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Eugene Kotlyarenko

Born January 1, 1986 · Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine] (age 40)

Eugene Kotlyarenko is a Ukrainian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His feature writing-directing work includes 0s & 1s (2011), A Wonderful Cloud (2015), Wobble Palace (2018), We Are (2020) and Spree (2020). Kotlyarenko was born in Odesa to a Jewish-Ukrainian family. He grew up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and on Long Island, attending Columbia University before moving to …

Known For

Primetime

Primetime · 2026

MovieDramaThriller

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

The Carpenter's Son

The Carpenter's Son · 2025

The Carpenter's Son

MovieHorrorFantasy

A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.

Our Hero, Balthazar

Our Hero, Balthazar · 2026

Our Hero, Balthazar

MovieDramaComedy

Eager to impress his activist crush, a wealthy New York teenager follows an online connection to Texas, where he's convinced he can stop an act of extreme violence.

Spree

MovieComedyHorror

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

The Sweet East

The Sweet East · 2023

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

How to Blow Up a Pipeline · 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

MovieCrimeDrama

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

The Scary of Sixty-First

The Scary of Sixty-First · 2021

The Scary of Sixty-First

MovieHorrorMystery

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

Entertainment Evolved

Entertainment Evolved

Entertainment Evolved

MovieComedyHorror

Actor Todd Turnquist learns the secrets to Hollywood success.

Filmography

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Primetime

Primetime · 2026

MovieDramaThriller

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

Thanks

The Carpenter's Son

The Carpenter's Son · 2025

The Carpenter's Son

MovieHorrorFantasy

A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.

Producer

Our Hero, Balthazar

Our Hero, Balthazar · 2026

Our Hero, Balthazar

MovieDramaComedy

Eager to impress his activist crush, a wealthy New York teenager follows an online connection to Texas, where he's convinced he can stop an act of extreme violence.

Executive Producer

Spree

MovieComedyHorror

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

Director

The Sweet East

The Sweet East · 2023

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.

Thanks

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

How to Blow Up a Pipeline · 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

MovieCrimeDrama

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

Executive Producer

The Scary of Sixty-First

The Scary of Sixty-First · 2021

The Scary of Sixty-First

MovieHorrorMystery

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

Thanks

Entertainment Evolved

Entertainment Evolved

Entertainment Evolved

MovieComedyHorror

Actor Todd Turnquist learns the secrets to Hollywood success.

Executive Producer

Vintage Violence

Vintage Violence · 2026

Vintage Violence

MovieActionComedy

When a disgraced livestreamer discovers a trove of rare vintage denim in a Colorado mine, he follows it to Tokyo and straight into the arms of a woman who may be using him. Caught between desire and betrayal, he soon finds himself entangled in black-market turf wars, yakuza, and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Director

Pet Shop Days

Pet Shop Days · 2025

MovieDramaRomance

On the run from his unforgiving father in Mexico, Alejandro finds himself in New York City, where he meets Jack, a pet store employee with similar parental baggage. Together the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. When Alejandro’s past threatens to catch up with him, Jack is forced to choose between his family and a life on the run.

Executive Producer

Rotting in the Sun

Rotting in the Sun · 2023

Rotting in the Sun

MovieComedyThriller

A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.

Executive Producer

Atropia

Atropia · 2025

MovieComedyDrama

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

Thanks

The Code

The Code · 2025

MovieRomanceComedy

While isolated at a remote rental house early in the pandemic, a recently canceled man grows dangerously paranoid about his portrayal in his partner's documentary on their failing relationship and installs hidden cameras to spy on her.

Director

Magic Farm

Magic Farm · 2025

A misguided American documentary crew working for an edgy media company travels to rural Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong small town. As they collaborate with locals to attempt to fabricate a viral trend, unexpected connections blossom, while a pervasive crisis looms unacknowledged in the background.

Producer

El Planeta

El Planeta · 2021

MovieComedyDrama

Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.

Thanks

Cece's Interlude

Cece's Interlude · 2025

Cece's Interlude

When a wannabe documentarian sees a viral video of a young trans woman claiming to be pregnant, she thinks she found the perfect subject for her next film.

The Water Is Always Warm

The Water Is Always Warm · 2026

The Water Is Always Warm

Follows the dissolution of a friendship as one friend becomes involved in a controversial religion. The haunted comedy unfolds through a series of dinners over the course of several years, each date farther apart than the last.

Wobble Palace

Wobble Palace · 2018

MovieRomanceComedy

A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.

Director

Harka

Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies, he is forced to care for his two younger sisters who have been left to their own devices in a house from which they will soon be evicted. As he wrestles with the sudden weight of responsibility and the injustices he faces, anger and indignation stir within Ali – that of a generation still fighting to be heard more than a decade after the revolution…

Producer

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission) · 2010

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)

A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.

Producer

In the Glow of Darkness

In the Glow of Darkness · 2025

In the Glow of Darkness

MovieScience Fiction

As a young hacker challenges the corporation behind Meme—a drug that mines users’ psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads—intersecting stories unfold in strange, fractured rhythms.

Actors

MovieDramaComedy

Actor-filmmaker Peter Vack decides to re-identify as female to maintain relevance in the art and entertainment world. This horrifies Peter's sister Betsey and makes her spiral deep into a mania of sibling rivalry as she desperately searches for her own artistic voice.

Thanks

0s & 1s

0s & 1s · 2011

MovieComedyDrama

Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.

Director

Feast of Burden

Feast of Burden · 2012

Feast of Burden

MovieComedyRomance

A group of old friends gather for a dinner party full of dark secrets, mysterious forces and deadly consequences.

Screenplay