The recipient of the 2004 Hollywood Trident Scholarship, Olenka has written, directed and produced numerous shorts including The Summons, which premiered at the 2009 LA Shorts Fest, and Timing, Best Comedic Short at the 2010 Strasbourg International Film Festival. Her book trailer for Collected Fictions, by Gordon Lish was nominated for a 2010 Moby Award and honored as one of the top 15 book trailers of the year by The Daily Beast. Her screen adaptation of Alexander J. Motyl's novel Who Killed Andrei Warhol advanced to the unofficial second round of competition in the Sundance Writer's Lab.