Oksana Cherkasova

Oksana Cherkasova (Russian: Черкасова Оксана Леонтьевна) - Soviet and Russian director of animation films and animator. She received the State Prize of Russian Federation in 1996. She is a Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, and Member of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science Nika Award. Oksana Cherkasova was born on August 20, 1951, in the city of Norilsk. In 1976 she graduated from the department of Design of the Sverdlovsk Architectural University. Then she worked at the Institute of Technical Aesthetics, and then at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio, as an artist and assistant director. With the film group, she visited many parts of the former USSR. In the years 1979–1981, she studied at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow (in the workshop of Fyodor Khitruk and Yuri Norstein).

From 1981 to 2002 worked at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio, and Studio A-FILM as a director and animator. She's been making films in collaboration with artists Valentin Olshvang, Andrey Zolotukhin, Boris Vishev and others. Since 1991 she has contributed to directing a folklore theatre in Yekaterinburg.

Since 2002, she has been teaching at the Ural State University of Architecture and Art, since 2004 she has been Chair of "Graphics and Computer Animation".