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"I have been blessed being Aya's student for over 8 years and I have learned a lot to help me in my everyday life. Drama lessons with such a thoughtful, caring, and instructive teacher has changed me for the better in every discipline. Aya is an incredible mentor as she guided me positively onstage and beyond. Thank you Aya for the years I have spent learning the art of theater with you." - Sasha

"I want to thank Aya for all that she has done for me; as an acting teacher, a spiritual guide, and a life mentor. She has helped me overcome many barriers in my life and guided me into full bloom. As a teenager, she was my acting teacher, and my main role model. She opened me up to a new world and taught me how to make my dream world my reality. She helped me gain confidence and taught me to believe in the magic that lies inside of me. She has a unique gift of spreading happiness and shinning her bright light onto everyone around her. Aya is also a very talented artist and puts her heart into every piece of art work. I have a collection of her paintings and graphic art that heals me and reminds me of the light inside me. Every piece of art comes with a spiritual purpose and meaning for the situation that I am going through or need reminding of.

I am very grateful for meeting a person of so much light, and I hope that she will continue to spread her light to many more people" -Avital

NATASHA Interview with Author and Filmmaker David Bezmozgis

 

16-year old Mark (Alex Ozerov) is the son of Russian- Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with a woman from Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada with her fourteen year-old daughter, Natasha (Sasha K. Gordon). Mark, a slacker, is conscripted by his parents to take responsibility for the strange girl. He learns that, in Moscow, she’d led a troubled and promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden romance begins between the two of them that has bizarre and tragic consequences for everyone involved

Nationalpost: David Bezmozgis’ Natasha is a Greek tragedy in the making

David Bezmozgis’ Natasha is a Greek tragedy in the making

 

I wasn’t the biggest fan of Toronto writer/director David Bezmozgis’ feature debut, 2009’s Victoria Day. But seven years can have a salutary effect on a filmmaker – either that or Bezmozgis chose more wisely in his subject matter, this time adapting the popular short story of the same name that helped launch his literary career.

 

 

Straight.com Wised-up Natasha has bittersweet edge

Wised-up Natasha has bittersweet edge

 

The aspirations and heartbreak of the immigrant experience are captured with bittersweet precision in Natasha, a second adaptation by writer-director David Bezmozgis of his own, award-winning work. The still-young novelist covered some of this territory, more tentatively, in 2009’s Victoria Day. His visual storytelling is only somewhat improved here, but his insightful dialogue and talent for apt casting give the new movie enough sharp edges to make it memorable on most levels.

Hollywoodreporter: 'Natasha': Film Review

'Natasha': Film Review 

 

A teenage boy begins an affair with his younger, Russian step-cousin in David Bezmozgis' adapation of his acclaimed short story collection.

NYTimes: In the Disturbing ‘Natasha,’ Sex and Manipulation

Review: In the Disturbing ‘Natasha,’ Sex and Manipulation

 

“Natasha” is about as twisted and uncomfortable a coming-of-age film as you’re likely to find, with a startlingly manipulative teenager, the title character, at its center.

The story, written and directed by David Bezmozgis based on his own book, is set among the Russian immigrant population in the suburbs of Toronto, where a 16-year-old, Mark (Alex Ozerov of “The Americans”), delivers drugs for a local dealer while his clueless parents (Deanna Dezmari and Genadijs Dolganovs) nag him to get a job. Mark’s summer is disrupted, to say the least, when an uncle imports a bride (Aya-Tatyana Stolnits) from Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/movies/natasha-review.html?_r=0