Elena Andreicheva

Elena Andreicheva is a Ukrainian-born producer and filmmaker. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 11, and later studied physics at Imperial College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science and then a Masters in Science Communication. She worked in TV film production beginning in 2006.^[1]

Elena Andreicheva
Born	Ukraine
Education	Imperial College London
Occupation	film producer
Notable work	Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
Awards	Academy Award Oscar for Best Documentary in a Short Subject (2019)

Biography

She is the producer of the 2019 documentary film Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl), for which she and Carol Dysinger won the (Oscar) Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 92nd Academy Awards.^[2][3][4][5] Her Oscar outfit was made sustainably and she related that to her work "dealing with inequality and injustice".^[6] She spoke at the Athens Science Festival in 2021 on how documentary film can help people understand science and technology.^[1] She was assistant director to Rebecca Marshall on a documentary titled The Forest in Me. The film was shot in Siberia and followed seventy-year old Agafia Lykova, a woman living a two weeks walk away from the nearest person, virtually a recluse from the Stalin era.^[7] She also helped fact check for Nick Rosen's book How to Live Off-Grid.^[8]

On winning the Oscar, Andreicheva became the first female winner of Ukrainian origin since the country gained independence.^[9]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref
2019	IDA Documentary Award	Best Short Documentary	Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)	Won	[10]
2020	BAFTA Award	British Short Film		Won	[11]
2020	Academy Award	Best Documentary (Short Subject)		Won	[6]