Olga Samolevska
Director (14) Film editor (1) Screenwriter (13)
She began her creative path in 1980 at the Kyivnaukfilm Studio with the production of film magazines, advertising and bespoke films. In 1988, for mass-screen films production, she was rated straight to the highest director's category, from the second one. She received letters of gratitude from the Mayor of Kyiv city and from the UAC (Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers) - for many years of dedicated work at the Kyiv Studio for Popular Science Films (National Cinematheque of Ukraine), for a significant personal contribution to the creative achievements of Kyivnaukfil’m. After 15 years of employment at Kyivnaukfilm, she worked at the following studios: AV-TV, Kinematografist, Ars Planetarium, Ukrtelefilm, Ukrkinochronika. She published culturological articles in the central Ukrainian newspapers: "Dzerkalo Tyzhnya", "Den", "Literaturna Ukraina", "Slovo Prosviti", "Ukraina Moloda", in magazines "Zhinka", "Kyiv", "Kino-Teatr", "Slovo Zhinky"... It restores and popularizes the memory of great Ukrainians: archaeologist Mykola Makarenko, doctor Teofil Yanovsky, actress Maria Kapnist, doctor Oksana Khrashchevska, philanthropist Hryhoriy Hladenyuk.
She passed through the Kyiv City State Administration the idea of naming the square between St. Sophia and St. Michael's Cathedrals after the heroic Mykola Omelyanovich Makarenko, who was shot in 1938 for protecting the historical heritage. She translated Ukrainian poetry and English prose into Russian. She is a member of the poetry clubs “Exlibris” and “Rodnyk”, and the “MasterPeace” international club. Participated with poetry and film programs in many creative events in Kharkov, Slavyansk, Odessa, and Dnipro (Ukraine), Moscow, Smolensk, Yekaterinburg, Novorossiysk, Irkutsk and St. Petersburg (Russia), Minsk (Belarus’), Tbilisi (Georgia), Warsaw and Krakow (Poland), Toronto (Canada), Budapest and Gyor (Hungary), Toronto (Canada), Berlin, Kassel, Stuttgart, Erfurt and Hamburg (Germany), Montecatini (Italy), Doha (Qatar).
For almost 4 decades she has been performing in Kyiv with poetry and film programs - in the House of Scientists, the Writers' Union, the House of Cinema, the Library of Arts, the Parliamentary, Demiivska and many other libraries. She also performed at lyceums, the Planetarium, the Embassy of Israel, the State Scientific Architectural and Construction Library, the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, etc. In October 2014, she organized a concert "Come back alive!" with the participation of Kyiv bards, poets and actors (Raisa Nedashkivska, Igor Zhuk, Anatoliy Lemysh, Volodymyr Kadenko, Natalia Bekh, Valeria Boguslavska, Viktor Glushchenko, Iryna Ivanchenko, Olena Yevteeva, Vitaliy Yegorov, Tetyana Komlynykh, etc.) for wounded Ukrainian warriors at the Main Military Clinical Hospital (Kyiv).
She took part in humanitarian actions organized by Kyiv volunteers, as well as Raisa Nedashkivska, Ihor Zhuk and Iren Rozdobudko, in support of Ukrainian soldiers. Her poems were published in newspapers, almanacs, collections and magazines in Ukraine and Russia, were included in the anthology "Twentieth Century, Remember Us Like This", "Kyiv. Russian Poetry. Twentieth Century", in the almanac "Forum" (2020, 2021), in the anthology of modern Russian-language poetry "Kyiv Stained Glass" (2020), were posted on the website http://www.poezia.org and on one of the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine. In 2017, as an author of the poetry collection "Vremena” (“Times”), she was granted the membership of the NWUU (National Writers' Union of Ukraine) by the decision of the Selection Committee “…as an exception to the paragraph of the Statute of the two introductory collections”. She is: -
a member of the UAC since 1988; -
a co-author of the following books: "Les Tanyuk: Renaissance Energy" (Publishing House "World of Knowledge"), "Roman Korogodsky: Memories of Friends" (Publishing House "Spirit and Letter") -
Screenwriter and director of video art "Stabat Mater" (1995) awarded for the avant-garde the Adriano Asti’s Golden Plate at the oldest European International Short Film Festival "Filmvideo" (Montecatino, Italy. 1997); the only Ukrainian film purchased by the International Film Archive A.I.A.C.E. in Milan (Italy, 1997); -
worked as a member of the jury of film festivals and an expert of the All-Ukrainian competition "Coronation of the Word"; -
was a consultant for the American film "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" (Holly Morris, Anne Bogart), which received several international awards; - a member of the Сhapter on awarding the prize "For Preservation of Historical Memory" named after Les’ Tanyuk. -
participant of the collection "Angels of the Celestial Couple" ordered by the State Television and Radio, released in 2016, and the collection "ONE of us", ordered by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, released in 2020 (compiler – journalist and radio host Galina Datsyuk); -
Laureate and graduate of international film festivals; - winner and diploma winner of All-Ukrainian competitions "Coronation of the word"; -
laureate and diploma winner of All-Ukrainian poetry festivals; -
nominee of the International Award "Nika"; -
nominee of the Lesya Ukrainka’s Government Award; - nominee of the T. Shevchenko’s the State Award; -
laureate of the Mykolaychuk’s Kyiv Art Award; -
laureate of the Felix Sobolev’s award "For Significant Contribution to the World and Ukrainian non-Fiction Cinema" -Resolution of the Secretariat of the Board of the UAS; - laureate of the International Literary Festival "Rare Bird", - winner of the International Literary Prize "Salt of Our Land", - laureate of the Victor Vasylenko’s International LOGOS-SINEMA Award, -
laureate of the Arseniy and Andriy Tarkovsky’s International Award, -
member of the Ukrainian Film Academy, the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers, and the National Writers' Union of Ukraine.
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