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series The Boss

Ukrainian company 1+1 Production started shooting 24-epi- Producer: Elena Yeremeyeva. 1+1 Production sode romance entitled The Boss, a local adaptation of the Director: Bata Nedic. Spanish-language telenovela La Patrona distributed by Tel- Script: Irina Chernova. emundo Internacional. Cast: Yekaterina Varchenko, Stanislav Boklan, Elena Stefanska, Synopsis: The Boss tells the story of Natasha Suvorova, the Mark Drobot. woman working at ‘Almaznaya’ Coal Mine, the only source of in- Number of episodes: 24. come for those living in a provincial town nearby. Natasha is a Format: La Patrona. single mother, but is not afraid of throwing in the battle with cor- Genre: Romance. rupt system of local administration.

series Lt. Katchura’s District

Belarus national studio Belarusfilm started shooting 4-episode Director: Igor Chetverikov. Belarusfilm detective drama Lt. Katchura’s District, the fourth part in cy- Cast: Pavel Kharlanchuk, Valentina cle The Black Web. The project is financially supported by Gartsueva, Konstantin Mikhalenko, the Ministry of Culture of Belarus. Aleksandr Zhdanovich, Sergei Vlasov, Sergey Chekeres, Andrey Synopsis: Senior lieutenant Katchura runs against a body of an Senkin, Andrei Karako, Aleksandr unknown man near the railway. In his bag criminal law experts Ovchinnikov. find the remains of synthesized drug, used to make spice. In a Number of episodes: 4. few days two teenagers die of drug overdose. Katchura is sure – Genre: Detective. these two cases are linked.

series Because of Love

Russian film company Bonanza finished shooting 12-epi- Producer: Dzhanik Faiziyev. Bonanza sode family drama Because of Love commissioned by Russian Director: Aleksandr Franskevich- Channel One. Filming took place in Minsk (Belarus) and its Leie. region. The project is currently in post-production period. Script: Alexey Slapovskiy. Cast: Aleksei Guskov, Yekaterina Synopsis: Successful mogul Igor Palagin, father and husband, Guseva, Yegor Beroyev, Igor had set up a dictatorship in his family long ago. But little did he Ugolnikov, Yan Tsapnik, Andrei realize what would happen should his wife Iryna meet business- Rudensky. man and auto racer Andrei Gavryushov. Igor doesn’t want any Number of episodes: 12. family quarrel… Genre: Family drama.

Dzhanik Faiziyev

series The Wall

Russian filmmaker Dmitri Meskhiyev is preparing new 4-epi- Director: Dmitri Meskhiyev. Dmitri Meskhiyev’s sode period drama The Wall commissioned by Russia-1 chan- Script: Mariya Oshmyanskaya. Project nel. Shooting takes place in Pskov and Izborsk. Number of episodes: 4. Genre: Drama. Synopsis: This is the story of Smolensk, the city, which used to be the gates to Moscow. In the Time of Troubles Polish army be- sieged Smolensk – defense lasted 20 months, but the Russian garrison won.

Dmitri Meskhiyev

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series The Heavy Order

Russian film company Eshelon film in co-production with Le- Producers: Rodion Pavluchik, Eshelon film, Leandra andra prodco started working on new 4-episode detective ro- Svetlana Snitko. mance The Heavy Order. The project commissioned by the Director: Igor Draka. Telemaster studio is currently in pre-production period. Script: Vera Smirnova, Inna Vasileva. Synopsis: Nastya lives with her grandmother and runs small con- Cast: Vera Shpak, Ivan struction company. She gets an order to build the Sokoliki social Oganesyan, Larisa Malevannaya. village. And right on the first day the body is found on the con- Number of episodes: 4. struction site – murdered one is Kira, wife of the famous busi- Genre: Detective romance. nessman Zotov. Nastya and Kira were classmates, and killers decide she may know something… Rodion Pavluchik

series Forget and Recall

Ukrainian media group FILM.UA started shooting new 12-epi- Producers: Victor Mirsky, Katerina FILM.UA sode thriller romance Forget and Recall. Filming takes place Shvets. in Kiev and will commence until October. Premiere is set for the Director: Maksim Mekheda. spring 2016. Script: Darya Fominykh- Dezombre. Featuring Magamet Synopsis: A wealthy fianc with impeccable manners, advanc- Bachaev. es and bridal spectacular. Businessman and politician Leonid Cast: Aleksandr Kobzar, Anna Mazov is the ultimate dream, you may think, especially for Vasilleva, Anton Sokolov, 17-years old charity girl Natasha. But maybe all this is merely Aleksandr Getmanskiy, Tatyana a screen to sponge the memory of husband’s another beloved Lyapina, Oksana Zhdanova, one? Natasha finds the diary of the wife who died under un- Mark Drobot, Andrey Mostrenko, clear circumstances, and realizes that the only way to save Irina Mak, Mihail Dosenko, Yakov her life is to disappear forever. She fakes a suicide, but 7 years Kucherevky, Igor Rubashkin and later the past finds her… others. Number of episodes: 12. Genre: Thriller romance.

series Vladimirskaya, 15

Ukrainian media group FILM.UA is working on multi-episode Producers: Victor Mirsky, Vladimir FILM.UA detective Vladimirskaya, 15 based on real events. Shooting Issat, Sergey Demidov, Sergey takes place in Kiev. Project is commissioned by Ukrainian ICTV Morozov. channel. Its premiere is planned for this fall. Directors: Valeriy Rozhko, Oleg Turansky. Synopsis: The head of the Kiev District office of internal affairs Script: VASILI POPOV, Dmitri decide to create the task unit to investigate the most tangled Lisovets. and mystery cases. Four investigators – four completely different Cast: Sergey Strelnikov, Yakov persons. They may choose their own methods to find out who the Kucherevky, Viktoriya Litvinenko, criminal is, but the purpose is the same – to find and neutralize. Yaroslav Kucherenko, Viktor Saraykin. Number of episodes: 32+. Victor Mirsky Genre: Detective.

series Nikonov & Co

Ukrainian FILM.UA Group in co-production with Mamas Pro- Producers: Victor Mirsky, FILM.UA Group, duction started shooting 16-episode detective series Nikonov & Aleksandr Bogutskiy, Alla Mamas Production Co. Filming takes place in Kiev and its region. Premiere is set for Lypovetskaya, Marina Kvasova. this fall – TV series will air on ICTV channel. Directors: Zaza Buadze, Taras Tkachenko. Synopsis: In a shootout a 38-year-old employee of the opera- Script: Grigoriy Kovrakh. tional investigative department of MIA Sergei Nikonov (Alexander Cast: Aleksandr Kobzar, Mikhail Kobzar) gets a serious injury of the spine. Sergey’s legs are para- Kukuyuk, Marina Konyashkina, Robert Feldman, Oleg Alla Lypovetskaya Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine 3 www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected] production production production №24, July 2015

lyzed legs, he can move only in a wheelchair. To escape from his Prymogenov, Antonina Makarchuk. personal tragedies and cope with depression, Sergei organizes Number of episodes: 16. in his apartment an unofficial department to investigate criminal Genre: Detective. offenses.

series The Jewelers Clan

Ukrainian production company Front Cinema is working Producer: Sasha Tkachenko. Front Cinema on new 95-episode romance The Jewelers Clan commis- Director: Dmitri Goldman. sioned by Ukraine TV channel. Shooting is underway and will Script: Tatyana Gnedash. take place in Lviv, Kiev and its suburbs. The series is due to Cast: Natalya Denisenko, Andrey premiere in August 2015. Fedinchik, Konstantin Danilyuk, Vyacheslav Dovzhenko, Valeria Synopsis: This is the Romeo-and-Juliet-like story about two Khodos. dynasties of jewelry masters living in Lviv. They lead a cat and Number of episodes: 95. dog life without realizing that their young ones – Zoya and Genre: Romance. Timur – love each other.

Dmitri Goldman

series Kazakh Eli

Kazakh film company Kazakhfilm is working on 10-episode Directors: Rustem Abdrashev. Kazakhfilm period drama Kazakh Eli based on the first part of the trilogy Script: Smagul Elubai, Timur The Nomads by Iliyas Esenberlin. Shooting which takes place in Zhaksylykov. Turkistan is underway. The series premiere is scheduled for the Number of episodes: 10. th 16 of December 2015. Genre: Drama.

