ABOUT US
 

Lana Parshina - Founder/Creative Director/Executive Manager


With multiple academic degrees, Lana Parshina initially worked as a Russian/English/German interpreter, a freelance journalist, and a public relations consultant/crisis manager. But, films and filmmaking was her passion and she left a vibrant career in crisis management to embrace her dream. Having produced several independent films in New York, she recently joined efforts with a few LA based companies and investors to produce high quality films with budgets ranging from $2.5M to $10M. One of the projects in development, a romantic comedy titled "The Wine Affair", is going to be shot in Long Island Wine Country and Tuscany. It was when she did location scouting for "The Wine Affair" in Long Island, she fell in love with the beauty of Long Island Wine Country region and wanted to give something back in return. Having experience in film production and film festival/events production, she teamed up with Martha Clara Vineyard and Cinderella Travel to start a tradition of Long Island Wine Country Film Festival.

Lana Parshina resides in New York, but currently splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

 
Natalie Azarov - FOUNDING SPONSOR /CHIEF COODINATOR
 


Natalie Azarov always had passion for wineries in particular and fine living in general. Natalie has visited vineyards in Burgundy, Toscany, Israel and California. She empbaced her passion by starting a travel business that would accomodate and fulfill her clients needs to enjoy fine living while traveling for business or pleasure. Natalie Azarov is the president of three companies, American Educational Processing center Inc., Cinderella Travel Corp and American Getaways. The first two companies were established in 1995 under the premise of providing corporate as well as leisure travel services. Cinderella Travel Corp. specializes in travel arrangements to all CIS countries, including visas, airtickets, accommodations, tours, translations as well as all others travel services.

AEPC Inc. specializes in arranging business trips to the United States for businessmen and businesswomen from Russia. AEPC Inc. is responsible for introducing company representatives and executives from more then 250 corporations to innovative technologies, state of the art equipment as well as to American management practices.

American Getaways specializes in serving luxury markets and arranging trips to destinations within USA.