Ilona has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist, editor and producer. A graduate from the Moscow State University, for the last 13 years she has been working for the BBC. Although she has produced various TV docs, this is her first independently produced and directed feature length documentary. Hence it was important for her to choose a story no one else could tell in a way she was able to tell it. Apart from storytelling she’s passionate about sailing, as an amateur ocean racer she has crossed the Atlantic and the Southern Oceans. Ilona lives and works in London.