Synopsis: the story is taking place about 550 years ago when first Kazakh nomad tribes appeared, ruled by sultans Ganibek and Kirey.

series In Search for Love

Russian film company Mauris Film is working on 4-episode ro- Producers: Roman Atanesyan, Mauris Film mantic comedy In Search for Love. Produced for TV Tsentr the Ilona Lakoba, Armen Davityan. project is currently in post-production period. Filming took place Director: Anario Mamedov. in Moscow. Script: Yuliya Shalimova. Cast: Anastasiya Panina, Roman Synopsis: Being in despair to find happiness police officer Anna Polyanskiy, Anna Peskova, Andrei makes composite portrait of the man of her dream. And by ac- Butin, Yuliya Zhigalina. cident it ends up in wanted criminals database – everyone is sure Number of episodes: 4. this is the thief the police is looking for. Programmer Sasha who Genre: Comedy. is harmless as the day is long is unsuspicious that he and the man on composite portrait looks identical…

series The Memory of Sun

Ukrainian film company Odessa Film Studio is preparing the pi- Producer: Andrey Zverev. Odessa Film Studio lot of 8-episode romance The Memory of Sun. Shooting takes Director: Viktor Kustov. place in Odessa. Script: Eygeniy Timoshenko. Cast: Pavel Shmarev, Andrey Zai, Synopsis: The story tells about the Swiss and the Frenchman who Aleksandr Stankevych, Артемий come to Ukraine to make wine from local grapes. Егоров, Konstantin Kyrilenko. Number of episodes: 8. Genre: Romance.

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series Quad Erat Demonstrandum

Profit Russian prodco Profit is filming 8-episode detective QED Producer: Igor Tolstunov. (Quad Erat Demonstrandum). Shooting takes place in Saint Director: Ivan Kitaev. Petersburg. Script: Dmitriy Novoselov. Cast: Denis Shvedov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Lidiya Milyuzina, Synopsis: While taking on the most tangled cases, crime investi- Natalya Vysochanskaya. gator Shyryaev finds out that even the most complicated puzzle Number of episodes: 8. may be solved using…mathematics. Main hero meets an eccen- Genre: Detective. tric professor Shtoppel’, who helps to seek and catch the author of a crime.

series 16 Days

Progress-Studio Russian Progress-Studio in co-production with Forward-Film Director: Aleksey Gusev. started shooting multi-episode criminal drama 16 Days. The Script: Maksim Esaulov, Aleksandr series is commissioned by NTV channel. Filming takes place in Samoylov, Illya Litvyak. Saint Petersburg. Cast: Dmitri Pevtsov, Vladimir Postnikov, Dmitriy Sutyrin, Igor Botvin, Sergei Malakhov, Emiliya Synopsis: 16 days left until the International tribunal will start Spivak. court hearing on war crimes in Kosovo. Independent photo- Genre: Criminal drama. journalist Philipp Morozov will witness and tender evidence – photos from the on-the-spot reportage. But first of all he has to survive these 16 days – too many people want him and his evidence disappear forever.

series A Wonderful Life

Russian Project Russian film company Russian Project is working on 12-epi- Director: Sergey Korotaev. sode drama A Wonderful Life commissioned by Russian Chan- Script: Alla Krinitsyna. nel One. The project is in pre-production period, auditions Number of episodes: 12. are underway. Shooting starts this July and will take place in Genre: Drama. Moscow and its vicinities and in Monaco. Premiere is set for winter 2015.

Synopsis: A man whose personal worth is about $15 bln. sud- denly finds out that no amount of money can protect his relatives and dearest persons from severe illnesses.

series Sveta The Revenant

TNT Russian TNT channel started working on new 12-episode sitcom Director: Maksim Pezhemskiy. Sveta The Revenant. Shooting is underway. Cast: Mariya Mashkova, Aleksandr Palchikov, Egor Atamantsev. Number of episodes: 12. Synopsis: Young wheelchair-bound girl wants to earn enough Genre: Sitcom. money to have an surgery done so that she can walk. The only way, as she thinks, is to pretend to be an internet-witch from the afterworld.

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series Adultery Vadim Perelman’s Russian director Vadim Perelman has wrapped up shooting Producers: Valeri Fedorovich, on 16-episode ironic comedy Adultery. Filming took place in Aleksandr Dulerain, Aleksei Project Moscow. Currently the project is in post-production period. Ageyev. Series premiere is set for this fall. Director: Vadim Perelman. Script: Darya Gratsevich. Cast: Yevgeni Stychkin, Yelena Synopsis: Asya is an ordinary woman, who has been married Lyadova, Glafira Tarkhanova, Kirill for many years. Still, she doesn’t see any harm in having lov- Kyaro. ers. Exactly – not only one lover, but three instead! All this time Number of episodes: 16. she managed to keep it in a secret. Until she once walks into the Genre: Comedy. entrance hall of her apartment house and sees a tablet with the message ‘Asya and Slava had their first sex here’ on it. Asya de- cides to tell her husband the truth… Vadim Perelman

series How I Became Russian

Russian group of companies Yellow, Black & White in co-pro- Producers: Vitaliy Shlyappo, Yellow, Black & White, duction with MyWay Production is preparing new comedy Eduard Iloyan, Sangadzhi Tarbaev. MyWay Production series How I Became Russian. The project is commissioned Director: Konstantin Statsky. by CTC channel. Shooting is underway. Cast: Mateusz Damięcki, Svetlana Ivanova, Sergey Chirkov, Aleksandra Ursulyak, Anastasiya Synopsis: American Post newspaperman Alex Wilson arrives in Stezhko, Denis Pyanov. Russia where he will not only learn about the Russian reality, but Number of episodes: 20. find out what the mystifying Russian soul is. Alex decides to keep Genre: Comedy. a blog and share his musings on the issue ‘How to be a Rus- sian?’.

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TV Movies The State Border. The False Target Belarus national studio Belarusfilm has wrapped up shooting Director: Sergey Talybov. Belarusfilm of 2-episode war drama The False Target, the twelfth part of Cast: Dmitri Ratomsky, Andrei series of films The State Border. The movie is in post-produc- Karako, Aleksandr Podobed, Vitaliy tion period now. Its premiere is set for 2016. Novikov, Sergey Chekeres, Igor Sigov. Genre: War drama. Synopsis: Major Konstantin Kudin is a border guard. He works in the same place where his father died. Once Kudin finds a stone with a spying device, and thus disrupts plans of several criminal groups – local businessman Tyurin, linked to drug traf- ficking, his protection racket and terrorists. Kudin and his fam- ily are in danger now…

TV Movies The Most Important Russian film company Mediaprofsoyuz has wrapped up Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev, Mediaprofsoyuz shooting on TV romance The Most Important. Filming took Vladimir Ignatyev. place in Belarus. The project commissioned by Russia-1 Director: Aleksandr Yefremov. channel is currently in post-production period. Script: Elena Balandina. Cast: Olesya Grybok, Boris Khvoshnyanskiy, Alyona Ivchenko, Synopsis: Dasha is 20 years old. She lives in province and Ivan Streltsov, Pavel Yaskevich, works with children in Center for Arts Education. She has no Tamara Mironova. one, but grandmother. However, once she is told that her fa- Genre: Romance. ther is still alive, lives in Moscow and doesn’t even know about daughter.

TV Movies Not Beautiful Love Russian film company Russkoye is working on new TV ro- Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev, Irina Russkoye mance Not Beautiful Love commissioned by Russia-1 chan- Smirnova. nel. Shooting is underway. Director: Kira Anghelina. Script: Evgeny Ungard. Cast: Darya Yakamasova, Sergey Synopsis: It seems that Lyuba stroke a bad patch just when she Zharkov, Mariya Buknis, Evgeniy was born. She is ugly and alone. Everyone is laughing at her, Shtyrbul. and mother wants her to marry rich old man. In despair Lyuba Genre: Romance. robs a bank and escapes with a big fish in a small pond offering him $1 mln. for the only night…

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TV Shows Little Giants

Ukrainian 1+1 channel is working on new children talent show Producer: Vladimir Zavadyuk. 1+1 Little Giants, a local adaptation of Pequeños gigantes format Format: Pequeños gigantes. by Mexican Televisa company. Auditions are underway. Show is produced by Final Cut Media.

This is the show for talented children aged 4 to 12. Eight ‘coach- es’ – celebrities, actors and actresses, hosts and dancers – lead them to victory and the grand prize. But to become the best they have to impress 3 judges.

TV Shows The Voice 6

Ukrainian 1+1 channel has announced a casting call for the sixth Format: The Voice. 1+1 season of the vocal talent show The Voice, the Ukrainian version of the Dutch format of the same name, distributed by Talpa. The project is produced in-house – by 1+1 Production.

The contest consists of three phases: a blind audition, a battle phase, and live performance shows. Four judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose teams of contestants through a blind audition process. Then, each team of singers is mentored and developed by its respective coach. In the second stage, called the battle phase, coaches have two of their team members battle against each other directly by singing the same song together, with the coach choosing which team member is better. In the final phase, the remaining contestants compete against each other in live broadcasts.

