Biography: Anastasiya Verykina, born in 1995 in Tula, Russia, graduated from Moscow's VGIK University in animated direction, attended V.A. Olshvang's workshop in the context of which she also made A Supermarket in California, and worked at the "Pchela" and "SMF Animation" studios. After One Day (2019) and Blind (2021), A Supermarket in California is his graduation short. He finds Allen Ginsberg, and his opus of lyrics, prose and poetry, a great source of inspiration.