Carol Dysinger is the co-director of ''
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
''Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl)'' is a 2019 in film, 2019 British documentary short film directed by Carol Dysinger and produced by Elena Andreicheva. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), Academy ...
'', for which she and
Elena Andreicheva
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 Communicat ...
won the
Best Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are annou ...
at the
92nd Academy Awards
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 ...
in 2020.
Biography
She had spent many years in
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
beginning in the late 1970s during the
Soviet invasion of Afganhistan
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, providing insight for her to work on the film. She currently serves as an associate professor at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
.
References
External links
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Official Website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Directors of Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
American women film directors
21st-century American women
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