TV Shows This is My Room

Russia Disney TV channel is working on new TV show This Host: Olga Shelest. Disney is My Room. Auditions are underway. The show premiere is set for this fall.

This program will give children an opportunity to design their room as they wish to make it ideal. Olga Shelest and the group of designers will help. But parents are not allowed – this will be a surprise for them!

TV Shows Wedding Size

Russian Domashniy channel is preparing new reality show Host: Anita Tsoi. Domashniy Wedding Size devoted to long-lasting family relationships and their refreshment. The project is produced by Zamaleev Produc- tion.

Heroes of the show – married couples who have been living to- gether at least for ten years. TV viewers will have an opportu- nity to look at partners when they just married to compare their sizes. It appears that men and women got used to eat more after marriage, and now they want to lose weight. Several specialists are here to help – fitness instructor, nutrition expert and family psychologist.

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TV Shows How to Become a Supermodel Ukrainian broadcaster Novy is working on new TV show How to Novy TV Channel Become a Supermodel. The project is produced by Final Cut Media.

The muses of famous designers will finally unveil the price they paid to become supermodels. They will tell about their dreams and what they are sorry about. The show features Ukrainian su- permodels including Alla Kostromichyova, Snejana Onopka, Natalya Gotsyi, Ella Kandyba, Anna Zakusylo, Zhuzhu Ivanyuk, Solomija Zgoda, Sonya Gorelova, Evelina Mambetova, Alyona Osmanova.

TV Shows The New Star 2 Russian Zvezda channel is preparing the second season of The Format: The X Factor. Zvezda New Star TV show. Auditions are underway. Project is support- ed by the Ministry of Defense.

Several judges – Russian celebrities, artists and producers – have to choose the most talented singers from 24 selected at the first stage. In a few rounds each contestant has to impress judges and the TV viewers as the last will send SMS to vote for the best – for the one who will be the new star.

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feature films Moscow, I Bear You Russian film company AXYONOV Film is working on new full- Producers: Sergey Aksyonov, AXYONOV Film length comedy Moscow, I Bear You. The project is currently Andrey Aksyonov. in post-production period. Shooting took place in Moscow. The Director, script: Sergey Axyonov. film will premiere at the end of this year. Cast: Ilya Ermolov, Denis Shvedov, Olga Aksyonova, Dmitri Suponin. Synopsis: Aleksandr wants to break free, to have some rest from Genre: Comedy. daily routine. But the clients keep calling and his girlfriend only dreams of going shopping. Everything changes in one day, when Aleksandr’s classmate arrives and offers to meet and drink some beer, his other friend asks for help, and main hero falls in love with his client…It appears that it is very easy to lose yourself in a big city, but maybe it is no harder to find instead?

feature films The Best Day Russian film company Bazelevs is shooting full-length karaoke- Producers: Timur Bekmambetov, Bazelevs comedy The Best Day. Filming started on the 25th of May in Zhora Kryzhovnikov, Aleksey Moscow vicinities. Then it will take place in Tver’, Voronezh and Kazakov, Sergey Kornikhin. th Lipetsk oblast. Premiere is set for the 24 of December 2015. Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov. Bazelevs Distribution has the worldwide rights on the film. Script: Zhora Kryzhovnikov, Aleksey Kazakov. Synopsis: Successful small-town traffic police officer Petya Cast: Dmitriy Nagiev, Yuliya Vasyutin is going to marry Olga. But being on duty he stops Aleksandrova, Valentina Mazunina, drunken TV star Alina, who is looking for a house for her moth- Sergey Lavygin, Inna Churikova, er. Chance encounter runs into a binge, and Petya proposes to Elena Yakovleva. Alina, but got the gate. The only way out now is to become a star Genre: Comedy. himself! feature films Normandie-Nimen Russian Channel One in co-production with French production Producers: Konstantin Channel One, B-tween company B-tween is preparing feature war drama Normandie- Ernst, Arnaud Frilley, Nikolay Nimen. Project is in pre-production period with shooting due Borodachev. to take place in Russia and France. The movie is supported by Genre: War drama. the Ministry of Culture and the Federal Fund for Social and Eco- nomic Support to national cinematography.

Synopsis: Six months after the Germans invaded the USSR in June 1941, talks aimed at closer co-operation between Free France and the Soviet Union resulted in setting up a special squadron with an initial core of 12 fighter pilots and 47 ground staff for service on the Russo-German front. After several re- markable operations in 1944 the group was expanded to be- come a rgiment, with latter being stylized as Normandie-Nie- men in recognition of its participation in the battles to liberate the river of the same name.

feature films A Man From The Future Russian film company CTV is working on new feature fiction Producer: Sergei Selyanov. CTV movie A Man From The Future. The Project is currently in Director: Roman Artemiev. pre-production period. It should be mentioned that it is the full- Cast: Aleksandr Chislov. length version of the short film The Savior shot in 2013. Genre: Fiction.

Synopsis: 50 minutes till the end of the world. What would you do? Supermarket cashier Gulya decides to spend the rest of her time… on her working place. But suddenly a nude stranger ap- pears, and tells her that she has to become a mother of a man who will save the humanity.

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feature films The Super Family Russian film company Filmy Navsegda started shooting new Producers: Eduard Iloyan, Vitaliy Filmy Navsegda feature comedy The Super Family commissioned by Yellow, Shlyappo, Denis Zhalinskiy. Black and White group of companies. The project budget to- Director: Dmitry Dyachenko. tals 150 mln. Rubles (approx. $2.9 mln.). Its premiere is set for Script: Aleksey Kazakov. 2016. Cast: Roman Madyanov, Anna Mikhalkova, Boris Ulitin, Elizaveta Synopsis: The meteorite falls on the house of one ordinary fam- Kononova, Semen Treskunov. ily, and its members get invisibility, levitation…and other seem- Genre: Comedy. ingly pointless powers – they can’t use them being on their own – only when the whole family comes together. However, at last Oleg may bring to life his dream to become rich. The only thing he has to do is to persuade his ‘nearest and dearest’ to rob the bank.

feature films I-Sider Russian film company Koktebel’ is preparing new fiction drama Producer: Roman Borisevich. Koktebel’ I-Sider. The project is in pre-production period now. Production Director: Aleksei Popogrebsky. budget is set at 400 mln. Rubles (approx. $7.3 mln). The project Genre: Fiction. is thought to be the first part of the franchise.

Synopsis: The story is set in the dark and pessimistic future – people are prohibited to show any emotions, and those who abide get a cruel punishment. Still, there are teenagers who have emotions, but they are detained in the special orphanages. Maya meets one of them and starts to realize that she has emo- tions too…

feature films The Pulp-Writers Russian film studio Kryl’ya has wrapped up shooting on new Producer: Marianna Balashova. Kryl’ya feature comedy The Pulp-Writers. The project is currently in Director, script: Vladimir Zaykin. post-production period. Filming took place in Moscow and its Cast: Gosha Kutsenko, Daniil vicinities. The film premiere is set for the end of this year. Spivakovsky, Yuri Stoyanov, Dariya Moroz, Katerina Shpitsa. Synopsis: 1990s. The boom of publishing activities in the coun- Genre: Comedy. try. A lot of pulp-writers think they are the real professional men of letters. And they do anything to see their potboilers published.

Marianna Balashova feature films Just Like Adults Russian film company Milky Cinema Production in co-produc- Producers: Olga Zhirova, Juliya Milky Cinema Production, tion with German Zafilm and Maltese Pellikola Limited started Vorobyova. Zafilm, Pellikola Limited shooting film almanac entitled Just Like Adults. The project re- Directors: Anton Bilzho, Svetozar ceived grant from the Russian P.O.V. fund. Production budget is Golovlev, Anna Saruhanova. €600 000. Script: Anton Bilzho, Dmitry Vachedin, Aleksandr Bagration, Synopsis: Five stories shot by different filmmakers in five differ- Angelika Müller, Dmitry ent countries – Russia, Germany, France, Georgia and Malta. Martirosyan. Each brings up an actual issue of the modern youth – first love, Genre: Almanac. relationship with parents and equals in age, social inequality, loneliness and hunger for glory.

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feature films Ivan Russian film group Mosfilm is working on autobiographical Director: Mikhail Shevchuck. Mosfilm feature drama Ivan about Ivan Yarygin, former Soviet – Russian Cast: Vladislav Dyomin. wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling. Shooting Genre: Biopic. takes place in Moscow and Krasnoyarsk.

