Alena (Olga) Joukova

Alena Joukova – vice-president Toronto Russian Film Festival, program director, journalist, scriptwriter, movie critic and writer. Author and co-author of films "Dikaya Lubov" (1993 year) and "Zefir v Shokolade" (1994 year) In 1994 she emigrated to Canada. In Canada she collaborated with many newspapers and magazines. "Nasha Canada", "Russian Info Toronto", "Canadian Courier", magazine "St.Petersburg" USA - gazeta "Novoe Russkoe Slovo", magazine "Slovo / Word", Russia -Nikita Mihalkov's magazine "Svoy" and electronic magazine "Topos". Ukraine - gazeta "Odesski Vestnik" Alena Joukova is the official representative of the Nikita Mihalkov's magazine "Svoy" in Canada.

In 2009 her book was publish in Nikita Mihalkov's Publishing House by title "K chemu snilis' iabloki Marine". This book was also printed by Moscow Publishing House "EKSMO" in 2010. In March 2011 that Publishing House printed new book of Alena Joukova - "Duet Dlia Odinochestva".

In December 2010 Alena was awarded by prestigious A. P. Chekhov Medal for her achievements in literature.