Elena Andreicheva

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Elena Andreicheva
Born
Ukraine
Education Imperial College London
Occupationfilm producer
Notable work Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
Awards Academy Award Oscar for Best Documentary in a Short Subject (2019)

Elena Andreicheva is a Ukrainian-born producer and filmmaker. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 11, and later studied physics at Imperial College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science and then a Masters in Science Communication. She worked in TV film production beginning in 2006. [1]

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She is the producer of the 2019 documentary film Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) , for which she and Carol Dysinger won the (Oscar) Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 92nd Academy Awards. [2] [3] [4] [5] Her Oscar outfit was made sustainably and she related that to her work "dealing with inequality and injustice". [6] She spoke at the Athens Science Festival in 2021 on how documentary film can help people understand science and technology. [1] She was assistant director to Rebecca Marshall on a documentary titled The Forest in Me. The film was shot in Siberia and followed seventy-year old Agafia Lykova, a woman living a two weeks walk away from the nearest person, virtually a recluse from the Stalin era. [7] She also helped fact check for Nick Rosen's book How to Live Off-Grid. [8]

On winning the Oscar, Andreicheva became the first female winner of Ukrainian origin since the country gained independence. [9]

Awards

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef
2019 IDA Documentary Award Best Short Documentary Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) Won [10]
2020 BAFTA Award British Short FilmWon [11]
2020 Academy Award Best Documentary (Short Subject) Won [6]

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References

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  8. Rosen, Nick (2007). How to live off-grid : journeys outside the system. London. p. 357. ISBN   978-1-4464-6388-8. OCLC   973328775.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. Ukrainian-Born Filmmaker Elena Andreicheva on Oscar Win and Life in Ukraine , retrieved February 26, 2022
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