Olga Sinelshchikova

Olga Sinelshchikova has been working in media industry for more than 25 years. She produced Joseph Fiennes' directorial debut The Spirit, winner in the Best Short Film nomination of the "Cinema for Peace" Award in 2008 in Berlin. In 2009-2010 was a board member and director of a Luxembourg based Thema Production which invested in «Matchpoint» by Woody Allen, «Rescue Dawn» by Werner Herzog and many other high-profile international films. In 2010, the American National Television Academy invited her to join the awards committee for Emmy Awards, Telenovela nomination. In 2011-2012, Olga produced an animated feature The Snow Queen, aka Snezhnaya koroleva (Wizart Animation in co-production with Timur Bekmambetov (Bazelevs), which was a success in theatrical release in Russia and more than 170 countries worldwide and became the most successful Russian animation franchise. Among projects Olga is producing at the moment, is an international survival drama «20 Lives» based on a true story, a mystery/thriller/fantasy TV-series "Turned" based on a series of books "The Fifth Level", dramedy "Other Plans".