Marianna Yarovskaya

2012

Moscow, Russia

She was a producer of Greedy Lying Bastards (2012). Her documentary film Holy Warriors, a study of soldiers who found religion, has played in 35 countries worldwide. Since 2000 Yarovskaya has worked for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, Rocky Mountain Pictures and Greenpeace as producer and Senior Editor. She worked in the research department of the Academy Award-winning films An Inconvenient Truth (2007), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001), and also on award-winning feature documentaries Countdown to Zero (2010), Samsara (2012), Last Days in Vietnam (2014). She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities (National Endowment for Humanities) Bridging Cultures Through Film grant among many others In 2014 she directed the film Women of the Gulag with historian Paul Roderick Gregory.

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Background

Yarovskaya was born in Moscow, Russia.

Education

She obtained a Master of Arts in Journalism/Editing and Publishing from Russia"s Moscow State University and later graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Career

She was a producer of Greedy Lying Bastards (2012). Her documentary film Holy Warriors, a study of soldiers who found religion, has played in 35 countries worldwide. Since 2000 Yarovskaya has worked for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, Rocky Mountain Pictures and Greenpeace as producer and Senior Editor.

She worked in the research department of the Academy Award-winning films An Inconvenient Truth (2007), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001), and also on award-winning feature documentaries Countdown to Zero (2010), Samsara (2012), Last Days in Vietnam (2014).

She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities (National Endowment for Humanities) Bridging Cultures Through Film grant among many others In 2014 she directed the film Women of the Gulag with historian Paul Roderick Gregory.

Achievements

Winner - 2001 Gold Award for Student Documentary for Undesirables, Crested Butte Reel Fest Winner - 2001 Student Academy Awards (Bronze) - 28th Annual Student Academy Awards - Undesirables Winner - 2000 College television Arts and Sciences - Undesirables Winner - Best Documentary Short - Undesirables, Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada 2000 Nominee - Student International Documentary Association Award - Undesirables, International Development Association Awards 1999 Finalist - Music Television Awards - Undesirables, DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival 2001 Winner - Best Documentary Short - Holy Warriors, ECU European Union Film Festival 2007 Winner - Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary - Holy Warriors, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia and Montenegro 2007 Nominee - Arms Control Person(s) of the Year, Writer-Director Lucy Walker and her collaborators on Countdown to Zero, Arms Control Association 2010.

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