Alexandra Alexandrovna Sviridova

Background

Sviridova, Alexandra Alexandrovna was born on August 18, 1951 in Kherson, Ukraine. Came to the United States, 1993. Daughter of Elizabeth Lvovna Finkelstein-Sviridova.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Offine Arts, Odessa, Ukraine, 1971. Master of Arts in Screenwriting, Institute Cinematography, Moscow, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Cinema Criticism, Institute Cinematography, Moscow, 1993.

Career

Her great-grandfather was the famous Rabbi Finkelstein of Czarist Russia. She wrote scenarios for about 20 films and wrote over 500 essays. Prior to leaving Russia, she wrote the scenario and co-directed (with Andrey Yerastov) the Russian language film "Varlam Shalamov.

("Варлам Шаламов Несколько моих жизней" ) (1991) about Varlam Shalamov, an author of a collection of short stories about his experience in Gulag labor camps.

In 1986 she wrote the screenplay for a short animated film called "One Doll"s Story" "История одной куклы" directed by Boris Ablymin about the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. "Using stop-action animation, this inspiring film is one of the most engaging films ever made about the Holocaust" Patricia Kowal, Los Angeles View, 1996.

She also produced Twelve one-hour shows for Russian television called "Top Secret". They dealt with such topics as Boris Pasternak"s personal letters and manuscripts that were held by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) for thirty years, the Central Committee"s secret files on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, and former Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) agents who were serving as President Yeltsin"s advisers or were lodged in other high positions.

Twelve documentaries were on the top of the rating charts when they were shown during the period between March 1992 and April 1993.

She left in protest when it departed from the initially set goal: to record testimonies of all of the remaining survivors of the Holocaust (the work was stopped after collecting about 55,000 interviews, with 25,000 letters with apologies sent to people left unrecorded ). She and other journalists claimed that while in the United States, were not free to write truly independently. As an example she said her interviews with human rights activists, such as Yelena Bonner, were censored.

She lives in New New York

2009 Mark Aldanov award.

Achievements

• Alexandra Alexandrovna Sviridova has been listed as a notable writer, film director by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Public relations in Russian Press, Amnesty International, United States of America, United Kingdom, since 1995. Member Alliance of Russian and American Women Inc., since 1996. Member Film Maker's Union Russia, Moscow Union Playwrights, Literature Foundation.

Interests

• Reading, watching movies, studying history of world religions.

Connections

1 child, Lev Alex.

Father:

Elizabeth Lvovna Finkelstein-Sviridova Sviridova

child:

Lev Alex Sviridova