Helga Olshvang

About

Helga Landauer Olshvang was born in Moscow, where she graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. She wrote numerous screenplays for feature, animation and documentary films, and worked at Russian National Television directing programs for broadcast. Helga has lived and worked in the United States since 1996 as a writer, poet and a filmmaker. Her films include (1998), A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich (2006, co-directed with Oksana Dvornichenko), (2008), (2009), Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear (2011) and Arcadia (2015). They have been screened at many international film festivals and significant American and European venues, including the Louvre and Carnegie Hall. She has authored five books of poetry, under the name of Helga Olshvang: (Composer Publishing House); (Pushkinskiy Fond), Versions of the Present (Russian Gulliver Publishing) and The Three (Ailuros, NY). Her poetry has also been published and reviewed in preeminent Russian literary magazines and anthologies.