Synopsis: This film is about a Russian strongman, who had no nationality, religious, social or racial prejudice. About a man, who promoted equality and respect to others no matter of the skin color.

feature films Tankmen Russian film company Pimanov and Partners started working Director: Alexey Pimanov. Pimanov and Partners on new war drama Tankmen. The project is currently in prepro- Genre: War drama. duction period. It is financially supported by Russian Channel One, Ministry of Defense and media holding Zvezda.

Synopsis: Based on real events film tells the story of the Sovi- et Army lieutenant Semyon Konovalov. In 1943 his tank, being broken and dropped behind the others, engaged in battle with 55 Nazis tanks. Konovalov and his crew managed to put 16 tanks and 8 troops trucks out of action. Three tankmen including Ko- novalov survived. Alexey Pimanov feature films The Icebreaker Russian prodco PROFIT is working on new feature drama Producers: Igor Tolstunov, Yuri PROFIT The Icebreaker based on real events. Shooting in Murmansk Khrapov. st wrapped up on the 1 of June, and film crew moved to Saint- Director: Nikolay Khomeriki. Petersburg. The project budgeted totals $10 mln. The movie re- Cast: Sergei Puskepalis, Pavel ceived support from the Federal Fund for Social and Economic Derevyanko, Anton Shagin. Support to national cinematography. The film will premiere at the Genre: Drama. end of this year.

Synopsis: Diesel-electric ship Mikhail Somov had to deliver sup- plies to Antarctic station Russkaya, but had been iced up for 133 days. Several helicopters managed to rescue most of the crew, the rest had to fight for lives on their own. What would you do in this icy trap?

feature films Kharms Russian film company Proline Film has wrapped up shooting Producers: Andrei Sigle, Dmitriy Proline Film on feature-length autobiographical drama with a tentative title Svetozarov. Kharms, devoted to a popular Soviet-era poet Daniil Kharms. Director, script: Ivan Bolotnikov. The project is currently in post-production period. Filming took Cast: Wojciech Urbanski, Aistė place in Saint-Petersburg at one of the sound stages of Lenfilm Diržiūtė, Darius Gumauskas. studio. Movie premiere is set for 2016. Genre: Biopic.

Synopsis: Daniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. In 1928, Daniil Kharms founded the avant-garde collective Oberiu, or Union of Real Art, which focused on antirational verses, nonlinear theatrical per- formances and public displays of decadent and illogical behav- ior. Kharms was arrested in 1931 and forced to live in Kursk for most of a year – he was accused of being a member of “a group of anti-Soviet children’s writers”, and some of his works were used as an evidence.

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feature films The Teacher Russian filmmaker Sergey Mokritskiy is working on new Producer: Aleksandr Kovtunets. Sergey feature war drama The Teacher. Shooting is taking place in Director: Sergey Mokritskiy. Mokritskiy’s Project Crimea with setting built in Feodosiya. Cast: Boris Komorzin, Yulia Pere- sild, Andrei Smolyakov, Sergey Synopsis: World War II. Nazis invaded many of USSR cities and Pokhodaev. towns, and one man who thought he would just wait out this war, Genre: War drama. ends up in the thick of things that will make him a hero. But at the expense of his own life.

Sergey Mokritskiy

feature films The Stranger Russian film studio Slon is shooting full-length period drama The Producer: Sabina Eremeeva. Slon Stranger. Outdoor filming takes place in Vilnius and Klaipeda, Director, script: Pavel Chukhraj. while stage shooting is planned at Mosfilm studio. Cast: Yulia Peresild, Sergei Gar- mash, Rinal Mukhametov. Synopsis: It is said that love and hate are just one step apart. And Genre: Drama. the same is with happiness and tragedy. A young girl from Lithu- ania loves Jewish adolescent. Being from completely different worlds, they met in childhood, went through many hardships, and still something keeps them together. But what it is actually?

Sabina Eremeeva

feature films The Deep-Sea Master Ukrainian film company Status in co-production with German Director: Nadezhda Rybakova. Status, FRAMEPOOL production centre FRAMEPOOL started working on autobio- Genre: Biopic. graphical feature drama The Deep-Sea Master. The project is currently in pre-production period. It is financed by the German party. Shooting will take place in Odessa.

Synopsis: Main hero is Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko, who was a Soviet naval officer and, during World War II, the captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, with recent research showing that over 9 000 died when the ship sank. Sometimes Marinesko is called the Submariner №1 in the world.

feature films The Filmmaker Ukrainian film company Status in co-production with German Director: Nadezhda Rybakova. Status, FRAMEPOOL production centre FRAMEPOOL started working on new full- Genre: Drama. length criminal drama The Filmmaker. The project is in pre- production period. It is financed by the German party. Shooting will take place in Odessa.

Synopsis: Odessa. 1990s. Several storylines will interlace – a cowboy and a snake; young woman, who works as procurator and wants more power; a freaky killer, who loves to play chess, but shows no mercy to his victims; a gang leader and his contact. Nadezhda Rybakova

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feature films The Election Day 2/Den Vyborov 2 Russian film company Strela is filming the sequel of feature Producers: Sergei Petreikov, Strela comedy The Election Day/Den Vyborov 2. Shooting started Leonid Baraz, Rostislav Khait. this spring and will last until the end of this summer. Filming takes Director: Aleksandr Barshak. place in Astrakhan and Moscow. The movie will be released in Cast: Mikhail Yefremov, Aleksei 2016. The first part – The Election Day/Den Vyborov – premiered Kortnev, Rostislav Khait, Leonid in 2007 and grossed $6.2 mln. in box-office. Baraz, Kamil Larin. Genre: Comedy. Synopsis: Moscow radio station ‘Sort of Radio’ team is heading to region again – to canvass the votes. But, just before the elec- tions candidate disappears without a trace. At the same time, the governor Igor Tsaplin is going to open the new bridge across Volga in Astrakhan. And he disappears too – a gang of priests in disguise kidnap him. Maybe these two events are chained?

feature films Your Tutor Russian Valery Todorovsky Production Company is preparing Producer: Valery Todorovsky. Valery Todorovsky new feature-length psychological drama Your Tutor. The proj- Director, script: Anton Production Company ect is currently in pre-production period. Kolomeets. Genre: Drama. Synopsis: This is the story about Savva, graduate who falls in love with a mature woman, his world literature teacher.

Valery Todorovsky feature films Ampire V

Russian director Victor Ginzburg is working on new feature fic- Producers: Yelena Yatsura, Yury Victor Ginzburg Project tion movie Ampire V based on the novel of the same name by Krestinskiy, Jim Steel. Viktor Pelevin. The project is currently in pre-production period. Director: Victor Ginzburg. Shooting will start this fall. Genre: Fiction.

Synopsis: 19-years old Roman Shtorkin turns into a vampire and gets a new name ‘Rama The Second’. From now on, he is a member of the corporation The Fifth Empire. These vampires do not drink blood – they control ordinary people by reading their thoughts.

Victor Ginzburg

feature films The Shards of the Dream

Russian film company Winter Films in co-production with film Producers: Yelena Yatsura, Yury Winter Films studio Nasha Molodezh’ and Yarcinema company is preparing Krestinskiy, Jim Steel. new feature psychological drama The Shards of the Dream. Director: Victor Ginzburg. Shooting started on the 23th of May and takes place in Yaroslavl. Genre: Fiction. The film will be released in 2016.

Synopsis: After a horrible car crash a young man falls into a coma. Being unconscious, he constantly sees the strange vi- sions about separation from his girlfriend. This personal drama helps him to better understand his own life.

Yelena Yatsura

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24 DOC, RUSSIA-1 Russian TV channels 24 Doc and Russia-1, operated by All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company have bought rights to documentary film Citizenfour directed by Laura Poitras.

Citizenfour. In January 2013, Laura Poitras received an encrypted e- Director: Laura Poitras. mail from a stranger who called himself Citizen Four. In it, he offered Duration: 114 min. her inside information about illegal wiretapping practices of the US Na- Genre: Documentary. tional Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies. Poitras had already been working for several years on a film about monitoring programs in the US that were the result of the September 11 attacks. In June 2013, accompanied by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian intelligence reporter Ewen MacAskill, she went to Hong Kong with her camera for the first meeting with the stranger, who identified himself as Edward Snowden.

ALPHA VIOLET

Paris-based sales agent Alpha Violet has pre-sold rights to Luxem- Producer: Anna Kachko. bourg by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy to Greece and other countries for- Director: Myroslav merly known as Republic of Yugoslavia. It should be mentioned that Slaboshpytskiy. Alpha Violet is responsible for international distribution of the previous Genre: Drama. director’s title – drama The Tribe, which received about 40 prizes on different international film festivals.

