Elena Andreicheva is a Ukrainian-born producer and filmmaker. She moved to the

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at the age of 11, and later studied physics at

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, graduating with a Bachelor of Science and then a Masters in Science Communication. She worked in TV film production beginning in 2006. She is the producer of the 2019 documentary film ''

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

Carol Dysinger Carol Dysinger is the co-director of ''Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)'', for which she and Elena Andreicheva won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), Best Documentary Short Subject at the 92nd Academy Awar ...

won the (Oscar)

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at the

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. Her Oscar outfit was made sustainably and she related that to her work "dealing with inequality and injustice". She spoke at the

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Science Festival in 2021 on how documentary film can help people understand science and technology. She was assistant director to Rebecca Marshall on a documentary titled ''The Forest in Me.'' The film was shot in

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and followed seventy-year old

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, a woman living a two weeks walk away from the nearest person, virtually a recluse from the

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. She also helped fact check for Nick Rosen's book ''How to Live Off-Grid.'' On winning the Oscar, Andreicheva became the first female winner of Ukrainian origin since the country gained independence.

Awards

References

External links

Official website

Interview about her career choices

Interview about Oscar and Ukraine
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