Ilya Andilevko was born in Tambov, lived in Karelia for many years. Graduated from St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinematography and Television (workshop of V.F. Semenyuk and A.P. Krivonos). Participant and winner of domestic and foreign film festivals, including "Russia", "Flahertiana", Cefalu film festival (Italy), DGIFF (Algeria), Short shot fest (Moscow), Himachal short film festival (India), Gandhara film festival (Pakistan) and others. Winner of the documentary film laboratory "73doc".