Yelena Trofimenko

Yelena Trofimenko

Yelena Trofimenko, 2011
Born Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko
20.03.1964
Minsk, USSR
Occupation Film director, screenwriter
Years active 1986-present
Known for authors cinematograph (moviemaking)
Spouse(s) Leonid Tereshko (1961-present)
ET, 2011
"The BOOK" by Yelena Trofimenko, design and layout made by Yaroslav Tereshko

Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko (born March 20, 1964) is a Belarusian film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actress, poet.

Biography

Yelena was born on March, 20, in Minsk, Belarus. Father- Nicolay Antonovich Trofimenko (Mar 9, 1936- Dec 12, 2000) – welder, mother – Vera Lukinichna Trofimenko (Sep 5, 1937 – present). Graduated from Minsk high school № 74 with French language. During the period from 1982 to 1989 Yelena worked at Belarusian Television. She directed and produced several films during this time. In 1989 she was admitted to (Belarusian State Academy of Arts), to the first historical school for directors of story films in Belarus, which was established by Victor Turov. Yelena graduated with summa cum laude in 1994. In 1994 Yelena won in competition and earned training in French school - Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques- FEMIS, Paris (École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son). Yelena received a grant from French Government and directed a documentary, and earned diploma-certificate.

In 1996 Elena has become a director at film studio «Belarusfilm» . In 1998 came out her first full-length film «Falling upward». Yelena was directing action films and documentary at creative association “BelVideoCenter”.

In 1996 Yelena Trofimenko has become a member of Belarusian Union of cinematographers. In 1998 – the member of Board of Directors. Yelena is a founder, originator, and artistic director of creative studio “Youth Studio XXI ” («Belarusfilm», 2002).[1] “Festival of one film” was created at this Studio.

«Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko is going on the road of cinematograph, called metaphoric or associative. She writes poetry and creates art drawings.»(A. Bobkova, film critic, article in the "Belarusian Cinema: young directors," Minsk, 1999)

Yelena is married to Leonid Tereshko (Mar, 5 1961) – cameraman at First National Channel (Belarus). Son was born in 1987, Yaroslav.

In 2012, Yelena created a collection of poems and reproductions - "The Book" by Yelena Trofimenko.[2]

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... course play movie work director, screenwriter Movie participated in Women’s International Film and Arts festival, Germany, 1992
1992 Hell is... course play movie work (adaptation of a play “No Exit” or 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 festival “Youth” in Kiev, Ukraine, 1994.
1994 Rendezvous final work, documentary, FEMIS director
1995–1996 The Box Man 5 author’s television programs, talk-show hostess producer, director, anchor
1996 Help documentary director, producer, screenwriter
1997 Svetlana documentary director
1998 Falling upward play movie director, producer, screenwriter has received 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; – V 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; film participated in the II All-Russia festival of visual arts "Eaglet" in Tuapse, Russia, 1998; also participated in the International Film Festival in Cottbus, Germany, 1998.

2000 Eclectic-show mega-clip director, screenwriter
2004 The fear Short director prize "Golden Knight" 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 on 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

  1. Anna Sahdrina (12.03.2011). "This strange object of dreams" (in Russian). «Sovetskaya Belorussia». Retrieved 2011-09-03. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. Yelena Trofimenko (2012-01-26). ""The Book" by Yelena Trofimenko" (in Russian). issuu.com. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
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