Luxembourg. It is a film noir taking place in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, an area with the size of Luxembourg. In the film, radiation, pas- sion and jealousy immerse Sergey, a policeman working on shift, in the heart of darkness.

ANIMACCORD STUDIO Spanish kids TV channel Panda acquired rights to season one and two of Russian animated series Masha and the Bear produced by Ani- maccord Studio.

Masha and the Bear. Series tell us about a unique relationship be- Producers: Andrey Dobrunov, tween two main characters. Masha is an exceedingly active little girl Dmitriy Loveyko, Oleg who can’t sit still on one place and has to make everything a business Kuzovkov. of her own. The Bear is a big and hearty guy who loves comfort and Directors: Oleg Kuzovkov, quietness. After their first met the Bear is always in anticipation for an- Oleg Uzhinov, Denis other fun and wild adventure that Masha will surely pull him in. Chervyatsov. Cast: Alina Kukushkina, Boris Kutnevich, Eduard Nazarov, Mark Kutnevich, Irina Kukushkina. Duration: 7 min. Genre: Animation.

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A-ONE FILMS Russian distribution company A-One Films has acquired rights ton five feature films that will be released this fall. These are the follow- ing titles: French drama La tête haute, Spanish drama Ma ma, Italian drama Youth, French-Italian drama Mia madre and French romance Mon roi.

La tête haute. Malony’s occasionally loving, but mostly erratic and Producers: François Kraus, angry mother lost him to the child protection services when he was six. Denis Pineau-Valencienne. At 13, he was back in the judge’s office for joyriding without a license. Director: Emmanuelle Bercot. Now, four years later, Malony has spent a couple of stints at a juvenile Cast: Catherine Deneuve, center and is facing jail time. Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier, Rod Paradot, Diane Rouxel, Ludovic Berthillot, Aurore Broutin, Enzo Trouillet. Duration: 120 min. Genre: Drama.

Ma ma. An intimate woman’s drama, laced by moments of comedy, Producers: Penélope Cruz, the film turns on Magda, a woman who reacts valiantly to tragedy, dig- Julio Medem, Álvaro Longoria. ging deep into her interior. She and those in her intimate circle will live Director: Julio Medem. unsuspected scenes of humor and of delicate happiness. Cast: Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Jon Kortajarena, Àlex Brendemühl, Asier Etxeandia, Ciro Miró, Norberto Trujillo B., Jon Begoña Urrutia, Samuel Viyuela, Mónica Sagrera. Genre: Drama.

Youth. Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant Producers: Paul Sarony, hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now Carlotta Calori, Francesca retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity Cima, Nicola Giuliano, Viola and tenderness on their children’s confused lives, Micks enthusiastic Prestieri. young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to fin- Director: Paolo Sorrentino. ish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Cast: Michael Caine, Rachel Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane wants at all costs to hear him conduct again. Fonda, Harvey Keitel, Ed Stoppard, Tom Lipinski. Duration: 118 min. Genre: Drama.

Mia madre. Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, Producers: Nanni Moretti, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. Domenico Procacci, Olivier Père. Director: Nanni Moretti. Cast: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti, Beatrice Mancini, Stefano Abbati, Enrico Ianniello, Anna Bellato, Toni Laudadio. Duration: 106 min. Genre: Drama.

Mon roi. Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski- Producers: Xavier Amblard, ing accident. Dependent of medical staff and painkillers, she takes the Alain Attal. time to remember the tumultuous love story she lived with Georgio. Director: Maïwenn. Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Louis Garrel, Isild Le Besco,

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CP DIGITAL François-Marie Banier, Ludovic Berthillot, Félix Paris-based Wild Bunch has sold Gaspar Noé’s drama Love to Rus- Bossuet, Camille Cottin, Paul sian distributor CP Digital for the CIS territory. Hamy. Duration: 130 min. Genre: Romance.

Love. A sexual romance about a boy Murphy and his two lovers – Elec- Producers: Brahim Chioua, tra and Omi. It is a love story, which celebrates sex in a joyous way. Sophie Mas, Lourenço Sant’Anna, Gaspar Noé. Director: Gaspar Noé. Cast: Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin, Aomi Muyock. Duration: 130 min. Genre: Drama.

DOGWOOF London-based distributor Dogwoof has sold documentary Dior and I on the territory of Russia. It has already been released in USA, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Hong Kong.

Dior and I. Dior and I brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Director: Frédéric Tcheng. Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look Duration: 90 min. at the creation of Raf Simons’ first haute couture collection as its new Genre: Documentary. artistic director-a true labor of love created by a dedicated group of collaborators.

FILM.UA DISTRIBUTION FILM.UA Distribution has licensed Battle for Sevastopol to Beijing- based Lotus Film International Culture Media Co. Ltd. Cinema re- lease is set for September 2015.

Battle for Sevastopol. It is a biographical film about Lyudmila Pavli- Producers: Yegor Olesov, chenko, a young Soviet woman who joined the Red Army to fight the Natalya Mokritskaya. Nazi invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in Director: Sergey Mokritskiy. World War II. She fought in the Battle of Odessa and, eventually, the Cast: Yulia Peresild, Yevgeni defense of Sevastopol. After 309 confirmed kills, she was sent to the Tsyganov, Nikita Tarasov, United States to campaign for American support, and met Eleanor Joan Blackham, Vitali Roosevelt. Linetsky. Duration: 120 min. Genre: War drama.

ICTV All3Media International, part of All3Media group, has licensed for- mat rights on German TV series Niedrig & Kuhnt: Detectives Inves- tigate to Ukrainian ICTV channel. According to the latest information there will be 56 episodes in the first season of the Ukrainian version of the format.

Niedrig & Kuhnt: Detectives Investigate. Two real detectives inves- Genre: Detective. tigate fictional cases – murder, fraud, robbery etc. They interrogate the key suspects and analyze the evidence in the course of the episode, so that the viewers find out who the criminal is just at the same time as the officers do.

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KIT Ukrainian distribution company KiT has added to its catalogue three new titles – US docuseries Full Force Nature and Italian animation series Angel`s Friends and Christopher Columbus.

Full Force Nature. In recent years, we’ve seen just how unpredictable uration 24х30 min. and dangerous weather can be. Flash floods. Tsunamis. Class 5 hurri- D : enre Documentary. canes. Freak ice storms. Catastrophic mudslides. Nature has not only G : changed the face of the Earth, but also the lives of those who’ve found themselves in its fierce path.

Angel`s Friends. Four Angels (Raf, Uri, Sweet and Miki) and four Dev- Producers: Orlando Corradi, ils (Sulfus, Cabiria, Kabale and Gas) are sent to Earth, in an unused Simona Ferri, Gian Claudio area of the Golden School, where they learn everything they need to Galatoli, Eddy Jamous. become Guardian Angels and Guardian Devils. The Angels and Dev- Director: Orlando Corradi. ils are required to form pairs as part of their education, each of which Duration: 14 min. will have to deal with a human being, known as Earthly Ones, and help Genre: Animation. them choose between the right and wrong way in life without being dis- covered. Angels and Devils cannot operate at the same time, so they decide, clashing in the Challenge Room, who will work first.

Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus’s life was full of dra- Genre: Animation. ma, but he was a man of strong will. Born in Genoa, he realized his dream of becoming a sailor, dared to search for a new route, and finally reached his goal, discovering a new land in the process. Now, he is taking up the fourth, his last journey.

MK-DISTRIBUTION Russian TV channel Mama acquired Ukrainian cooking docuseries Little Foodies from MK-Distribution. It will be aired on the territory of Russia, CIS and Baltic countries.

Also Belarus national state TV and radio company Belteleradiocom- pany has acquired rights on Ukrainian animation series Lessons of Aunt Owl from MK-Distribution. It is aimed at junior children, aged from 2 to 7.

Little Foodies – this is no-dialog program about cooking tasty and Duration: 100х3 min. what is the most important – healthy – food for babies from 6 months Genre: Cooking series. to 2 years old.

Lessons of Aunt Owl. The thematic spectrum of the lessons is ex- Genre: Animation. tensive – here you have alphabets of a few languages, and narrations about times of year and rules of good conduct, and interesting geogra- phy, and so on, and so forth. And all this – not in the dry form of school subjects. In fact, it is implied in the very name that all the lessons are animated, therefore you will see and hear here cartoon characters only. Aunt Owl, hooligan cats and other silent living beings, children, winds, trees – there are enough of bright characters.

PARAKEET FILM Ukrainian distributor ParakeeT Film acquired rights to American fea- ture drama Danny Collins.

