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Yelena Trofimenko

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Yelena Trofimenko
Yelena Trofimenko, 2011
Born
Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko

(1964-03-20) 20 March 1964 (age 60)
Minsk, USSR
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1986-present
SpouseLeonid Tereshko (1961-present)
ET, 2011
The Book by Yelena Trofimenko, design and layout by Yaroslav Tereshko

Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko (born March 20, 1964) is a Belarusian film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actress and poet.

Biography

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Trofimenko was born on 20 March 1964 in Minsk, Belarus. In 1996, she became a director at the Belarusfilm studio. In 1998, her first full-length film Falling Upward, was released.

In 1996, Trofimenko became a member of the Belarusian Union of Cinematographers and, in 1998, a member of board of directors. She is a founder, originator and artistic director of the creative studio Youth Studio XXI (Belarusfilm, 2002).[1] Festival of one film was created at this studio.[2]

In 2012, Trofimenko created a collection of poems and reproductions, The Book.[3]

Filmography

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Year Title Genre Role Prize and rewards
1986 Memory and Conscience Documentary Director, screenwriter
1989 Life Video-novel Director, screenwriter, actress
1991 Birds are Still Singing... Coursework Director, screenwriter Movie participated in Women's International Film and Arts festival, Germany, 1992
1992 Hell is... Coursework (adaptation of the play No Exit, sometime known as Behind closed doors by Jean-Paul Sartre Director, screenwriter
1993 The Judgment Final graduation work (by Franz Kafka) Director, screenwriter, actress The movie has participated in Youth Festival in Kiev, Ukraine, 1994.
1994 Rendezvous Final work, documentary, FEMIS Director
1995–1996 The Box Man Five authors' television programs, talk-show hostess Producer, director, presenter
1996 Help Documentary Director, producer, screenwriter
1997 Svetlana Documentary Director
1998 Falling Upward play movie director, producer, screenwriter Jury diploma – "For debut and artistic quest in genre of modern fairytale movie making"
Prize of Belarusian foundation of culture development – "For ingenuity of director’s vision" in Minsk, Belarus, 1999
Women’s International Film and Arts festival 1999; diploma – "For successful combination of a fantasy world with reality, for efficacious employment of computer graphics in movie making" – with regards to the author to continue this experiment XXIX Festival, Lagov, Poland, 1999
Participated in the II All-Russia Festival of Visual Arts "Eaglet" in Tuapse, Russia, 1998
Participated in the International Film Festival in Cottbus, Germany, 1998.
2000 Eclectic-show Mega-clip Director, screenwriter
2004 The fear Short Director "Golden Knight" prize in the category - shorties MCC "Golden Knight" (in the anthology "The territory of the resistance")
2005 Dreams of Eli Documentary Director of the filming reconstructions

Performances

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Year Title Role Note
1990 Testament Rodin Author, director, actress Student performance on Auguste Rodin
1991 The Good Soldier Švejk Author, director, actress Student performance on Jaroslav Hašek
1991 The Box Man Author, director, actress Student performance on Kōbō Abe
1992 Leaf Litter Author, director, actress Student performance on Vasily Rozanov
1992 Demons Author, director, actress Student performance on Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1993 Chairs Author, director, actress Diploma performance on Eugène Ionesco
2004 Reading Kharms Author, director Performance on D. Harms in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov)
2004 Bald Singer Author, director Performance of Eugène Ionesco in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov)
Prize at the XI Festival of Francophone Theatre in Minsk, 2004
2005 Against AIDS Author, director Performance in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov)
2006 The Human Voice Author, director Performance in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov), written by Jean Cocteau

References

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  1. ^ Anna Sahdrina (12 March 2011). "This strange object of dreams". Sovetskaya Belorussia (in Russian). Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  2. ^ A. Bobkova (film critic), "Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko is going on the road of cinematograph, called metaphoric or associative. She writes poetry and creates art drawings.", Belarusian Cinema: young directors", Minsk, 1999
  3. ^ Yelena Trofimenko (26 June 2012). "The Book" (in Russian). Issuu. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
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