Egor Abramenko is an established award-winning director of commercials and music videos from Russia. He graduated from The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 2009 and immediately dove into the world of music videos and commercials. Since then, he has been honing his craft and evolving as a genre-oriented director working with such brands as Google, BMW, Visa, Samsung, Danone, Budweiser, and many others. In 2017 he made a sci-fi thriller short THE PASSENGER which was selected for Fantastic Fest. Shortly after, Egor started to work on his first feature, SPUTNIK, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, before a wide-release in Russia by Sony and a U.S release by IFC Films.