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    HELGA LANDAUER OLSHVANG was born in Moscow, where she graduated from Institute of Cinematography.

    Helga has lived and worked in the United States since 1996 as a writer and a filmmaker. Her films include Being Far from Venice (1998), A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich (2006, co-directed with Oksana Dvornichenko), A Film About Anna Akhmatova (2008), Diversions (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 seven books of poetry, under the name of Helga Olshvang: 96th Book (Composer Publishing House); The Reed and Poetry Works (Pushkinskiy Fond), Versions of the Present (Russian Gulliver Publishing)The Three (Ailuros, NY)The Blue is White (ARGO-RISK Publishing House) and the bilingual book Scrolls (Cultural Revolution Publishing). Her poetry has also been published and reviewed in preeminent literary magazines and anthologies, including The Plume, Translit, Modern Poetry in Translation. The movie she wrote, Crystal Swan (dir. Darya Zhuk) was selected as Belarusian entry for the best foreign language film at the 91 Academy Awards.
    Helga’s narrative film project “Photographers”, taking place in Ukraine, have been endorsed by New York Foundation for the Arts, her current feature, “William and Fred”, which she directed in co-wrote with Paul Lazar in 2021, is currently in post-production stage.

    Helga currently lives in New York with her family.

    Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 5 p.m.
    “Photographers” is moving ever closer towards kicking off its production
    “Photographers” is moving ever closer towards kicking off its production
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    We are happy to announce that “Photographers” is moving ever closer towards kicking off its production under the fiscal sponsorship of the New York Foundation for the Arts. We have launched a campaign for tax deductible donations which will go toward filming the portions of the film which are to be shot in rural locations in New York state. You

    Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 8 p.m.
    Book reading from the new poetry collection
    Book reading from the new poetry collection
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    Book reading from the new poetry collection. In Russian. Theatre of Nations, 12/2 Strastnoy Boulevard, Moscow, Russia, 105005

    Tuesday, November 27, 2018
    Book release: “Scrolls”, the bilingual book of poems by Helga Olshvang
    Book release: “Scrolls”, the bilingual book of poems by Helga Olshvang
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    Book release: “Scrolls”, the bilingual book of poems by Helga Olshvang, “Cultural Revolution” Publishing, Moscow, 2018

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