Alina Simone (Director/DP/Producer) is a Ukrainian-born journalist and filmmaker whose work has
appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian Long Read, California Sunday, Slate, and
NPR, among many others. Her articles have been featured on best-of lists in The Atlantic, NPR and Rolling
Stone, and have been optioned for film by major studios. She is the author of an essay collection and a
novel, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and has taught writing at Yale University. Simone is the
recipient of the Andrew Berends Film Fellowship, an NYSCA/NYFA Film Fellowship and the Mountainfilm
Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. Black Snow is her first film.