EUGENE IZRAYLIT

Agent: Julian Friedmann

Biography: EUGENE IZRAYLIT is a multiple award–winning Russian American screenwriter, director and producer who most recently released two successful series, THE GIG (2022) and PASSENGERS (2020-2022), on the international streaming service START. 

In 2015, Eugene wrote and directed IN PUTIN WE TRUST, a documentary for the French– German television channel ARTE which dissected the effect of government propaganda on Russian citizens. In 2019, Eugene wrote and directed a multi–lingual short film set in Paris called A MAN NEVER and in 2021. He also wrote and directed a Nairobi set short film called VIEW FROM ABOVE.

More recently Eugene has completed a feature length comedy about London called THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE for Access Entertainment (I, TONYA, ZONE OF INTEREST) and an adaptation of Guzel Yakhina’s award–winning THE CONVOI TO SAMARKAND.

Following the beginning of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Eugene has left Russia and currently lives between Paris and London.