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