Years active 1993–present | Name Marianna Yarovskaya | |
Residence Los Angeles, California Occupation Documentary filmmaker, Film director, researcher | ||
Women of the Gulag: Q&A with director Marianna Yarovskaya
Marianna Yarovskaya is a Russian-American documentary filmmaker. She was a producer of Greedy Lying Bastards (2012).
Contents
- Women of the Gulag QA with director Marianna Yarovskaya
- Early life and education
- Career
- Film awards
- Published works
- References
Early life and education
Yarovskaya was born in Moscow, Russia. She obtained a Master of Arts in Journalism/Editing and Publishing from Russia's Moscow State University and later graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Career
In 1998 Yarovskaya directed Undesirables, which won a Student Academy Award, a College Television Award at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation and screened at Cannes. Her documentary film Holy Warriors, a study of soldiers who found religion, has played in 35 countries worldwide.
Since 2000 Yarovskaya has worked for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, NASA Ames Research Center, Rocky Mountain Pictures and Greenpeace as producer and Senior Editor. In 2006 she was head of research on An Inconvenient Truth which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
She worked in the research department of the Academy Award-winning films An Inconvenient Truth (2007), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001), and also on award-winning feature documentaries Countdown to Zero (2010), Samsara (2012)
In 2014 she directed the film Women in the Gulag with historian Paul Gregory.