Anna Baryshnikov is a second-gen immigrant hoping to triumph on a fashion design reality show, in director Nastasya Popov’s ...

Director Nastasya Popov's feature debut 'Idiotka' is a hilariously heartfelt reminder that immigrants make America (and ...

Premiering at SXSW, writer-director Nastasya Popov's film stars Anna Baryshnikov as an aspiring fashion designer who gets ...

Idiotka' director Nastasya Popov and stars Anna Baryshnikov and Camila Mendes dissected the story's themes and what drew them ...

Nastasya PopovLogline: In West Hollywood's Russian immigrant district, Margarita lives out the American Dream: competing on a ...

Nastasya Popov, who wrote and directed Idiotka, impressed Fox with her persistence. Popov showed up to a book signing for Fox ...

In the earnest comedy-drama Idiotka, Anna Baryshnikov plays Margarita Levlansky, a young budding fashion designer living with her grandmother, father and brother in a tiny apartment in West ...

“I would describe my aesthetic as Old World trash and treasure,” says Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), a few minutes into Idiotka. “She’s milking a cow at five, but she needs to be at the ...

“Then Anna Baryshnikov, our lovely star, read a draft a year in, and she really sparked to the story. Then we spent another year developing it from there. And then we shot a sizzle in the apartment ...

“I would describe my aesthetic as Old World trash and treasure,” says Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), a few minutes into Idiotka. “She’s milking a cow at five, but she needs to be at the ballet at 5:10.