Olga Lvoff Pro

Olga Lvoff received an MFA in Social Documentary from the School of Visual Arts in 2013. Olga has worked as an independent film director since 2009. Her recent full-length documentary film, “When People Die They Sing Songs,” was broadcast on NHK (Japan), theatrically released in Russia (Documentary Film Center in Moscow), participated in festivals around the world including DOC NYC (New York) and Message to Man (St.-Petersburg). It was nominated for Student Oscar in 2014 and won CINE Golden Eagle Award. The film was featured in The New York Times in 2015.

In 2010, Olga graduated from Moscow State University’s School of Journalism. As a journalist, Olga worked for Russian national TV channel Culture filming 15-17 minute stories about art, history, and science; for Radio Liberty covering cultural events including many reports about documentary film festivals; for the magazine GEO, writing articles on science, medicine, and traveling. Being a student, she spent two months in Lyon (France) working at the Euronews television channel, where she was covering cultural news and adapting reports in French and English for the Russian audience.