Yelizaveta Smith

director, producer
Education
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University
Biography
Yelizaveta Smith graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University as a film director. In 2014, she co-founded the film production company Tabor. After the Ukrainian revolution, she started volunteer work with children in the Donetsk area, which the war partly destroyed. Her experience there led to the documentary School Number 3, co-directed by George Genoux. The film premiered at Berlinale 2017, winning the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury, and received a Special Award at HumanDOC Festival in Warsaw. Her debut short fiction Solitude was selected to Odesa IFF and Raindance in 2019 and was nominated for Best Short Film at the Ukrainian Film Academy Awards 2020. Yelizaveta was a participant at Berlinale Talents, MidPointFeatureLauch, TorinoFilmLabExtended. She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and European Film Academy.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Listening to the World (2025, director), The Days I Would Like to Forget (2024, director), SCHOOL NUMBER 3 (2017, director), Solitude (2019, director)
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