Alena Lodkina is a Russian-born Australian filmmaker and writer. Her fiction and documentary short films have screened internationally. Alena’s writing on film has appeared in Senses of Cinema, 4:3 Journal, Meanjin, and Fireflies.
Her first feature film, Strange Colours (2017), which she directed and co-wrote, was developed through the Venice Biennale College. It premiered at Venice Film Festival and toured around the world before its cinematic release in Australia. Petrol (2022), her second feature film as writer and director, premiered at Locarno Film Festival and was shown at New Directors/ New Series at Lincoln Centre and MoMa in 2023.
While at MacDowell, Lodkina completed the first draft of her third feature film script Twice Over.
