Elena Yatsura

Yelena Yatsura (Russian: Елена Яцура; born January 23, 1968 in Krasnodar, Russia) is an independent film producer. She has collaborated with “Slovo”, “Non-Stop Production”, “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 a two-time winner of the “Nika” Russian National Film Award as the Best Fiction Film Producer (“Our Own”, 2004 and The 9th Company, 2005) and the winner of the “Golden Eagle” National Film Award as the Best Fiction Film Producer of 2005 (“9th Company”).Her resume contains 15 debut works by various directors including: Philipp Yankovsky (In Motion, 2002) and Fedor Bondarchuk (The 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).In 2008 Sergei Dvortsevoy with Tulpan, an ethnic film about Kazakh nomads that received international awards including "Un Certain Regard Award" in Cannes and outstanding reviews