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Danny Collins. Aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins cannot give up Producers: Declan Baldwin, his hard-living ways. But when his manager Frank Grubman uncov- Denise Di Novi, Monica Levinson, ers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, Shivani Rawat. he decides to change course, and embarks on a heartfelt journey Director: Dan Fogelman. to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act. Cast: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer, Melissa Benoist, Nick Offerman, Josh Peck, Aarti Mann. Duration: 106 min. Genre: Drama.

PROVZGLYAD International distributor Memento Films International has li- censed Joachim Trier’s drama Louder Than Bombs to Russian PROvzglyad company for the territory of Russia and CIS coun- tries.

Louder Than Bombs. Three years after her unexpected death, the Producers: Naima Abed, Michael preparation of an exhibition celebrating the famous war photogra- B. Clark, Sigve Endresen, Emilie pher Laura Freed brings her husband and their two sons together Georges, Frederick W. Green. for the first time in years. When an unsettling secret resurfaces, the Director: Joachim Trier. three men are forced to look at each other and themselves in a new Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan, light, redefining their innermost needs and desires. Rachel Brosnahan, Gabriel Byrne, David Strathairn, Ruby Jerins, Isabelle Huppert, Megan Ketch, Devin Druid. Duration: 105 min. Genre: Drama.

RUSSIAN REPORT Russian agency Russian Report has acquired rights on new fea- ture comedy De Surprise, an international co-production of Neth- erlands, Belgium, Germany and Ireland. The movie will be released in August.

De Surprise. An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to Producers: Hans de Weers, Mike have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young van Diem, Els Vandevorst. woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble Director: Mike van Diem. ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the Cast: Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, contract. Georgina Verbaan, Jan Decleir, Henry Goodman, Naveed Choudhry, Oliver Gatz, Ronny Jhutti. Duration: 102 min. Genre: Comedy.

SILVERBOX International sales agent TrustNordisk has sealed a deal with Russian Silverbox on Danish thriller A Conspiracy of Faith – the third part of the franchise based on the book series by Jussi Adler- Olsen. The previous two movies are The Keeper Of Lost Causes and The Absent One.

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A Conspiracy of Faith. Detective Carl Mørck holds in his hands Director: Hans Petter Moland. a bottle that contains old and decayed message, written in blood. Cast: Fares Fares, Nikolaj Lie It is a cry for help from two young brothers, tied and bound in a Kaas, Johanne Louise Schmidt, boathouse by the sea. Could it be real? Who are these boys, and Søren Pilmark, Lotte Andersen, why weren’t they reported missing? Could they possibly still be Jakob Oftebro, Pål Sverre Hagen. alive? Carl’s investigation will force him to cross paths with a wom- Genre: Thriller. an stuck in a desperate marriage – her husband refuses to tell her where he goes, what he does, how long he will be away. For days she waits, and when he returns she must endure his wants, his moods, his threats. But she is done with it. She will find out the truth, no matter the cost to her husband – or to herself.

SOVTELEEXPORT Russian Sovteleexport, part of All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company , has licensed rights to Russian feature film We Are From the Future to Iranian company RO.IN Entertainment S.R.L.

We Are From the Future. Four young men in their early twenties Director: Andrei Malyukov. make money in a dubious way: they perform excavations on the Producers: Sergei Shumakov, sites of World War II battles, digging for orders, medals and other Ludmila Kukoba, Angelina relics that collectors may buy. One day, Borman, Spirt, Cherep and Pavlichenko. Chukha go on an excavation mission in the countryside near St. Cast: Danila Kozlovskiy, Dmitriy Petersburg. Here, the story takes a mystical turn, when the young Volkostrelov, Vladimir Yaglych, men first excavate military identity cards with their own names and Andrey Terentyev, Yekaterina photographs, and are then transported some sixty years back to Klimova, Boris Galkin, Daniil the early stages of World War II. The young men barely avoid being Strakhov, Sergei Makhovikov, Zoya executed as they are believed to be deserters, and then are given Buryak, Gloriya Avgustinovich. weapons and military uniforms to fight the Nazis alongside other Duration: 115 min. soldiers. Genre: Action, adventure.

STUDIO U7 Russian company Studio U7 that distributes factual and docu- mentary content on the territory of Russia, CIS and Baltic states, has taken rights on British doc The Beaver Wisperers.

Studio U7 has also acquired two titles – British doc Underwater Okavango and Canadian docuseries Ultimate Pet Lovers – for the territory of Russia, CIS and Baltic states.

Underwater Okavango. There is a hidden world beneath land- Duration: 60 min. locked Botswana – the Underwater Okavango delta; an unex- Genre: Documentary. plored wilderness brimming with life and diversity. Few have ever laid eyes on this Eden for it is guarded by some of Africa’s most dangerous creatures. Now, a team of filmmakers braves these perilous waters to track the remarkable journey of an epic flood that affects almost every creature in the Northern Botswana eco- system. From the smallest creatures to Africa’s giants, all must run the gauntlet of this moving tide.

Ultimate Pet Lovers. This program is about those people that Duration: 13х30 min. can not imagine their lives without pets. They are completely dif- Genre: Documentary. ferent, but what unites them all is the passion for pets, who may be not only dogs and cats, but also crocodiles, snakes, kanga- roos, foxes etc.

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The Beaver Wisperers. Beavers are an astonishingly resilient Duration: 60 min. species. They have been on the planet for roughly 30 million years, Genre: Documentary. surviving through all manners of predation and climate change. Today’s beaver somehow managed to survive the great Ice Age while its larger cousin, Castoroides ohioensis, did not. But how can we learn to love something we once nearly exterminated, and which many people still regard as a pest? In our own age of global warming, beavers may offer us some kind of environmental second chance, courtesy of their ability to conserve water resources, miti- gate drought and boost bio-diversity.

VOLGA Russian distribution company Volga has acquired rights for theat- rical release of Eisenstein in Guanajuato, British drama film writ- ten and directed by Peter Greenaway. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. The movie will be released in Russia this fall.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato. In 1931, at the height of his artis- Producers: Bruno Felix, San Fu tic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico Maltha, Cristina Velasco. to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected Director: Peter Greenaway. by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Cast: Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned Maya Zapata, Lisa Owen, Stelio by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he vulnerably experiences the ties Savante, Jakob Öhrman, Rasmus between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, happy to create their Slätis. effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life. Peter Greenaways Duration: 105 min. film explores the mind of a creative genius facing the desires and Genre: Biopic. fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of the career of one of the greatest masters of Cinema.

WEST Russian distributor West has acquired theatrical rights on French thriller Dark Places.

Dark Places. A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family Producers: Matthias Ehrenberg, as a child is forced to confront the events of that day by a secret Tobin Armbrust. society obsessed with solving notorious crimes. Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Corey Stoll, Drea de Matteo, Tye Sheridan, Sean Bridgers, Dora Madison, Andrea Roth. Duration: 113 min. Genre: Thriller. WIZART ANIMATION Russian studio Wizart Animation has sealed deals with foreign broadcasters on several animated projects: it has sold The Snow Queen and The Snow Queen 2 to Pakistan, The Snow Queen 3 – to Middle East and Baltic countries and Turkey, and Oorfene Jus and his Wooden Soldiers to Baltic states and South Korea.

The Snow Queen. It is a 3D animation feature based on a famous Producers: Olga Sinelschikova, fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Wishing to create a New Sergey Rapoport, Aleksandr Ligay. world – where clearness of lines replaces emotions and the polar Directors: Maksim Sveshnikov, wind cools human souls – the Snow Queen is trying to find and de- Vladlen Barbe.

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stroy all artists and their successors. The film represents fascinat- Cast: Nyusha Shurochkina, Ivan ing travel of Gerda trying to find her brother Kai on the boundless Okhlobystin, Galina Tyunina, spaces of the fantastic country bewitched by the Snow Queen. Dmitriy Nagiev, Lyza Arzamasova, During this travel Gerda faces difficult obstacles and finds new Lyudmila Artemyeva, Yuri friends… Stoyanov, Anna Ardova, Ramilya Iskander, Olga Shorokhova. Duration: 76 min. Genre: Animation.

The Snow Queen 2. After their victory over the Snow Queen, the Producers: Timur Bekmambetov, trolls have developed a taste for freedom. Having played a major Yuriy Moskvin, Vladimir Nikolayev. role in the triumph, the troll Orm has become a hero to all. This is Director: Aleksey Tsitsilin. not enough for him, however. Comically exaggerating his exploits Cast: Nyusha Shurochkina, Ivan and achievements, he creates spins a web of lies, claiming that Okhlobystin, Anna Khilkevich, he personally defeated the Snow Queen, and that he is destined Aleksandr Uman, Egor Bortnik, to marry the princess and inherit great power and riches... But Aleksey Likhnitskiy, Roman where will Orm’s stories lead him? Yunusov, Aleksandr Gudkov, Mikhail Tikhonov, Diomid Vinogradov. Duration: 80 min. Genre: Animation.

