Andrea Odezynska is a Ukrainian American independent filmmaker. She has created narrative, documentary, and experimental films. Variety has praised her work's “beautiful, iconic images.”
Recently, Andrea won a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant to research and film her new environmental feature documentary, “Return Sasyk To The Sea”, in Ukraine. Past grants include: NEA The National Endowment for the Arts, NYSCA The New York State Council on the Arts, and the Robert Wise Foundation. Festivals include: The Hamptons Film Festival, Rotterdam, Kansas City Kansas Film Festival, Through Women’s Eyes International Film Festival in Sarasota, Florida, The Princeton Environmental Film Festival, The Rural Route Film Festival, Craft In Focus Festival in Amsterdam, Holland, and many more.
Notable museum screenings include her film, “Felt, Feelings and Dreams” being shown at The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, The Ukrainian Museum in New York’s East Village, and The Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan. This film is now part of the permanent collection of the Musee du Feutre (Mouzon, France).
Andrea holds an MFA in Directing from AFI: The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, CA.