Ilya Iyunich

Ilya Iyunich is the music project of Ilya Olenev, a Russian creative director, screenwriter, film and music-video director, and musician. Olenev graduated from the screenwriting faculty of VGIK in 1998 and later from Nikita Mikhalkov's Academy of Cinema and Theatre Arts. He worked in advertising as a copywriter at DMB&B and as a creative director at the agency Rodnaya Rech and at Leo Burnett Moscow, and has been an academician of the Russian Academy of Advertising since 2011. He has written screenplays for feature and short films, directed short films, and received an honorary prize at the 2022 Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival of Contemporary Art for the project Radio Egg.