Anya Bernstein is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. Having never left her native Russia prior to the age of 17, she then immigrated to the United States. Since then, sparked by her burgeoning fascination with cultural alterity, she has visited about 40 countries while managing to squeeze in various university degrees (see CV). Over the last ten years, she has worked and studied in India, Russia, France, England, the US, and has spent extensive periods of time traversing both North and South Asia for her fieldwork, films, and drifting.