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series College Students 4 Kazakh company B.A.S. Production started shooting the Producers: Akilbek Doszhanov. B.A.S. Production fourth season of 26-episode sitcom College Students. Filming Director: Ajgul Aksambieva. takes place in Almaty. The project is commissioned by Kazakh Cast: Saya Orazgalieva, Erkebu- NTK TV channel. lan Myrzabek, Rauan Murataliev, Ramis Kulahmetov, Asan Kirkaba- kov, Rauan Ramazanov. Synopsis: The main characters at last graduated from the univer- Number of episodes: 26. sity. It seems that it is everything they dreamed about. There’s Genre: Sitcom. no need to get up early and go to the classes. There’s no need to hide from the teachers whose lectures they are wagging, no more exams. But nothing of the kind. They encounter the new problems: work, marriage, children and flat-hunting. And once again they manage to solve their problems deftly and with fun.

series Chess Player Syndrome 2 Russian production company BergSound started shooting the Producer, script: Mikhail BergSound second season of detective series Chess Player Syndrome. Pogosov. Filming will take place in Moscow, Tallinn, Berlin, Yerevan and Director: David Zograbian. Istanbul. The project is commissioned by Russian Peretz TV Cast: Yuri Kormushin, Leonid channel. Evtifev, Sergey Aprelsky, Alexan- der Katin. Genre: Detective. Synopsis: A chain of mysterious murders occur in a provincial town. The victims were the high-profile criminal bosses. All these events, as well as in the first season, happened with participa- tion of Chess Player who tries to grasp all the drug market. The search for him is a real headache for local police. They know only one of his distinctive features – the crime particularity is based on kung fu technique.

series Those Eyes Vis-à-Vis Russian production company Central Partnership completes Producer: Natalia Klibanova. Central Partnership preparation for shooting 8-episode biography drama Those Director: Sergei Komarov. Eyes Vis-à-Vis that tells about Valeriy Obodzinskiy’s destiny. Script: Sergei Komarov, Julia Kli- Filming will start in August and will last till the middle of Decem- menko, Andrei Romanian, Natalia ber 2014. Koretskaya, Mikhail Kabanov. Cast: Alexei Barabash, Yevgeniya Brick, Kirill Safonov, Vyacheslav Synopsis: A simple guy from Odessa thanks to phenomenal tal- Chepurchenko, Yevgeny Stychkin, ent becomes a real superstar in the USSR. He does not look like Vladimir Simonov. all others – his songs are only about love and pop-clothes are Number of episodes: 8. lightsome and alternative. While the country is building its so- Genre: Biopic. cialistic bright future today Obodzinskiy does not sings anthems to the party and Komsomol. He sings about love to a woman in a country that has “no sex”. As far as he does not compromise – he neither enters the Communist Party, nor sings the patriotic morale-boosting songs – he is gradually being cleared from the stage as persona non grata.

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series Security Russian production company Direction Cinema completed Producers: Anatoly Maximov, Direction Cinema shooting 8-episode police romance Security. Filming took Konstantin Ernst. place in Dubnа (Russia). The project production is commis- Director: Nikita Vysotsky, Ilya sioned by Russian Channel One. Lebedev. Cast: Kirill Pletnev, Alexander Rat- nikov, Daniil Vorobyov, Alexander Synopsis: Everybody thinks that policemen are cut from differ- Mareeva, Danil Steklov. ent cloth: they are hard-hearted, do not feel fear and do not Number of episodes: 8. sleep at night. Partially it is really true, but they are humans too. Genre: Romance. They have their homes where they want to come back from work, they have hobbies devoting to them their free time and surely they have their beloved. Sometimes it happens that their be- loved serve side by side… Konstantin Ernst

series The Game. Revanche Russian television and production company DixiMedia started Producer: Yefim Lubinsky. DixiMedia to work over the second season of multi-episode action The Directors: Oleg Galin, Ivan Scho- Game. The project is currently in the preproduction stage. Se- golev. ries shooting will start on the 2nd of August. The project produc- Script: Ilya Kulikov, Vasily Vnukov, tion is commissioned by Russian NTV channel. Vladimir Batrameev. Cast: Yevgeny Stychkin, Pavel Barshak, Prokhor Dubravin, Niko- Synopsis: It is three years since colonel Pavel Belov and hard- lai Kozak, Daria Poverennova, core criminal Aleksei Smolin faced in a deadly skirmish. Smo- Spartak Sumchenko, Pavel Basov. lin is in life-long imprisonment; Belov changed his job and now Genre: Action. works as chief security officer of a large bank. His wife, he and their daughter sleep well at night without fear of a sudden attack. But once Belov saw Smolin in the street and realizes that noth- ing has finished yet. However, Belov cannot even imagine what really horrible people he will have to resist. Compared with them Smolin will be lesser of two evils.

