After months-long tour through Europe and North America, the most famous Ukrainian hip-hop star Alyona Alyona is back in her native village.
When war broke out, Alyona had just started her big tour, a highlight in her musical life up to that point. She was unsure what to do. Back? Performance? She chooses to act. Music is her weapon. When her tour is over, director Elizabeth Salgado follows her on the train journey back to Ukraine.
She celebrates New Year's Eve with her parents. Rocket strikes have also turned everyday life upside down there. But still, they celebrate the turn of the year as they always have. The traditional dinner of vareniky, cucumbers, potatoes and whatever else grows in the garden is now also on the table. For a moment it seems as if the familiar 'ordinary' life eclipses the war.
ELIZABETH ROCHA SALGADO Elizabeth Rocha Salgado is a Brazilian filmmaker based in Itacar�, Bahia. She studied Social
Communication at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Documentary Cinema at the Dutch
Film Academy and Television in Amsterdam and obtained the title of Master in Contemporary
Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
She works as a documentary film director for the Dutch television channel Human. She has
already made series of digital documentaries for acclaimed news organizations like 'De
Correspondent' and ?Amazonia Real?. Her documentaries were shown on various festivals
around the world.
Her films had their premier at the most respected documentary festivals in the world,
Fullframe, Hotdocs and IDFA; in this last one she received the award for best documentary
screenplay in 2007. She was awarded and honored at several film festivals, among them:
Dutch Film Festival (Tuschinski Film Award), Full Frame Festival (honorable mention), Scenecs
Festival (Best Documentary, Best Author Film) and Celkovice Film Festival (Best Film to
Public).
In the area of ??fiction she has always worked in various functions with the aim of learning in the
film sets from different types of productions. She worked as an assistant director for Dutch
director Martijn Smits in the art films: ?C'est d�j� l?�t�? and ?Anvers?; as second assistant in
the film ?Code Blue? by Ursula Antoniak; she did script continuity by Eddy Terstall films;
between others.
In 2015 she was one of the speakers at the TEDx event, where she talked about ?How small
initiatives within the community can transform our lives?.
Access her movies on her website:
https://www.elizabethsalgado.com
