Alina Maksimenko, an artist born in Kiev, Ukraine. Painter, film director, DoP. During the years 1985 - 1988 she studied in T.G. Shevchenko Art School; graduatedfrom Kiev Art. College of M. Boychuk, documentary film directing at class of Sergey Bukovsky, Radio Broadcasting and Press Institute, and Wajda School’s DOK PRO programme. Her first short Ptitsa was awarded at It’s All True! IDFF in Brazil, received Andrei Matrosov Award at Docudays UA and the Award for BestDirection at Astra Film Festival, Romania. Ptitsa was also submitted to the American Film Academy - Academy Awards in the Documentary Short Film category.
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