The Snow Queen 3. After heroically defeating both the Snow Producers: Yuriy Moskvin, Queen and the Snow King, Gerda still cannot find peace. Her Vladimir Nikolayev. dream is to find her parents who were once taken away from them Director: Aleksey Tsitsilin. by the North Wind and finally reunite the family. Thus, Gerda and Genre: Animation. her friends embark on an exiting journey to find her parents and encounter new challenges along the way: they discover an an- cient magical artifact of the trolls, the Stone of Fire and Ice. From that moment on, things don’t go according to the initial plan…Will Gerda be able to tame the mighty forces of the magical elements and get her family back?

Oorfene Jus and his Wooden Soldiers. It is the screen adapta- Producers: Sergei Selyanov, Anton tion of Aleksandr Volkov’s fairy-tale of the same name. Evil car- Zlatopolski, Aleksandr Boyarskiy. penter Oorfene Jus decides to make an army of wooden soldiers Director: Vladimir Toropchin. and conquer the Magic Land. Ellie and her friends have to stop Genre: Animation. him…

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UKRAINIAN THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET OVERVIEW

(JANUARY 1, 2015 – JUNE 21, 2015) Theatrical releases of 149 films took place in Ukraine starting from January 1, 2015. Information on box-office of 93 films was disclosed by local distributors. In total they gathered $26.04 million. About 11.05 million tickets were sold for these 93 titles. TOP-20 releases collected $19.59 million. Cinema goers bought near 7.54 million tickets to watch the films you see in the table below. Worth mentioning that animation Three Bogatyrs. The Cavalry is the only Russian project in the list of releases with high theatrical revenues. Russian- language comedy 8 New Dates and war drama Battle for Sevastopol are Ukrainian-Russian co-productions.

Total Box-office Tickets Sold № Movie Distributor Premier Date Premier Box-office, $ (01.01 - 21.06.2015), $ (01.01 - 21.06.2015)

1 Furious 7 B&H 02.04.2015 942 701 1 965 420 848 596

2 Avengers: Age of Ultron B&H 23.04.2015 727 458 1 806 354 635 909

3 8 New Dates / 8 Novykh Svidaniy (Rus) UFD 01.01.2015 821 724 1 634 576 525 147

4 The Seventh Son B&H 01.01.2015 695 401 1 531 702 424 422

5 Fifty Shades of Grey B&H 12.02.2015 860 705 1 491 778 751 513

6 Exodus: Gods and Kings UFD 01.01.2015 519 211 1 268 531 317 265

7 Jurassic World B&H 11.06.2015 590 505 1 208 138 408 772

8 Paddington VLG 22.01.2015 437 673 960 993 368 942 Three Bogatyrs. The Cavalry / Tri 9 GK 01.01.2015 398 731 930 463 377 374 Bogatyria. Hod Koniom (Rus) 10 Mad Max: Fury Road KNM 14.05.2015 315 325 794 228 272 542 Night At The Museum: Secret Of The 11 UFD 08.01.2015 340 201 713 978 242 738 Tomb 12 Spy UFD 04.06.2015 421 707 700 816 282 019

13 Kingsman: The Secret Service UFD 12.02.2015 358 727 677 452 324 125

14 Cinderella B&H 12.03.2015 472 653 669 855 311 487

15 Battle for Sevastopol / Nezlamna (Ukr) UFD 02.04.2015 199 058 601 749 276 373

16 Chappie B&H 12.03.2015 260 748 590 454 258 465

17 Home UFD 19.03.2015 214 001 533 762 263 561

18 Tomorrowland B&H 21.05.2015 243 709 531 169 208 052 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out 19 B&H 05.02.2015 197 272 493 419 264 700 of Water 20 San Andreas KNM 28.05.2015 211 149 482 369 179 628

TOTAL ТОP-10: 13 592 183 4 930 482

TOTAL ТОP-20: 19 587 206 7 541 630

Sources: Ukrainian Film Distribution

Distributors: B&H – B&H Distribution GK – Galeon Kino KNM – Kinomania MMD – Multi Media Distribution UFD – Ukrainian Film Distribution VLG – Volga Ukraine

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The global television industry is changing its traditional paradigm due to the rapid development of new platforms of audiovisual content distribution like OTT, VoD services, cloud technologies, etc. Ukraine has focus also entered this new era of transformations driven by the change in content consumption, but also due to new legislation which obliges the TV channels to change their programming policy: namely, the new amendments to the Law on Broadcasting which came into force on June 4. UKRAINE BECOMES A The Ukrainian authorities have banned the broadcasting all Russian-made content that focuses on Rus- HIGH-PROSPECTIVE sian armed forces, police and all kinds of governmental security services. The restrictions also concern all films, shows and series that were produced with the participation of ‘personae non gratae’ who have ne- TERRITORY FOR THE glected Ukrainian laws and threaten the national security of Ukraine. Moreover, all Russian-made content INTERNATIONAL CONTENT produced after the 31st of December 2013 is also banned.

Taking into account the considerable share of Russian productions on Ukrainian TV, it is easy to see that the local broadcasters will develop a hunger for new acquired content. This will not happen immediately, as the channels will try to outlive this period by airing both locally-produced series and TV shows while also repeating earlier acquired non-prohibited Russian content. But it is obvious that all Ukrainian broadcasters will not be able to maintain their positions and avoid losing audience in the nearest future without introduc- ing brand new TV series and films. The channels are starting to seek for new partnerships, ideas, formats and ready-made content, dropping the traditional cooperation model and looking beyond Russian-speak- ing productions.

To understand better Ukraine as a high-prospective territory for the international producers and distribu- tors, the Kiev-based Media Resources Management (MRM) conducted a research of the content that was aired by the Top 6 local broadcasters in 2014. Inter, 1+1, Ukraine, ICTV, STB and Novy collectively account for more than 51% of the TV viewing share in the country. Last year, Out of more than 52.300 hours of broadcasting time on the six channels more than a half was dedicated to TV series and shows and 15% to films and movies.

Content broadcast on ukraine’s 6 leading channels in 2014, by genre

*”Other” stands for live-airs, concerts, short films and interprogrammes Source: Media Resources Management

The programming policy of the major Ukrainian channels differs a lot. For instance, Inter, Novy and ICTV give about a third of their air time to TV series; almost half of Ukraine’s schedule is filled with this type of content, while STB and 1+1 rely more on entertainment and only a quarter of their air time in 2014 was filled with series.

Things get even more interesting when we look at the share of Russian series aired on the Top 6 Ukrainian nets in 2014. In total, more than 18.260 hours of TV series were shown during last year. Russian-produced TV series accounted for almost 12.680 hours or 69.4% of the total volume of series broadcast in Ukraine in 2014.

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Russian-Produced Tv Series On The Top 6 Ukrainian Channels In 2014, Total Hours

Source: Media Resources Management

The nets who relied the most on Russian series in 2014 include Novy (87% of series in the air are Rus- sian, while all scripted content comprise 33% of its total air time), Ukraine (81% series in the air - Russian, all series took 47%), ICTV (74% series - Russian, 33% of the total air was occupied by series) and Inter (65% Russian series, all series comprise 34% of its total air time). STB and 1+1 had the much humble: 37% (series in the total air took 16%) and 32% (23%), respectively. The leader in aired Ukrainian original series productions and co-productions was Inter with 32%, followed by STB with 27% and 1+1 with 18%, while ICTV and Novy had only 9% and 4% in this category.

The issue with Russian content gets even more serious when we take into account that almost 1.900 hours (or 15% of all Russian-made series aired on the Top 6 nets) were produced in 2014. Considering the restrictions mentioned above these 15 percent will also disappear from the TV grids. Adding almost all detective and crime series as well as war and action dramas that depict the life and work of Russian mili- tary and security services we come to the situation where almost 40% of the Russian-made series (aired in 2014) are now banned for broadcasting in Ukraine.

We should also not forget that totally there are more than 20 nation-wide TV channels in Ukraine, 11 of which are general interest nets. The analysis above shows the situation on the leading TV channels, but the other broadcasters were also active buyers of Russian TV content and now they will feel the hunger for content as well. MRM’s analytical department forecasts that even with the boosting of local series produc- tion the shortage of new TV series will vary at the level of five to seven thousand hours a year!

Moreover, recently the Ukrainian Parliament voted on the reduction of the allowed volume of TV advertising from 20% to 15% of the broadcast hour. This will also open up additional space to fill in the grids.

