Olga Poliektova

Olga Poliektova is a Russian animation director born in 1985 in St-Petersburg, Russia. She graduated Art school and the University of Cinema and Television in animation and computer graphic. She started to work together with her twin sister as film director duo and animator. During these years she made several short animation films which took part over then in 200 worldwide festivals and earned over 80 awards. She made several workshops about animation in Russia, Germany, Italy, China and UAE. Her last film "My grandfather was a cherry tree" was Oscar nominated and was selected to Long list as best short animation film. Nowadays together with her sister she has finished making new film "The swimmer" with co-production with France and Germany.