Yanna Buryak is the founder of MIMESIS, a full-cycle film production company, and VOSTOK, the first Russian short film agency. She graduated from the Moscow Economics School and then the London MET Film School in 2014 with a degree in production. Since 2015 she specialises in the international co-production of auteur-driven cinema, with a special focus on hybrid and new media films. Mimesis productions have produced films in Russia, Italy, Greece, Brazil and the UK, in co-production with France, Germany, the Netherlands and Kosovo.