The stats above prove that Ukraine is now a new market where the traditional model of scheduling of Rus- sian content will be replaced by new programming strategies: some channels will start relying more on own productions, others on more international acquisitions. This will open up great new for the interna- tional producers and distributors willing to fill the huge gap left by the disappearance of Russian content in Ukraine.

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Operating in the market since 2005 Media Resources Management (MRM) is the first Ukrainian media consulting company that offers its competent expertise and services in the sphere of media and enter- Interview tainment. MRM conducts researches in all the main segments of the media market of Ukraine, Russia and other CIS territories, Eastern and Western Europe and other world regions. In an exclusive interview to CIS: Content Report MRM CEO Victoria Yarmoshchuk told about the structure of Ukrainian media market, Victoria challenges of its TV industry players, and the possible way outs amid the absence of governmental sup- Yarmoshchuk: port. Ukrainian law should be What is the structure of Ukrainian media market? Does the local system meet the world stan- dards? reformed to improve co- production climate and I would prefer not to talk about the world standards in such sphere as media, as the notion ‘media market’ investment attractiveness comprises a lot of separate industries, with all of them being structured in their own way. For instance, it would be a mistake to compare the structures of the TV and printed media markets, or radio and the Inter- for foreign partners net. Especially in the time when the convergence of different media leads to blurring of the classic notions of media channels. You must admit that nowadays neither TV, nor radio and – particularly – printed media are impossible without the Internet. Onrush of new technologies increases the variety of ways to deliver content – IPTV, video on demand platforms, mobile apps and services etc.

Back to the question on the structure of Ukrainian media market it’s necessary to say that there are several big players in each of its segments – TV groups, publishing houses if we are talking about printed media, radio- and internet-holdings correspondently.

There are four large commercial TV groups on the local market – Inter Media Group (Inter, NTN, Mega, K1, K2, Zoom, Pixel and Enter-film channels), 1+1 Media (1+1, 2+2, ТЕТ, PlusPlus, Bigudi, Ukraine Today and UNIAN TV), StarLight Media (STB, ICTV, Novy channel, М1,М2, QTV) and Media Group Ukraine (Ukraine, NLO TV, Football 1, Football 2, Indigo TV, and several regional TV channels). Their cumulative share of TV viewing is more than 80%, and they collect in total more than 90% of the TV-advertising money at the market.

It is worth noting that the abovementioned media holdings do not keep only to television – they are step- ping up their presence in the Internet, and expanding in-house production and distribution divisions. By the way, Media Group Ukraine is an owner of one of the biggest publishing houses in the country - Segod- Victoria Yarmoshchuk nya Multimedia Holding. That is why considering the groups’ structure I may say that Ukrainian TV holdings meet the world standards.

How is the TOP-list formed? What are the criteria to choose one or another media market player – financing volume, TV product quality etc.?

There are many much smaller players except those four large groups. For example, public First National channel, private 5 Kanal, Tonis and 112 Ukraine, and a wide range of niche, regional and local broadcast- ers.

The main criterion is the coverage of TV audience. Although, the coverage and the quality of the audience are the most important factors for any type of media in the world. The only way to steal the scene is to show something interesting and of high quality. And quality means appropriate financing and a qualified profes- sional team. So, the success depends on each and all the processes – line-up formation which helps to hit the target audience, original production and content acquisition from the third parties, development of TV content distribution, licensing and related businesses, good marketing and PR-strategy – that, actually, are the links in the one and the same chain, where the audience is right on the top.

What do you think of the quality of Ukrainian product?

The quality of programming aired on Ukrainian TV channels is rather high. They broadcast all the world hits, after the certain delay, of course, due to the theatrical and TV distribution windows, but this is the world practice. Ukrainians can watch popular US and European high-budget TV series, and good results were shown by South Korean and Turkish product. It is Russia, however, who has been the leading TV se- ries supplier for Ukrainian television for many years. But the local TV series production doesn’t stay in one place and as to its quality it is as good as abroad – Ukrainian series top the Russian viewing ratings very often.

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Speaking about the TV shows and programs, Ukrainian channels are doing very well – they learned to produce such type of content of a very high quality level. The local adaptations of international TV formats are usually considered as one of the best in the world. As a result Ukrainian companies are trying to enter the TV formats market as sellers, not only buyers. And they succeed, just like in the case of ‘Mystical Tales’ from FILM.UA: it has been licensed not only in the CIS territories, but also Bulgaria, Benelux, Austria, Nor- dic countries and others. In its turn ‘Crack Them Up!’ by Studio Kvartal 95 has been acquired for adapta- tion into France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, China, Australia, Vietnam, Lithuania, to say nothing of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. ‘Maidan’s’, ‘Daddy’s House’, ‘The Auditor’, ‘Downtown Karaoke‘ and ‘Jail Birds’ were also sold abroad as formats.

What do Ukrainian media come short of in compliance with the European, world or Russian ones? Has the local product any benefits?

Should you exclude all the nuances connected with the freedom of speech and business transparency, and focus on the market aspects only, you will see that Ukrainian media players have much less money than the European or Russian ones, because of the ad market size. Before the devaluation of national cur- rency in the last year, the TV advertising market volume reached in 2013 about 5 bln. hryvnas or $625 mln. In 2014, however, it totaled less than 4 bln. hryvnas or taking into account the average weighted exchange rate – below $450 mln. And this year it may fall under $200 mln.

Just for example, in the neighboring Poland the TV ad market volume exceeded $1 bln. in 2013 already, and demonstrates growth in the last two years. Talking about Russia you have to realize that ad expenses per capita are initially several times higher there than in Ukraine. And even with those negative trends out there within the last one and a half year, the situation is much better than in Ukraine. You should not forget about financing from the [Russian] government, owner of the most of popular federal TV channels.

The only benefit of Ukrainian product is its price. Ukrainians have learned to make the product of rather high quality almost for a song. And they will have to polish up these skills because the channels line-up should be filled up.

Can we say that Ukraine has its own media product already? What particular elements does it have?

Ukrainians make a lot of original media product. Our company is doing research on the programming broadcast by the most popular TV channels at the moment. And I can provide with some results already.

In 2014 the total time of Ukrainian TV series (co-productions excluded) aired by the TOP-6 channels reached 1 250 hours, and about 1 700 hours were the co-productions with Russian, Belarus and Kazakh colleagues. This is more than 16% of the time of series broadcast by the TOP-6.

As for the original TV shows and programs they totaled 10 300 hours or more than 93% of all programming of this type shown by the TOP-6 broadcasters. Large part is taken by the news programs (around 10% of the whole air time)? TV-movies, documentaries and animation. The share of TV-movies and documentary films produced by Ukrainian companies or in a co-production with them is also high – 580 hours or 42% of air time of this type of content in 2014.

How do you assess the rate and development level of Ukrainian media market? What it may or should be driven with?

The development level is high if you think of the business working processes. But there is no growth – the trend is negative due to the economic situation. No one knows for how long will the stagnation last, but it is obvious, that taking into account the volume of ad market by value it will take at least several years to recover and reach the level of 2012-2013.

The government policy focused on the deregulation and business operations easing may stimulate the growth. So does the attraction of foreign investments. But it is still unknown how the government wants to support the national audiovisual product – yes, it gives money as grants from Film Agency or the Ministry of Culture to produce feature, documentary and animated films. This support, however, is a drop in the bucket, help for some specific projects and producers without any systematic approach for the local pro-

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We do cooperate with Bazelevs in some researches. But this cooperation is rather sketchy. Actually we do May the Russian TV product ban improve the quality and volume of Ukrainian programs? As for the vol- notway delve that producedinto the stud filmsy. As are for presented the FilmLanguage to maximum I know audience that Bazelevs and get have chance some to rbecomeesults that profitable. are diffe rTheent ume – for sure it may. But as for the quality – I have great doubts about that. The reason is that before funderstandingrom the declar edof thisobjectives fact came but tostill… Russian filmmakers and developed into a strong tendency. now Ukrainian producers could have in view further sales of their product to Russia, and therefore these sales-budgets into the production budget of, for instance, TV series. But no one can rely on those sales Theretoday, is and information the production in the budget Web thatwill beyou minimized are going to coverto launch the costsyour onown the projects territory as of a U kraineproduce only.r. Is How- thatthis maytrue? improve the average quality of the product?

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As for the creative aspect of this issue, I see the next evolution stage in the move of more luminaries from film into TV world. I mean producers, directors, scriptwriters, actors. This trend is very interesting, such kind of paradigm shift. But I look to the future with optimism. Each crisis has an end, and the only important thing is to work and realize where you are going to.

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