Sofia Rimskaya is a graduate of London Film School, Sundance Collab and John Yorke Story. She has written, directed and produced a number of short films and worked as an assistant on international feature film productions. Sofia is an alumna of the Eureka training programme Fall 2023 edition at Series Mania Institute and Torino Film Lab NEXT TV Series 2024. Merkin has been shortlisted for the Studio21 script competition in association with Content London 2024 and was nominated for the Best Pre-development Project Award in the Scripted Series category at NEM Zagreb 2024.