Alisa Kovalenko

Birthday: 1987-09-24
Birthplace: Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zaporizhia, Ukraine]
Gender: Female

Alisa Kovalenko (Ukrainian: Аліса Коваленко; 24 September 1987; Zaporozhye) is a Ukrainian documentary director. She graduated the Karpenko-Kary University of Cinema of Kyiv and the Andrzej-Wajda cinema school of Warsaw. Her first feature-documentary "Alisa in Warland"premiered at IDFA Amsterdam in 2015 in the First appearance competition. Alisa’s second documentary, "Home Games" was again an IDFA selection, selected in more than 120 festiovals and being the first Ukrainian creative film acquired by Netflix. Alisa has become a member of The European Film Academy (EFA) in 2019. She's the programmer of the Molodist Kyiv FF documentary competition. In March 2022, she went to fight for her country in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Credits

Year Title
Front
2023-11-18 Girl Away from Home
2023-02-22 We Will Not Fade Away
2018-07-19 Home Games
2017-03-31 Home Match
2015-11-19 Alisa in Warland
2014-10-27 Sister Zo
2012-11-01 Beyond Euro