Resume
YURI BARANOVSKY
Professional Experience:
April 2006 – Present
Producer/Writer/Director, Happy Little Guillotine Films
Founder and Head Writer for HLG Films. HLG Films has produced content for: Holiday Inn Express, Davidoff, Camacho, For Your Imagination, C1 Media, Uncensored Interview, Next New Networks, Creative Bubble, MOJO HD and more.
Jan 2009 – Feb. 2009
Show Runner/Writer, Break a Leg (www.breakaleg.tv)
Created and wrote the groundbreaking series, BREAK A LEG (www.breakaleg.tv) – a critically-acclaimed (Wall Street Journal, LA Times, SF Chronicle and many more) and award-winning (Golden Icon Award for Best Internet Comedy, Streamy Award Nominee for Best Writing) internet sitcom.
Jan 2008 – July 2008
Head Writer, MOJO HD (www.mojohd.com/thecircuit)
Responsible for writing, developing and overseeing a writing staff to develop weekly episodes of The Circuit on Mojo HD – a TV and internet series that garnered millions of views during its run.
Jan 2006 – Oct 2008
Screenplay Editor, Writer’s Literary
Read, critiqued and often worked one-on-one with screenwriters to improve script structure, story, character, dialogue and general salability.
Review Quotes/Honors:
BREAK A LEG
“…funny and well-crafted…”
Wall Street Journal
“…a terrifically droll comedy web serial…[it's] The Larry Sanders Show mixed up with Sunset Boulevard.”
The Times (London)
“[Break a Leg] is ahead of its time.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“…[an] edgy and entertaining comedy…”
LA Times
“‘Break a Leg’ proves that Yuri Baranovsky is the Woody Allen of the Web 2.0.”
The Jewish Week