Yelena Trofimenko
Yelena Trofimenko | |
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 Yelena Trofimenko, 2011 | |
| Born | Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko 20 March 1964 Minsk, USSR |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1986-present |
| Spouse(s) | Leonid Tereshko (1961-present) |
Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko (born March 20, 1964) is a Belarusian film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actress and poet.
Biography[]
Trofimenko was born on 20 March 1964 in Minsk, Belarus. Her father was Nicolay Antonovich Trofimenko (9 March 1936 - 12 December 2000), a welder. Her mother was Vera Lukinichna Trofimenko (5 September 1937 – ). She graduated from Minsk High School № 74 with French language. From 1982 to 1989, she worked at Belarusian Television where she directed and produced several films. In 1989, she was admitted to the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, the first school for directors of story films in Belarus, which was established by Victor Turov. Trofimenko graduated summa cum laude in 1994. In 1994, she won a competition and earned training at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques,also known as La Fémis (École nationale supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son), in Paris. She received a grant from the French government and directed a documentary, and earned diploma-certificate.
In 1996, she became a director at the Belarusfilm studio. In 1998, her first full-length film , was released. She directed action films and documentaries at the creative association BelVideoCenter.
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]
Trofimenko is married to Leonid Tereshko (5 March 1961), a cameraman at First National Channel (Belarus). Their son was born in 1987, Yaroslav.
In 2012, Trofimenko created a collection of poems and reproductions, The Book.[3]
Filmography[]
| 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[]
| 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[]
- ^ Anna Sahdrina (12 March 2011). "This strange object of dreams". Sovetskaya Belorussia (in Russian). Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ^ 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
- ^ Yelena Trofimenko (26 June 2012). "The Book" (in Russian). Issuu. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
External links[]
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Belarusian film actresses
- Belarusian film directors
- Belarusian women film directors
- 20th-century Belarusian poets
- Belarusian screenwriters
- 20th-century Belarusian actresses
- 21st-century Belarusian actresses
- 21st-century Belarusian poets
- Belarusian women poets
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- Belarusian State Academy of Arts alumni