Alina Panova (full name Alina Panova-Marasovich, born Alina Vaksman in

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) is a Ukrainian-American film and stage

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costume ...

and producer.

Biography

Panova was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1961. She studied art at the

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in Kiev, and

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

in New York City, after her family emigrated to the US in 1979.

Career

In 2006 Panova produced her first feature film, ''ORANGELOVE'' (directed by Alan Badoyev and starring Aleksei Chadov and Olga Makeyeva). The film premiered at the

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...

Family

Panova is married to Croatian composer Zeljko Marasovich. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

* ''

The Age of Innocence ''The Age of Innocence'' is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine ''Pictorial Review''. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Apple ...

'' (1993) * ''

Addams Family Values ''Addams Family Values'' is a 1993 American supernatural black comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Paul Rudnick, based on the characters created by Charles Addams. It is the sequel to ''The Addams Family'' (1991). The film ...

'' (1993) * ''

Notes From Underground ''Notes from Underground'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform Russian: ; also translated as ''Notes from the Underground'' or ''Letters from the Underworld'') is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal ''Epoch'' in 1864. ...

'' (1995) * ''

Dunston Checks In ''Dunston Checks In'' is a 1996 Canadian-American children's comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis. The film stars Eric Lloyd, Graham Sack, Jason Alexander, Faye Dunaway, Rupert Everett, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Sam the Orangutan as Dunston. T ...

'' (1996) * '' The Naked Man'' (1998) * '' Bruiser'' (2000) * ''

Sexual Life ''Sexual Life'' is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Ken Kwapis, who would go on to chronicle modern romantic life in the better-known '' He's Just Not That Into You'' in 2009. Produced by Ken Aguado and distributed by Sho ...

'' (2005) * '' Standing Still'' (2005) * '' Orangelove'' (2007)

References

External links

Alina Panova Official Web SiteOrange Love- The Movie
* Ukrainian women artists Ukrainian Jews Film people from Kyiv 1961 births American film producers American costume designers Living people Cooper Union alumni Shevchenko State Art School alumni {{US-actor-stub