Alisa Kovalenko
Director
Alisa Kovalenko is an award-winning director, born in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, in 1987. After studying journalism, she graduated from the Karpenko-Kary School in Kyiv, specialising in documentary cinema, before also studying under Marcel Łoziński in Warsaw. Her debut documentary was Sister Zo (2014). Her second feature documentary, Alisa in Warland (2015), explored the Maidan revolution and the war in Eastern Ukraine and screened in over 60 festivals. Home Games (2018) was her third feature, followed by We Will Not Fade Away in 2023. Kovalenko is currently serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
