“…ANTI-mainstream, transgressive, and a sheer avant-garde spectacle.”
-Planet Cinema
Anything You Lose
Anything You Lose is an intimate journey through the maze of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and into the depths of the silence of infertility. Earning a Lifetime Achievement Award in addition to over 100 awards and nominations, the film is resonating with audiences across the globe.
Broadcast and Streaming PBS 2026-2029
The film was created to uplift the majority of Assisted Reproductive technologies patients– those who do not succeed; give them voice, dignity and a way forward.
Full Length DocumentaryTest Screening at the Barbican, London, UK
Funded in part by NYSCA, pro bono legal by Cardozo School of Law
Welcome to Vodar Films, LLC
Irina Vodar is an award‑winning independent filmmaker and graphic designer with more than twenty years of experience in Broadcast Design at ABC News. As a filmmaker, she has written, produced, and directed two feature‑length documentaries. Her debut doc feature Miss Gulag, produced in association with Neihausen-Yatskova Films on a beauty pageant in a Russian prison for women, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in competition.
Her second feature, Anything You Lose, offers an intimate and insightful look at the journey through infertility. The project received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), went viral across the indie festival circuit with a triple win at the IndieFest Film Awards, earned more than 100 awards and nominations worldwide, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award. The film is currently available nationwide on PBS broadcast and streaming platforms.
“…a telling documentary about social chaos in post-Soviet Russia.”
-Hollywood Reporter
Miss GULAG
Through the prism of a beauty pageant staged by female inmates of a Siberian prison camp emerges a complex narrative of the lives of the first generation of women to come of age in Post-Soviet Russia.
Full Length DocumentaryPremiered at Berlin Film Festival, Germany Available on Amazon Prime, iTV, JustWatch
Funded in part by The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, The Ford Foundation
WRITER | DIRECTOR | PRODUCER | EDITOR
Irina Vodar is an award-winning indie filmmaker and graphic designer with over twenty years experience in Broadcast Design with ABC News. As an Indie Filmmaker, Irina wrote, produced and directed two full-length documentary films. Her debut doc feature Miss Gulag, produced in association with Neihausen-Yatskova Films on a beauty pageant in a Russian prison for women, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in competition.
Her second documentary Anything You Lose, an insightful portrayal of infertility journey, won funding from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), went viral on the Indie Film Festival circuit with a 3X WIN at IndieFest Film Awards, garnering over 100 awards and nominations globally, received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and is available on PBS National Broadcast and Streaming.