The Sword 2 series Producer: Yefim Lubinsky. Russian television and production company DixiMedia started Director: Vladislav Nikolaev. DixiMedia to work over the second season of multi-episode action The Script: Ilya Kulikov, Vasily Vnukov, Sword. The project is currently in the preproduction stage. Se- Julia Bayeva. ries shooting will start on the 12th of August. Cast: Eduard Flerov, Roman Kurtsyn, Daria Poverennova, Al- Synopsis: Maxim Kalinin after heavy wounds gradually comes exander Fissenko, Nina Gogaeva, around and makes a new team. Some of them are well known Victoria Fisher, Vladislav Pavlov. people and some are new but also devoted characters. Again Genre: Action. they will stand against the criminality on Moscow streets. The Sword members are still on the edge: on the one hand is a crimi- nal world that offers huge money for their capture and on the Yefim Lubinsky other - law enforcement agencies that hunt the “bent cops”.

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series Djuna Russian production company Duet Production started shoot- Producers: Mark Levin, Yuri Sap- Duet Production ing 12-episode biography drama Djuna. Filming will take place ronov. in Moscow, Tbilisi and probably partially in Ukraine. The project Director: Vadim Ostrovsky. production is commissioned by Russian Channel One. Script: Alexander Borodyansky. Cast: Laura Keosayan, Kirill Synopsis: Main character healer Djuna is famous with her en- Kyaro, Ramilya Iskander, Anzor dearing sincerity and huge selfless dedication for everything Kamariddin. what she would do. It is difficult to find another such a man Number of episodes: 12. whose biography mixed so often the myths and reality. Accord- Genre: Biopic. ing to various legends her patients were Leonid Brezhnev, John Paul II the Patriarch of Rome, Robert de Niro, Andrei Tarkovskiy and Federico Fellini. Except healing she also forecasts future: she used to forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union and Cher- Yuri Sapronov nobyl nuclear disaster.

series Women’s Robbery FILM.UA group of companies in coproduction with creative Producers: Victor Mirsky. FILM.UA union The Empire of Good completed shooting new 4-episode Director: Ashot Keschyan. adventurous comedy Women’s Robbery. The movie premiere Cast: Irma Vitovskaya, Rimma is planned for this autumn. Zyubina, Olga Tumaykina, Nikolai Boklan, Boris Georgievsky, Mikhail Synopsis: Nina, Toma and Sveta are bosom friends. The for- Zhonin, Sergei Kalantaev, Oleg tune has not given them much. Nina grows a son on her own and Savkin. works as a cleaner in a bank. Toma is a teacher that always falls Number of episodes: 4. in love with the wrong men. Sveta is a middle-ranking physician. Genre: Comedy. Everything they have accumulated for the black day the friends keep in the bank where Nina works. And once Nina accidentally got to know that the bank leadership stole all the deposited mon- ey. And to cover up traces it is going to stage a bank robbery. Outraged with critical injustice the friends decide to penetrate into the bank and withdraw their investments.

Personal Record series FILM.UA group of companies finished shooting the second Directors: Vladimir Melnichenko, season of multi-episode detective romance Personal Record. Igor Zabara. FILM.UA Filming took place in Kyiv and its vicinities. The project will pre- Script: Alexey Timoshkin. miere on Russia 1 and Ukraine TV channels. Cast: Anna Garnova, Ilya Shaku- nov, Boris Nevzorov, Nikita Pan- filov, Anatoly Zinovenko, Ekaterina Synopsis: Tatiana Emelyanova is a smart and attractive woman. Kisten. She has just been appointed as a criminal court judge in a ma- Genre: Detective romance. jor regional center of Russia. Now she is responsible for the fate of the people, saving face, and besides - she is raising her son alone. Every day she faces a number of questions that may seem Igor Zabara unresolvable. Fidelity to principles, honesty, and incorruptibility, a sincere desire to reach bed-rock and to find a right solution in the most difficult and complicated cases...That’s what differs her from some of her colleagues as well as prosecutors and law- yers. However, apart from her work, she will also improve her personal life.

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series Steppe Wolves Russian production company Kinozavod in coproduction with Director: Yevgeny Sologalov. Kinozavod Forward-Film started production of detective series Steppe Script: Julia Matsuk. Wolves. Shooting takes place in St. Petersburg. Cast: Mikhail Gavrilov, Yuri Chursin, Victor Solovyev, Boris Synopsis: Investigator Andrei Dymov is transferred to serve in Mironov, Tatyana Lyutayeva, a southern town from the regional center. Very soon he makes Konstantin Glushkov, Olesya Fat- sure that a quiet life of the town is not a merit of the local law takhova. enforcement representatives. Everything in this town is submit- Genre: Detective. ted and subjected to the Volkovs family clan, leader of organized crime group Steppe Wolves. The main profit the gang receives from the protection racketing of the cargo carriers and trucks robbery.

