Aliona Penzii

Aliona Penzii is a researcher at the Dovzhenko Centre, film critic and cultural manager. Since 2018, she has been working at the Dovzhenko Centre, where she focuses on the history of Ukrainian non-fiction film, in particular animation. She has organized retrospectives of Ukrainian animation at international and Ukrainian venues (ANIMATOR, The Cinémathèque Française, StopTrik, LINOLEUM). She co-curated the Future and Frontline Geographies film programs at the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture (DCCC). She is a board member at the National Film Critics Award “KINOKOLO.” As a film critic, she contributed to LB.ua, Ukrainska Pravda and other media.