Kristina Kevish was born in 1979 in a Latvian town Daugavpils. The surname Kevish is of a Polish-Hungarian origin, Kristina’s ancestors used to own a place Skaista near Krāslava. In 1984 the family moves to Riga, where Kristina studies at school and follows a course of esthetics in a private college. She is keen on writing poetry, philisophical prose and essays.

In 1997 Kristina decides to study film making in Russia, and goes to St. Petersburg in 1999. There she follows a story and film directing course in a cinematography school "Студия КАДР" ("Studio-FRAME") by the LENFILM film studio. In 1999 Kristina becomes a student of the full-time course of the faculty of screen arts of the St. Petersburg University of Cinema and Television (studio of Igor Maslennikov and Nikolai Koshelev) and in 2004 graduates as a director of fiction film.

While studying she attends theatre rehearsals in “The Youth Theatre at Fontanka” (art director Semjon Spivak) and makes three short films. One of them, a screen adaptation of ‘The Brief Debut of Tildy’ short story by O’Henry, receives a prize of the students cinema festival for a professional production pasticcio (chief of the jury - Aleksei Balabanov). In 2004 Kristina makes her graduation film based on a novel by a Polish writer Edvard Zhebrovsky   “A Chance”. It is a story on a moral choice that a visitor of a clinic makes deciding to help a patient with a kidney atrophy. In 2009 in Moscow “A Chance” received an award of the 7th Eurasian Teleforum.

In 2006 Kristina finishes her debut full length movie, a psychological drama “The Islanders”. The film tells a story of an illegal orphan asylum in a Russian provinсe. It is a story of a tragic and absurd child abandonment. The film production is partially supported by Dmitry Meskhiev’s studio “Cherepaha”, the “LENFILM” studio as well as by private investors. While looking for children to act in the film Kristina preforms an audition among real foster children of St. Petersburg’s and its suburbs’ asylums. All children in the film are in reality abandoned children. The first performance took place in Riga, Latvia, in the “Moscow House’ film theatre as part of the “Best Russian Film” festival. In 2008 “The Islanders” receives the Best Film award and People's Choice Award of the International Human Rights Festival “STEPS” .  In 2009 Kristina Kevish receives the “СТРАНА” ("Country") National Award of the 7th Eurasian cinema forum and the “Noah’s Ark” festival prize for the Best Director.

In 2007 Kristina Kevish starts working at the next full length project “The Eleventh Hour Penance”. The idea of the film stemmed from a short story by an orthodox writer archpriest N. Agafonov “A Reconnaissance Man”. It is a life story of a NKGB USSR officer who undergoes a transformation, repents and finds faith. The original script was written with the participation of the archpriest Nikolai Agafonov. The script of the film is partially based on the personal experience of the film director, on the emotional commotion she lived through while trying to understand the questions of Faith. Kristina Kevish invites Sbignew Preisner, a Polish composer, author of music for the trilogy “Blue. White. Red” by Krzysztof Kieślowski, to participate in the project. Kristina and Sbignew met in the summer of 2007 in Krakov, the composer’s hometown. The script  of the film was officially translated into Polish. The project of “The Penance of the Eleventh Hour” was officially launched into production at the “LENFILM” studio in 2007 (camera director Alexandr Mazur, costume designer Tamara Seferian (“Russian Ark”, dir. Alexandr Sokurov), artistic director Konstantin Pakhotin, stunt coordinator Oleg Vasilenko), but in 2009 the production was stopped due to insufficient funding as well as to the foreign status of  the director and composer.

Kristina Kevish works as film maker, making documentaries, TV feature films, social  and commercial advertising. In 2007 Kristina opens her own video production studio Motorboats Video - PROFFY STUDIO. In 2011 with the support of PROFFY STUDIO a short length film “Sprint into the past” (dir. Fedor Selkin) was made, Kristina participated in the project as an artistic director. In 2015 the film received awards of several international festivals for Best Production and Best foreign film. Kristina Kevish travels to Canada and takes part in the BayStreetFilmFestival festival in Thunderbay.

In 2015 Kristina Kevish participated in the project carried out by Aleksandr Mirskij "Guttman's Alternative", she was the director of several scenes. The shooting took place in Latvia, Riga and Latgalia, Sauleskalns.

In the meantime Krisitna Kevish lives in Latvia, on her own piece of land, surrounded by picturesque nature of the Latvian national park near the banks of the beautiful river Gauja. Kristina decided to dedicate her next project to the history of her homeland and the memory of her ancestors. A full length feature film project “The Venne Manor”  https://kkevish.wixsite.com/vennemanor

Kristina Kevish also working on a project of the author of the short film "The Emerald Loop."