Vanya Rainova is a writer and producer, supporting
emerging talent and established filmmakers in the
development, production, and distribution of their
author-driven films. She has written and/or produced
several award-winning shorts and documentaries,
which competed in Locarno IFF, Rotterdam IFF,
Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, HotDocs, Vision du Reel and
many others. Bringing that experience into featurelength
fiction, she produced Andrey Paounov’s
debut feature January, which was developed at
TorinoFilmLab 2016, and premiered at Tallinn Black
Nights IFF 2021. Yana Titova’s second feature, Dyad
just opened at Warsaw IFF, followed by Tallinn Black
Nights IFF 2023. Vanya holds an MFA in creative
writing from The University of San Francisco. She is a
graduate of Eurodoc (2015), EAVE (2016), MIDPOINT
Feature Launch (2019) and Biennale College Cinema
(2021). In 2023 she was selected by the European
Film Promotion for the Producers on the Move
programme at Cannes IFF.