Olha Symonenko

Biography

Olha Symonenko is a documentary producer with experience as a director and editor. Previously, she worked as an assistant general producer and production editor in television. She has a degree in history and has been doing genealogical research on families from Eastern Europe for more than 10 years, also recording oral history memories and testimonies in the form of short documentary essays, thus documenting important historical events. She headed the documentary department of the international online archive Post Bellum-Ukraine, where she produced about 70 documentary long oral history interviews. Olha is also a graduate of the IDFA Academy, EURODOC, EAVE-CHANGE, IDFA Project Space, and American Film Showcase. In 2023, she founded her own film production company, "eidos.productions", which she is currently developing.