexei A. Navalny, was poisoned with a military grade nerve agent while on a trip to Siberia and narrowly escaped with his life.   Daniel Roher, a young documentary filmmaker from Toronto, seized...