MFA in Film, Video and Electronic Video, American University, USA (2009)

Screenwriting, summer school at Charles University, Czech Republic (2017)

MA PSychology, Lviv State University,  Ukraine 1991

MA Linguist, Ukranian Language and Literature, Lviv State University 1990

Olha Onyshko is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, scriptwriter, and storytelling coach. She also has produced, filmed, and edited numerous videos for organizations, including the World Bank, the National Park Service, UNDP, Global Health, and Johns Hopkins University. In 2018-2019, Olha led a Media Literacy Campaign to combat disinformation in Ukraine and promote the activities of the StopFake News organization. Onyshko's first film, Three Stories of Galicia, a story of humanism in the midst of atrocities during and after World War II, premiered in 2010. Screened in 12 countries and translated into four languages, the film sparked a debate over historic memory and its role in current events.  The Women of Maidan film about the role of women during the Revolution of Dignity was awarded Best Documentary at the Fort Myers Film Festival (2017).  When filming Women of Maidan, Olha became curious about the origins of woman’s power she was witnessing during the revolution and that lead her to develop and write a script about Mother of the Ukrainian nation Queen Olga, who also came down in history as a murderer and at the same time as a first Orthodox female Saint, Olga of Kyiv.  Olha had developed a Queendom Series for the limited TV series and a feature screenplay She Who Became Queen that shows a journey of a Celtic girl with special abilities of a seer to become one of the most extraordinary women in history, despite all challenges she met in the world ruled by men. While editing the film Women of Maidan, Olha began to coordinate efforts between physicians and volunteers to bring wounded Ukrainian soldiers to the U.S. for life-saving medical treatment. In 2014, she received recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives and the Embassy of Ukraine to the U.S. for her extraordinary work. Prior to filmmaking, Onyshko began her career as a broadcast journalist in her hometown of Lviv, Ukraine. She later became active in political campaigns, supported free and fair elections in her newly independent country, and advocated through nationwide educational campaigns for democracy and human rights. When Onyshko moved to the U.S. in 2002, she sought a way to continue broadcasting her voice back home, so she worked as an anchor, writer, and producer for Voice of America. While working toward an MFA at American University from 2006 to 2009, she transitioned into a documentary film. She hoped that filmmaking would become her vehicle to speak out, but she never imagined that it would send her on a joyful journey to discover the artist inside herself. Onyshko's short films include: Quo Vadis?, about regular people's response to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the refugee crisis, which was screened at the Community Stories Film Festival in March 2023; The Wheat Job, about the construction of the Holodomor Memorial in D.C. in honor of victims of the 1932-1933 Ukrainian artificial famine orchestrated by the Soviet regime, was part of the exhibit at the Ukrainian House in November of 2021; and the documentary Where Do The Children Play?, about the role of nature in children's play, which was awarded a Telly Award in 2007.