Olena Fetisova

Olena Fetisova is the European Documentary Network and Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers member, 2009 Ukrainian State Film Award Winner, 2009 EAVE Graduate. Olena was born in Kyiv, Ukraine to a family of filmmakers, in 1964. Still lives in Kyiv.

Career

She graduated from the Moscow Film School VGIK, 1987. She has been working in the film industry without interruption ever since. In 2001, she founded the Interfilm Production Studio. Fetisova refused the State Award of Armenia in 2014 in protest of Armenian recognition of the “referendum” in Crimea.
In 2013, she was director, screenwriter and producer in Paradjanov.
In 2019, Fetisova participated in the Trans-Atlantic Partners, a joint initiative between Germany’s Erich Pommer Institute, the Canadian Media Producers Association, Telefilm Canada and the Canada Media Fund.