Igor Smola is an independent filmmaker born in the Murmansk region of the USSR and has been based in Baku, Azerbaijan. His debut feature documentary, Trigger (2018), premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival. His films have been selected for Busan International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival, and Stockholm International Film Festival. My Name Is Oil won the Best Documentary Award at the Tehran International Short Film Festival. His short film It Lives Under the Snow premiered at Winterthur and competed at Tampere Film Festival and in the Lab Competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. It was shortlisted for the European Film Awards and screened at Telluride Film Festival.
