Dima Barch (Barchenkov) was born in 1998 (Moscow). He graduated from MSU as a journalist and almost finished HSE as a filmmaker. Dima had been working as a film journalist and film critic for more than nine years. A lifelong genre-film lover, he wrote and directed his short film debut, "Dead End", which screened internationally, and the pilot of "The Moon" an unrealized TV series in the dark comedy genre. His full-length horror script called “Absence” was selected by European Genre Forum 2022.