Olga Pärn
* 1976 in Minsk.
Olga Pärn (maiden name: Olga Marchenko) graduated from the Minsk Lyceum of Art in 1994 and from the graphic arts department at the Byelorussian Academy of Art in 2000. She has worked as an art director and animator (specialising in sand animation) in the animation department at Belarusfilm Studio from 1996 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she attened a course in film directing at the La Poudrière animation school in France. Olga Pärn lives and works in Estonia since 2006. She is married to Priit Pärn.
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3540618/
FILMS directed by OLGA PÄRN
Tuukrid Vihmas (Divers in the Rain)
Estonia 2010, 24 min
director/editing: Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn | screenplay: Priit Pärn | production: Kalev Tamm, Eesti Joonisfilm | cinematography: Marje-Ly Liiv
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2011, Animation Avantgarde 3
Awards:
Silver Jabberwocky, Etiuda&Anima Film Festival 2009
Don Quixote Award, Etiuda&Anima Film Festival 2009
Grand Prix ,Anima Festival Brussels 2010
Grand Prix, Montra Lisbon Animation Film Festival 2010
Best Sound Track, Montra Lisbon Animation Film Festival 2010
Grand Prix, Animafest Zagreb 2010
Hiroshima Prize, Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2010
Best Short Film, Festival du nouveau cinéma de Canada 2010
Prize for the Best Medium Length Film, Cinanima Festival 2010
Best Nordic and Baltic Short Film, Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2010
Best Story, Animated Dreams Estonia 2010
OTHER FILMS:
Elu ilma Gabriella Ferrita (2008)
I Feel a Lifelong Bullet In the Back of My Head (2007)
The Dreamer (2005)
A Cat Is a Cat (2004)
William, Miguel an Little Bob (2004)