Anna Polibina is a script writer and a shortcut film director from Moscow. She personally knew those people who were among the acquaintances of Joseph Brodsky, as well as among his friends and colleagues. Anna Polibina graduated from the Literary Institute of Moscow. Since 2002 she has screened over 80 of her own short cut films, of various genres and at a broad range of themes. She has been a member of all-Russia Union of Literators since 1993.

"The Carmine Frescoes of Brodsky: the Venetian Sheen" is one of the most significant screenings by Anna Polibina of the recent spell of time.