I'm going to go ahead and post my bio here, written in third person, because that's the kind of unlikable person that I am.Yuri Baranovsky is one of the founders of Happy Little Guillotine Studios (www.hlgstudios.com) — a creative agency and production company on the forefront of online entertainment. HLG Studios created the hit branded series LEAP YEAR (www.hulu.com/leap-year), which aside from garnering over 10 million views and multiple awards (NATPE's Digital Luminary Award, Streamys' Best Branded Series, IAWTV Best Drama Series), gave the brand, Hiscox Insurance, a 35% bump in sales and insurance quotes. HLG Studios has also created some of the web’s biggest branded campaigns, including the Slurpee Unity Tour - winner of the PRO CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR award. Both campaigns (and all HLG Studios work) were directed and co-written by Yuri. Most recently, HLG Studios created a pilot for the hit series, BINGE (www.bingetheseries.com) - garnering nearly a million views and raising over 40,000 dollars in an IndieGoGo campaign, three music videos for EVAN RACHEL WOOD's band, "REBEL AND THE BASKETCASE" and are currently looking for buyers for their Disney-produced (and fully completely) series, DAN IS DEAD.Aside from his work at HLG Studios, Yuri has also written/directed several TV show pilots for networks like the Sundance Channel, TruTV, CollegeHumor’s ‘Dropout’ and more.Finally, Yuri is a thrice-published, internationally produced playwright — a fact that he likes to share quietly, in dark places, where theater still matters and the names of Neil Simon, David Ives and Tom Stoppard still bring with them a God-like reverence.Specialties: Acting, writing, directing, producing, graphic art, storyboarding, screenplay and teleplay editing**Buy my book! Scriptwriting 2.0: Writing for the Digital Age -- the first textbook for writing for new media, written by Yuri, his brother, and Marie Drennan. Get it here: http://www.hh-pub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=230