Irina Mishina

Irina is a Russian-born, British-educated director/writer/producer who holds multiple degrees in Music and Art, Theater Directing and Filmmaking. As a teenager she won a city-wide writing competition in her native St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and was accepted into the St. Petersburg Academy of Dramatic Arts. After moving from Russia to London she studied Directing and Producing at the British National Film and Television School (number 1 in the 2014 Hollywood Reporter top 15 International film schools). As a London-based independent producer, Irina wrote, developed, directed and produced numerous documentary series, feature documentaries and drama-docs for BBC, TBS, PBS, Discovery and Channel Four television networks, including "Black Square" (BBC) and "The Art of Survival" (series for BBC). Among her many credits as a theatre director is "Chekhov's "Seagull" and Gogol's "Marriage", staged in Toronto, Canada. Irina's work in feature films began under the mentorship of Robert Watts, former president of Lucasfilm U.K. In partnership with Mr. Watts, she developed features such as "The Last Days of the Romanovs" as well as two films for Mosfilm Studios. Irina's original feature scripts became finalists and have won multiple screenwriting awards including Nicholl Fellowship, Screenwriting Expo, Scriptapalooza and have been optioned and/or sold to Miramax, HBO, A&E as well as independent production companies. She is known for generating high-quality original material. Based in Los Angeles, Irina speaks fluent English and Russian and conversational German.