Documentary professor Goldovskaya honored

The Daily Bruin reports on the award for Scholarship and Preservation conferred recently upon professor Marina Goldovskaya by the International Documentary Association (IDA). The director of 30 documentaries over a 40-year career, and a full-time professor at UCLA since 1995, Goldovskaya began making films in her native Russia in the mid-1960s.

"I started in the middle of the '60s after graduating from the department of cinematography at Moscow State Film Institute," she said. "Later, I started working on documentaries [for state-run TV] and later still worked on my [own] films. That's what I am doing up till now."
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"I started teaching at Moscow State University when I was 23 years old," Goldovskaya said. "My students were older than I was and practically half of the Russian journalists were my students at one point because Moscow State University was the best university and best department for journalism."

While Goldovskaya has covered a variety of different subjects in her long career as a documentarian, many of her documentaries have been based on the differing aspects of Russian life.

"I'm interested in understanding my own people and myself," she said. "My goal is usually to express the life of Russia … life of the country, slice of the society, slice of life. It helps people understand how the country functioned."

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