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| Marina Goldovskaya - Russia's filmmaker
In the USA, Marina first got recognition for her feature legth documentary "Solovky Power" which was the first film revealing the horrors of the Soviet concentration camps. The film premiered in the USA at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989 where it received high appreciation of the audience and a special certificate of acknowledgement from the Jury. "Solovky Power" has a world wide theatrical distribution and received several prestigious professional awards. In 1990, she made "A Taste of Freedom" for Turner Television (TNT), giving the world the first glimpses of the effects of perestroika, started by Gorbachev, by relating the life of a Moscow journalist and his family. In “The House on Arbat Street”, which she made for Canal+ (France), through the destinies of the people who lived in one Moscow building, she told the story of Russia in the 20th century. This film had been aired on many European TV channels and in Canada, and received many international awards, such as the Best Film of the year Award at Prix Europe in 1994, The Ester Prize in Washington, DC, and the Grand Prix at the Film Festival in Monte Carlo.
The 2007 Santa Fe Film Festival honored Marina with their Luminaria Award presenting the Goldovskaya retrospective. "The House on Arbat Street" (1993), "The Prince is Back" (2004) were featured. " Solvky Power", her groundbreaking film on Stalin's gulags, anchored the Tribute. The
Santa Fe Film Festival is grateful to Francesca Ursone, Moscow Art
Theatre
and actress who brought Marina Goldovskaya into the Santa Fe
Film Festival. They appeared, along with legendary casting director Lynn
Stahlmaster,
actor/producer Valentin DeVargas in a prestigious panel examining
the legacy of Lee Strasberg, famed acting teacher. Jon Bowman, executive
director and Stephen Rubin, deputy director of the Santa Fe Film Festival,
are appreciate to the beauty and creative career of their Luminaria,
Marina
Goldovskaya.
Photographer Linda Carfagno
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Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers
with a strong international reputation. She has made 32 documentary films
and more than 100 TV programs for Russian, Austrian, French, German and
American Television. During her long career as Director, Producer, Cinematographer
and Writer, she has won virtually every prize there is to win in the
area of documentary filmmaking.
Parallel to her career as a filmmaker, Goldovskaya has pursued a teaching
and academic carreer. She taught documentary in Moscow State University
(1966-1995) and has written six books on documentary filmmaking. "A
Woman With A Movie Camera" was featured at her booksigning during
the Santa Fe Film Festival Milagro Awards. Marina currently heads the
documentary film program in the School of Theatre, Film & Television
at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also served as a visiting
professor at UC San Diego, Vassar College and California State University,
Northridge (USA) before becoming a full-time professor at UCLA in 1995.
