Alona Penzii is the Head of the Archive Department at the Dovzhenko Centre, film critic, and curator of film and exhibition projects. She has been working at the Dovzhenko Centre since 2018, focusing on the history of Ukrainian non-fiction and animated films. She has organized retrospectives of Ukrainian animation nationally and internationally (ANIMATOR, The Cinémathèque Française, StopTrik, LINOLEUM) and co-curated film programs at the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture (DCCC) in 2022–24. In 2023, she co-curated the exhibition The River Wailed Like a Wounded Beast within the Kyiv Biennial.