Education
Karpenko-Kary National University of Theatre, Film and Television in Kyiv
Biography
Born on 17 November 1984 in Kozelets, Chernihiv Region. Between 2006 and 2013, she worked at Technomedia as a director and editor. She taught editing at Taras Maliarevych’s studio (2011–2012) and at the Red Dog children’s studio (2016–2017). In 2014, Olesia won a presidential grant to create a script for the documentary The Music of the Monocle about the life and work of Danylo Demutsky. Olesia worked with the Open Politics NGO (2016–2017). Since 2015, she has been a jury member for the Coronation of the Word International Literary Competition. She is currently working on the documentary And Every River…, which focuses on an environmental subject.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Deportation 44–46 (2021, director), Molfar (2008, director), Violin (2014, director), A Fairytale of Money (2018, director), The Borderline. Operation Hrubieszow (2019, director), Carol of the Bells (2020, director)
