About Us

ABOUT US

Our vision: To rekindle a love for the arts and an appreciation for those driven by the passion to create.

Yelena Demikovsky
Founder

Yelena Demikovsky is a person of the widest culture and vast intellectual curiosity. I have never failed to be fascinated by her technical perspicacity, her analytic grasp of the theatrical process, and her general enthusiasm, which is only matched by her shrewd insights.

Clive Barnes
Senior Consulting Editor, Dance Magazine
Chief Dance, Drama & Opera critic/New York Post

Yelena Demikovsky is founder of Red Palette Pictures. Born in Russia, she has lived in the United States for more than 15 years. She is a documentary and narrative filmmaker with a broad theatre background in the United States and Russia.

Demikovsky has directed three full-length documentaries —Unity, the award-winning The Story of Fenist and happy to be so…, which had its world premiere in January 2008 at the Dance on Camera Film Festival at the Lincoln Center, NY. Her narrative short, Shell, received two Honorable Mention awards and became an Official Selection at the Barcelona Short Film Festival.

She is in post-production of the documentary, Vera… An Intimate Sketch and a short, Mamma+Daddy=Love, in production And Then Comes the Glory…, about famed ballet star, Rudolf Nureyev.

In addition, she has written five short scripts, two feature scripts and a two-act play.

Demikovsky has produced two symposia about Rudolf Nureyev — one in New York (1997), the other in St. Petersburg, Russia (1998). She also contributed interviews and translations to four authors of Nureyev biographies.

Demikovsky was guest director of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and directed for Soho Rep in New York City.

Demikovsky has two masters degrees, one in theatre (Moscow, Russia), and another in video (Boston, USA) and had taught theatre directing in Moscow.

Yelena's pictures

	John Burns Consultant Editor John Burns is an expert in Final Cut Pro and has used one-on-one training techniques to help others master the program. Previously he was an Avid editor, cutting commercial for advertising agencies such as Grey, McCann Erickson, and Bates Worldwide, to name a few. Burns was also the Web developer for the Red Palette Web site. www.finalcutproclasses.com; www.macclasses.com

	Sara Martinez Project Manager Sara Martinez, a graduate of Pratt Institute's Film and Media Arts Program and photographer. Sara has a fundamental artistic interest in many aspects of still and moving imagery and is committed to working with Red Palette Pictures in their mission. Sara is involved in various administrative and creative tasks.

	Leslie J. Yerman Project Representative Leslie J. Yerman helps documentary filmmakers and other industry members bring their projects to fruition — drawing from her more than 20 years of communications, special events, development and administrative expertise. She is associate producer of And Then Comes the Glory…, as well as of Jokerman (for LowlandsFilm). Formerly VP/Communications for New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), her clients have included Bohm Productions, Isaac Solotaroff Productions, Chalice Well Productions and Touchbase Productions for whom she has provided marketing and outreach, film festival strategies, development and other services. www.lesliejyerman.com.

	Fatima Benbrahim Editor Fatima Benbrahim was editor on Shell and happy to be so..., a Red Palette documentary. Her experience working for various international television stations — PBS/WNET Thirteen, TV5, France 2, France 3, Al-Jazeera, MBC, Abu Dhabi TV and Morocco’s 2M TV — and renowned film directors has given her universal exposure. She has worked in many formats and editing systems.

	Erin Heath Project Assistant Erin Heath, a recent graduate from Pratt Institute's Writing for Publication, Performance, and Media program, assists Red Palette Pictures in publicity among a range of areas. She works in the editorial deptartment at a children's educational publisher in Manhattan as well as Ugly Duckling Presse, a nonprofit independent publisher, in Brooklyn. She creates handmade books that often feature her own photography, and writes book reviews for The Brooklyn Rail.