Helga Landauer

Helga Landauer : Хельга Ольшванг) is a film director, writer and a poet, based in New York City.  She is best known for her work on the documentaries A Film About Anna Akhmatova and A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich and wrote screenplay for Crystal Swan.

Life and career
Landauer was born in 1969 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. She moved to the United States in 1996 and lives in New York City with her family.

In 1998, Landauer's debut documentary feature, Being Far from Venice, was featured in Anthology Film Archives series and screened at IDFA. A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich (2006), co-directed with Oksana Dvornichenko, premiered at Carnegie Hall and Louvre Museum in Paris. A Film About Anna Akhmatova (2008), was premiered at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Her films were featured in many international film festivals, including Mar del Plata International Film Festival and Cinéma du Réel among others. She was a screenwriter for a Belarusian film, Crystal Swan.

Books

 * 96th Book
 * The Reed (Тростник) ISBN 5-89803-104-9
 * Poetry Works (Стихотворения) ISBN 5-89803-133-2
 * Versions of the Present (Версии настоящего) ISBN 978-5-91627-078-5
 * The Three (Трое) ISBN 978-1-938781-36-0
 * The Blue is White (Голубое это белое) ISBN 978-5-86856-291-4
 * Scrolls (Свертки) ISBN 978-5-6040343-8-5