Irina Margolina

Irina Margolina is a Russian screenwriter, producer and director, born in Roslavl, Smolensk Oblast. A graduate of the editorial faculty of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, she has written more than 150 screenplays, including documentaries, and worked as an animation writer for Soyuzmultfilm, Multtelefilm, Gruziya-Film and the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. In 1992 she co-founded the Moscow studio M.I.R. with director Mark Lyakhovetsky and remains its general producer; there she created the educational animated series Tales of the Old Piano and the Children's Album project. She also wrote and directed documentary cycles on animation history, including Animation from A to Z (1998) and The Animated Century (2003), and taught European animation history and animation screenwriting at the School of Visual Arts in the USA (1995–96, 2001–06).

May 27, 1953