Tatiana Poliektova

Tatiana Poliektova was born in St-Petersburg, Russia. She graduated Art and the University of Cinema and Television and started to work together with her twin sister as film director duo and animators. During these years they made several short animation films over then in 200 worldwide festivals and earned over 100 awards. Their animation film "Noise" was first screened at Cannes Film Festival (Short Corner) in May 2012 and also at Moscow International Film Festival in June 2012. In 2013 they made animation film "Quagga" in production with Tve (television for the environmental) and Bloomberg, London. It was awarded as the Best Environmental film in Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival (Malaysia), Ecotopfilm 2013 (Slovak Republic) and got in the list of top 50 best shorts of Russia (Global Russian shorts). She made several workshops about animation in Russia, Germany, Italy, China and UAE. Also she took part as a jury of film festivals in Russia, Italy, Poland and Slovakia. 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.