{{Short description|Ukrainian film director, producer, screenwriter}}
thumb|right|Olena Demyanenko, Toronto, 2019
'''Olena Viktorivna Demyanenko''' is a Ukrainian film director,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kyivpost.com/lifestyle/movies/ukraine-ready-launch-oscars.html |website=Kyiv Post|title=Ukraine ready to launch its own Oscars|date=April 19, 2017}}</ref> film producer,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/film/my-grandmother-fanny-kaplan.9324|title=My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan|website=europeanfilmawards.eu|accessdate=February 17, 2021|archive-date=February 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217210638/https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/film/my-grandmother-fanny-kaplan.9324|url-status=dead}}</ref> and screenwriter. She is a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Film Academy (since 2017) and the European Film Academy (since 2018).<ref name="buk_1">{{cite web|url= http://kinobuk.com/cine-process/novi-chleny-efa-ukraine/|title= Нові члени Європейської кіноакадемії від України|website= Бюро української кіножурналістики|date=October 6, 2018}}</ref> In 1990 she graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv Institute of Theater Arts.
== Filmography == A selection of films she has directed: * ''Hutsulka Ksenya'' (2019) also producer and writer * ''Moya babusya Fani Kaplan'' / ''My grandmother Fani Kaplan'' (2016) also producer and writer * ''Mayakovskiy. Dva Dnya'' / ''Mayakovsky. Two days'' (8 part TV mini series) (2013) * ''F 63.9 Bolezn Iyubvi'' / ''F63.9 Love sickness'' (2013)
== Awards and nominations == Winner - 2020 Ukrainian Film Academy Awards (Best Screenplay) for ''Hutsuilka Ksenya,'' also nominated for Best Film.
2014 Odesa International Film Festival national competition for ''F 63.9 Bolezn Iyubvi''
2016 Odesa International Film Festival national competition for ''Moya babusya Fani Kapla''n, which was also nominated for
2017 Ukrainian Film Academy Awards (Best Film, Best Director)
She was also nominated in the Ukrainian Film Critics Awards, with Dmitriy Tomashpolskiy, in 2021 (Best Feature Film) for ''Storonniy'' (2019).
== References == {{Portal|Ukraine|Theater|Film|Biography}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Living people Category:1966 births Category:Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University alumni Category:Ukrainian women screenwriters Category:Ukrainian women film directors Category:Ukrainian film directors Category:Ukrainian film producers Category:Ukrainian women film producers