Ilya Olenev

Recognized creative professional, academician of the Russian Academy of Advertising, winner of numerous international awards. 

Professional screenwriter. Author of full-length and short film scripts “Odyssey 1989”, “Golden Age”, “Call Me Genie”, “Chagall’s Original”, “My Friend’s Closet”, “Love Forever”, “The Apparition”. 

Musician, composer, music producer. Music video director and screenwriter. He has his own label and musical project Ilya Iyunich. 

Winner of the honorary prize of the International Festival of Contemporary Art Sergei Kuryokhin 2022 for the project “Radio Egg”. 

Film director. Films “The Phenomenon”, “Love Forever”, participant and winner of film festivals. 

Education: Odessa University, The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Nikita Mikhalkov’s Academy of Cinema and Theater Arts.