Yulia Vishnevets (she/her) is a Berlin-based journalist and documentary filmmaker who has made more than 20 nonfiction films. She previously worked as a reporter for Deutsche Welle, and has been a staff documentary maker for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Current Time TV in Russia since 2015. Her feature Hey! Teachers! was screened at IDFA and Krakow, and received several international accolades. In September 2022, she was detained while filming an anti-war demonstration in Dagestan and spent five days in prison; she had to leave Russia at risk of further criminal prosecution.