Elena Andreicheva
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| Born |
Ukraine
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| Education | Imperial College London |
| Occupation | film 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]
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]
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref |
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| 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 Film | Won | [11] | |
| 2020 | Academy Award | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Won | [6] |
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