St.Petersburg Cinema Press Federation Dear Friends! I’m heartily glad that while covering all the events at the Beginning Film Festival, St.Petersburg Cinema Press Federation is also very helpful in the festival management. Year in year out our best representatives work at the festival in different positions from the Chairman of the Selection Committee to moderators of the seminars and round tables. Besides every year our experts name a holder of the St.Petersburg Cinema Press Federation Award. As early as in 2005 when the Press Federation has just been established our Prize “For the Most Promising Beginning” was given to Hamburg Media School for the first time. Later we decided to award the authors of the films directly and the prize was given to Max Maas (“The Making of: Een Chinese Boekie”, Holland, 2007), Anders Habenicht (“An Honorable Day”, Sweden, 2008) and Tiran Karapetyan (“Silence”, Armenia, 2009), Edyta Sewruk (“Bebok”, Poland, 2010). President of St.Petersburg Cinema Press Federation,
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Seance magazine Monochromatic cinema magazine for intellectuals, a fat volume (320 pages) and a slow-witted (issued several times a year). It was created during the Soviet years (the 80s), survived the era of primary capital acquisition and continues to exist in our '00 times. Its pages have become a platform for Russian cinematographers; leading critics consider it an honour to have their article published there. The magazine's audiences are professional cinematographers and true cinema lovers. “Seance” magazine institutes Sergey Dobrotvorsky's Prize “For the fruitful search of sources of the impossible”. |
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The oldest Russian film studio “Lenfilm” was founded in April, 1918. The first open film screening was held on the 4th of May 1896 in the Aquarium theatre (today this is the Stage ¹ 4). Since 1934 the studio has been named Lenfilm. “The Bronze Horseman”, the Lenfilm logo was created by an artist Marina Bologovskaya and cameraman Edgar Shtyrtskober. First it appears in “Workers' Quarters” by Vladimir Vengerov (1975). Many film classics were produced at Lenfilm throughout its history (about 1500 fiction, documentary and TV films) and some of these were granted international awards at various film festivals: “Chapaev” (The State Stalin Prize, 1941), “Lady with the Dog” (Cannes Film Festival Prize, 1960), “Hamlet” and “King Lear” received over thirty international awards, “Wild Dog Dingo” (Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1963), “My Friend Ivan Lapshin” (Bronze Leopard, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 1985), “The Year of a Dog” (Silver Bear, Berlinale, 1994), “Moloch” (Cannes Film Festival Prize, 2000). Among the most well-known films shot at Lenfilm are - “Baltic Deputy” and “Peter the First”, “The Rumyantsev Case” and “Lady with the Dog”, “Hamlet” and “King Lear”, “Wedding in Malinovka” and “The Amphibian Man”, “Chief Chukotky” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, “Love by Request” and “Druzya i gody”, “Monologue” and “Khustalyov, my car!”. Many notable filmmakers were active at the studio, such as directors Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Kheifets, Vladimir Petrov, Ilya Averbakh, Gleb Panfilov, Dinara Asanova, cameramen Andrey Moskvin, Vyacheslav Gordanov, Dmitry Meskhiev, Yury Veksler, artists Evgeny Eney and Nikolay Suvorov. A lot of popular songs written by Dmitry Shostakovich, Isaak Dunaevsky, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, Veniamin Basner an Andrey Petrov were performed in the films produced at Lenfilm. Lenfilm is a place that is tightly connected with the world celebrities, such as Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Franco Nero, Michael Caine, Michele Placido, Greta Scacchi, Sophie Marceau. |
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Saint Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television was founded as the High Institute for Photography and Photo Technology. Since then it has turned into a higher learning school providing a wide range of specialties in all film industry areas. At present the University provides instruction in the prestigious and popular specialties of Film and Television Direction, Film and Television Operator, Sound Engineering Technique, Animation and Computer Graphics Direction, Television Journalism, Management, Social and Cultural Economics, Public Relations, etc. for more than 4500 students. Prestigious level of education in the University is supported by highly qualified professors of the technical departments and by new but strong magistral staff at the Departments of Screen Arts and Economics. More than 70 % of teaching staff have got the academic ranks of Doctor of Science, professors, assistant professors, Candidates of Science. A lot of famous professors have been teaching at the University: directors S.Aranovich, V.Sarukhanov, L.Menaker, Yu.Klimov, N.Voitenko, V.Gurkalenko, I.Maslennikov, V.Bortko, K.Lopushansky, S.Ovcharov, K.Bronzit, V.Vinogradov, M.Litvyakov, I.Kalinina, V.Semenyuk, V.Aksenov, À.Krivonos, etc., cameramen E.Rozovsky, D.Dolinin, S.Astakhov, A.Chirov, S.Lando, V.Vasiliev, S.Yurizditsky, N.Volkov, V.Uzhiev, sound supervisors A.Gasan-Zade, B.Andreev, V.Dinov, G.Frank, Yu Kubitsky, N.Dvorko, V.Persov, etc., script writers Yu.Klepikov, V.Vardunas, I.Ageev, N.Vinokurov, F.Gukasyan, etc., film experts A.Kazin, V.Potemkin, L.Arkus, À.Artukh, Î.Kovalov, N.Pravosudova, T.Egorova, L.Berezovchuk, etc., and À.Golutva, S.Selyanov, I.Kalenov, À.Staviskaya, S. Melkumov, etc. have been teaching at the Production Department. There are several Campuses in Moscow, Sovetsk (Kaliningrad region), Yakutsk, Khanty-Mansyisk. University graduates are highly demanded specialists due to unique disciplines and high quality education of world class. |
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