Indira Yakovenko

Her passion for the film industry was born far before her first visit to the Cannes audiovisual market and her thesis topic was "The Russian identity through international film and TV markets" (defended successfully at Nice Sophia-Antipolis University).

She inherited it from her father : an Ukrainian filmmaker. A journalist for business and secular press in Ukraine (Kyiv), she came to France to study anthropology. Working with the Russian delegation to MIPTV
and Monte Carlo Television Festival as well as with French and English companies for the Cannes Film market and MIPCOM, she set up contacts between Russian and international producers.

Her principal aim is to help young talented filmmakers to be commercially and artistically successful in international film and TV markets and industries.