‘Idiotka’ Director Nastasya Popov And Stars Anna Baryshnikov And Camila Mendes Unpack Theme Of “Making Your Private Self Public”

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Following her executive production work on Prime Video’s Música, in which she also starred along the film’s writer and director Rudy Mancuso, as well as her EP role on the streamer’s romantic comedy Upgraded, in which she starred alongside Archie Renaux and Marisa Tomei, Camila Mendes’ latest double duty project takes place in the world of fashion.

Idiotka is an acquisition title out of the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, where it will premiere Wednesday. “This project came through a mutual friend that I shared with our producing partner, Tess Cohen, a friend that I knew from high school.

It’s very random, but awesome. It gripped me,” Mendes told Deadline of the film ahead of its premiere Wednesday. “I called my producing partner right away, Rachel Matthews, and I was like, we gotta do this.

She’s like, ‘Babe, I’m with you. I just read the first two pages and I’m in.’ It was so gripping and captivating. [Director] Nastasya’s writing style is so unique that it was an immediate, yes, but I was like, ‘All right, fine.