Eugene Kotlyarenko

Eugene Kotlyarenko is a UkrainianAmerican film director screenwriter producer and actor His feature writingdirecting work includes 0s 1s 2011 A Wonderful Cloud 2015 Wobble Palace 2018 We Are 2020 and Spree 2020 Kotlyarenko was born in Odesa to a JewishUkrainian family He grew up in Brighton Beach Brooklyn and on Long Island attending Columbia University before moving to Los Angeles In 2010 He made his directorial debut SkyDiver Instructional Video 4 Preparation for Mission starring Kate Lyn Sheil Lawrence Michael Levine and Sophia Amoruso The next year He cowrote edited and directed 0s 1s starring Morgan Krantz Jeremy Blackman Matty Cardarople and Ahna OReilly In 2012 He wrote starred and directed Feast of Burden premiered at The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles In 2015 A Wonderful Cloud starring Kate Lyn Sheil John Ennis and himself premiered at the SXSW Film Festival In 2018 Kotlyarenko wrote starred and directed Wobble Palace starring Dasha Nekrasova Jack Kilmer and himself The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival to positive reviews with New York Times critic Teo Bugbee praising the film as a sendup of brokeartist types that shimmers with abashed affection A review on The Playlist by Lena Wilson echoed this sentiment writing that it perfectly reproduces a subculture both visually and narratively In 2020 Kotlyarenko wrote produced starred and directed Spree starring Joe Keery Sasheer Zamata David Arquette Kyle Mooney Lala Kent and Mischa Barton the film was executive produced by Drake It premiered on January 24 2020 at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival as part of the NEXT category and was released theatrically and via video on demand in the United States on August 14 2020 by RLJE Films The same year he wrote and directed We Are starring Dasha Nekrasova Keith Poulson and Vishwam Velandy In 2024 He wrote starred and directed The Code It stars Dasha Nekrasova Peter Vack and Ivy Wolk it premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival He has executive produced films such as How to Blow Up a Pipeline Pet Shop Days Rotting in the Sun and the upcoming The Carpenters Son He has also produced films such as Harka Magic Farm Candelabra and the upcoming Born to Kill