Yelena Trofimenko

• Name — Yelena Trofimenko • Birth Name — Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko • Born — 20 March 1964 • Birthplace — Minsk, USSR • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 1986-present • Spouse — Leonid Tereshko (1961-present) • Illustration — ET, 2011 • Illustration — The Book by Yelena Trofimenko, design and layout by Yaroslav Tereshko

Trofimenko was born on 20 March 1964 in Minsk, Belarus. In 1996, she became a director at the Belarusfilm studio. In 1998, her first full-length film Falling Upward, was released. In 1996, Trofimenko became a member of the Belarusian Union of Cinematographers and, in 1998, a member of board of directors. She is a founder, originator and artistic director of the creative studio Youth Studio XXI (Belarusfilm, 2002). Festival of one film was created at this studio. In 2012, Trofimenko created a collection of poems and reproductions, The Book.

• Year — Title — Genre — Role — Prize and rewards • 1986 — Memory and Conscience — Documentary — Director, screenwriter • 1989 — Life — Video-novel — Director, screenwriter, actress • 1991 — Birds are Still Singing... — Coursework — Director, screenwriter — Movie participated in Women's International Film and Arts festival, Germany, 1992 • 1992 — Hell is... — Coursework (adaptation of the play No Exit, sometime known as Behind closed doors by Jean-Paul Sartre — Director, screenwriter • 1993 — The Judgment — Final graduation work (by Franz Kafka) — Director, screenwriter, actress — The movie has participated in Youth Festival in Kiev, Ukraine, 1994. • 1994 — Rendezvous — Final work, documentary, FEMIS — Director • 1995–1996 — The Box Man — Five authors' television programs, talk-show hostess — Producer, director, presenter • 1996 — Help — Documentary — Director, producer, screenwriter • 1997 — Svetlana — Documentary — Director • 1998 — Falling Upward — play movie — director, producer, screenwriter — Jury diploma – "For debut and artistic quest in genre of modern fairytale movie making" Prize of Belarusian foundation of culture development – "For ingenuity of director’s vision" in Minsk, Belarus, 1999 Women’s International Film and Arts festival 1999; diploma – "For successful combination of a fantasy world with reality, for efficacious employment of computer graphics in movie making" – with regards to the author to continue this experiment XXIX Festival, Lagov, Poland, 1999 Participated in the II All-Russia Festival of Visual Arts "Eaglet" in Tuapse, Russia, 1998 Participated in the International Film Festival in Cottbus, Germany, 1998. • 2000 — Eclectic-show — Mega-clip — Director, screenwriter • 2004 — The fear — Short — Director — "Golden Knight" prize in the category - shorties MCC "Golden Knight" (in the anthology "The territory of the resistance") • 2005 — Dreams of Eli — Documentary — Director of the filming reconstructions

• Year — Title — Role — Note • 1990 — Testament Rodin — Author, director, actress — Student performance on Auguste Rodin • 1991 — The Good Soldier Švejk — Author, director, actress — Student performance on Jaroslav Hašek • 1991 — The Box Man — Author, director, actress — Student performance on Kōbō Abe • 1992 — Leaf Litter — Author, director, actress — Student performance on Vasily Rozanov • 1992 — Demons — Author, director, actress — Student performance on Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1993 — Chairs — Author, director, actress — Diploma performance on Eugène Ionesco • 2004 — Reading Kharms — Author, director — Performance on D. Harms in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov) • 2004 — Bald Singer — Author, director — Performance of Eugène Ionesco in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov) Prize at the XI Festival of Francophone Theatre in Minsk, 2004 • 2005 — Against AIDS — Author, director — Performance in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov) • 2006 — The Human Voice — Author, director — Performance in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov), written by Jean Cocteau