Valeriya Gay Germanika，This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Igorevna/Alexandrovna and the family name is Dudinskaya/Germanika. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Valeriya Gai Germanika. Valeriya Gai Alexandrovna Germanika (Russian: Валерия Гай Александровна Германика, born Valeriya Igorevna Dudinskaya (Russian: Вале́рия И́горевна Дуди́нская); born 1 March 1984, Moscow) is a Russian film director dedicated to the topics of coming-of-age. She was awarded multiple awards for the feature film Everybody Dies But Me. Born to a Bohemian Moscow family[3] and trained at the Internews Cinema and Television School, Valeriya started directing at age nineteen. Her second film The Girls and subsequent The Birthday of the Infanta (both documentary) appeared at the Kinotavr film festival.[4] In the beginning of 2010, Channel One aired Valeriya Gai Germanika's 69-episode TV-series School portraying teenagers life in an ordinary Moscow school.[5] Valeriya has been the creative director for MTV Russia in 2010.