Biography

Yelena Yatsura is an independent film producer. She has collaborated with "Slovo", "Non-Stop Productions", "Bogwood Kino" and "Filmocom" film companies. At the moment she works with "Trikita Entertainment". Yelena Yatsura had won the Best Producer of the CIS and Baltic Countries award at the Open Film Festival "Kinoshok" in 2003. She is two-time award winner of the "Nika" Russian National Film Award as the Best Fiction Film Producer ("Our Own", 2004 and "9th Company", 2005) and the award winner of the "Golden Eagle" National Film Award as the Best Fiction Film Producer of 2005 ("9th Company"). Her resume contains a good 15 debut works by various directors including: the future hit makers Philipp Yankovsky (In Motion, 2002) and Fedor Bondarchuk ("9th Company", 2005); the prize winners of the A-class international film festivals - Alexey German-jr. ("The Last Train", 2003) and Ilya Khrzhanovsky ("4",2004); and symbolic representatives of Russian artistic circle Konstantin Murzenko ("April", 2001) and Renata Litvinova ("The Goddess: How I Fell In Love", 2004). At the moment Yelena Yatsura is preparing for release of two debut films. She is also collaborating in script writing with the most important Russian authors - Vladimir Sorokin and Maxim Kurochkin. One of these works or its combination could be that new step that she is looking for in her producer's activity. Yatsura says: "The task for producer is to hear the time, to guess a little bit ahead and to connect people who can express it so that they were in resonance to each other. In order to find the answer we have to set many known and unknown quantities: just because I've graduated the Mathematical school".
- IMDb mini biography by: Alexey Vasiliev