Marianna Yarovskaya


Marianna Yarovskaya is a Russian-American documentary filmmaker who is the director and producer of the 2018 Academy Award short-listed documentary film Women of the Gulag based on the book Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Roderick Gregory. She also produced Greedy Lying Bastards.

Education

Yarovskaya received an MFA degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and an MA degree from Moscow State University.

Filmography

In 1998, Yarovskaya directed Undesirables. Her documentary film Holy Warriors, a study of soldiers who found religion, has played in 35 countries worldwide. In 2006 she was a head of research on An Inconvenient Truth which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
She produced feature films Greedy Lying Bastards and Pussy Riot: the Movement. She was a head of research on the Academy Award-winning films An Inconvenient Truth, and worked in the research department on , and also on award-winning feature documentaries Countdown to Zero, Samsara, Spirit of the Marathon II, Last Days in Vietnam, Vessel, Merchants of Doubt, Red Army, Swift Current, Betting on Zero, Boston.
Yarovskaya produced and directed Women of the Gulag with historian Paul Roderick Gregory.
Since 2000 she has also worked for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, and Greenpeace as Producer and Senior Editor.
S. No.Film/DocumentaryYear
1An Inconvinient Truth2006
2Countdown to Zero2010
3Greedy Lying Bastards2012
4Samsara2012
5Pussy Riots:The Movement2013
6Spirit of Marathon 22013
7Merchants of Doubt2014
8Last days in Vietnam2014
9Red Army2014
10Vessel2014
11Betting on Zero2016
12Swift Current2016
13Boston2017
14Women of the Gulag2018

Awards and recognition

  1. Marianna directed and produced Undesirables, which won a Student Academy Award and a College Television Awards and was screened at Cannes.
  2. An Inconvenient Truth won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
  3. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Bridging Cultures Through Film grant.
  4. Women of the Gulag was Short Listed for Academy Award Documentary Nomination in 2019.
  5. Yarovskaya is the first female director from Russia short-listed for the Oscars.