Marianna Yarovskaya

Marianna Yarovskaya (born in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian-American documentary filmmaker.
In 1998 Yarovskaya directed Undesirables, which won a Student Academy Award, a College Television Award at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation and screened at the Kodak Filmmaker showcase at the Cannes Film Festival. Her film Holy Warriors, is a study of soldiers who found religion. She is also a director of the feature documentary film Women of the Gulag.
She was head of research on the Academy Award-winning films An Inconvenient Truth (2007),.
She worked in producing and research departments on award-winning feature documentaries Countdown to Zero (2010), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001), Samsara (2012) and Greedy Lying Bastards (2012).
Yarovskaya obtained a Master of Arts in Journalism/Editing and Publishing from Russia's Moscow State University and later graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Personal life
Yarovskaya was born in Moscow, Russia. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Film awards
* Winner - 2001 Student Academy Award (Bronze) - Undesirables
* Winner - 2000 College TV Arts and Sciences - Undesirables
* Winner - Best Documentary Short - Undesirables, Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada 2000
* Nominee - Student International Documentary Association Award - Undesirables, IDA Awards 1999
* Finalist - MTV Awards - Undesirables, DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival 2001
* Winner - Best Documentary Short - Holy Warriors, ECU European Union Film Festival 2007
* Winner - Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary - Holy Warriors, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia and Montenegro 2007
* Nominee - Arms Control Person(s) of the Year, Writer-Director Lucy Walker and her collaborators on Countdown to Zero, Arms Control Association 2010
Published works
*Underground (article) (October 1996)

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