Yevgeny Sologalov

series Satellites Russian production company Mars Media Entertainment Producers: Ruben Dishdishyan, Mars started shooting 8-episode military drama Satellites after the Aram Movsesian, Elena Denise- Media Entertainment novel by Vera Panova of the same title. The geography of the vich. shooting covers St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. Director: Ivan Shurhovetsky. Script: Natalya Nazarova. Synopsis: 1941. The war begins. Commissar Danilov recruits Cast: Sergey Ugriumov, Nelly the medical personnel to the hospital train. He recruits doctor Uvarov, Vitaly Kovalenko, Alexan- Belov, an intelligent physician, who left his family in Leningrad. der Sirin, Daria Melnikova, Oksana Yulia is a strict surgical nurse and old maid. Beautiful Faina tests Bazilevich, Margarita Volkova, her charm on Danilov and repairman Nedzvetskii. Those people Maria Antonova, Tatyana Rasska- will be side by side all four war years passing tests for courage, zova. decency, firmness and kindness. Number of episodes: 8. Genre: War drama.

series Mikhail Bulgakov Life and Temptations Russian production company Mars Media Entertainment Producers: Ruben Dishdishyan, Mars started working over 10-episode biography drama with tenta- Aram Movsesian, Elena Denise- Media Entertainment tive title Mikhail Bulgakov Life and Temptations. The project vich. is currently in the preproduction stage. Film shooting will start Script: Marina and Sergey Dy- in 2015. achenko. Number of episodes: 10. Synopsis: The series tells us about the most vivid moments of Genre: Drama. Bulgakov’s life: evolvement as a writer, complicated personal relationship, morphine consumption, difficult relations with the authorities… His life was full of mystical signs and coincidences and that all will also be reflected in the plot. The series embraces the period from writer’s youth to his death.

Ruben Dishdishyan

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series My Close Enemy Russian production company Mediaprofsoyuz shoots 4-epi- Producer: Alexander Kushaev Mediaprofsoyuz sode romance My Close Enemy. The series production is com- Vladimir Ignatiev. missioned by Russia 1 TV Channel. Director: Yekaterina Shagalova. Script: Irena Seslavinskaya, Ellina Synopsis: Lisa and Alexandra are siblings. Alexandra is a real Kurbatova. demon and younger Lisa is a true angle. Alexandra quarreled Cast: Daria Baranova, Valentina with her sister and parents and left for Moscow with only purpose Gartsueva, Ivan Nikolaev, Dmitry to marry a successful businessman. And soon she finds such a Bogdanov, Alexander Haiduk, candidate. It seems that everyone now will live long and happily. Dmitry Mukhin. To please her whims she shamelessly steals everything that be- Number of episodes: 4. longs to Lisa: husband, job and house. However, Alexandra hav- Genre: Romance. ing almost destroyed her sister’s life suddenly becomes a victim of her own treacherous intentions.

series Delta 2 Mostelefilm Russian production company Mostelefilm started working over Director: Sergei Vinogradov. the second season of 24-episode criminal thriller Delta. Shoot- Cast: Vadim Kolganov Anna Ka- ing takes place in Voronezh and Voronezh region. The project zyuchits, Sergei Selin, Nadezhda production is commissioned by Russian NTV Channel. Ivanova, Vyacheslav Garder, Alex- ander Latushko, Tatiana Chernja- Synopsis: Poachers in this place have never acted alone, they vskaja, Alevtina Chernjavskaja. are united in gangs and every village has its own gang. Every- Number of episodes: 24. body of them has its own weapons – both authorized and unau- Genre: Action. thorized. The caviar sale is a complex procedure. At the place of fishing its cost is substantially lower than in more remote places. If the poacher decided to export caviar on his own he is to pass an extremely dangerous adventure with death as a highly prob- able outcome.

series Inquisitive Varvara 2 PRO100 Film Russian production company PRO100 Film started shooting Producers: Anastasia Shipulina, the second season of 8-episode ironic detective Inquisitive Rodion Pavlyuchik. Varvara 2. Director: Roman Barabash. Script: Timofey Dekin. Synopsis: Pensioner-amateur of private investigation Varvara Cast: Elena Yakovleva, Vitaly Ivanovna is invited by her friend Vyazmin to the ski resort. But it Hayev, Petr Barancheev. does not matter where Varvara may hide the criminal cases will Number of episodes: 8. find her. While the character is investigating one crime by one Genre: Ironic detective. her companion is jealous of Varvara either to her favorite hobby or ski resort director who (as it turned out) knows Varvara for many years and is secretly in love with her.

series Fugitives Sergei Zhygunov PC Russian Sergei Zhygunov Production Center started shooting Producer: Sergey Zhirunov. 16-episode criminal comedy Fugitives. Filming takes place in Director: Andrei Shcherbinin. St. Petersburg and surroundings. The project is commissioned Script: Andrei Zhitkov Kirill Oly- by NTV channel. ushkin. Cast: Maxim Averin, Alexei Vo- Synopsis: It is an adventurous story about two brothers Vova and robyov, Ksenia Kutepova, Ivar Mishania who are on the run to escape the revenge of Tambov Kalnynsh. bandits. They decide to settle in a little seaside town and recol- Number of episodes: 16. Sergey Zhirunov Genre: Comedy.

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lect the old bandit habits. Everything changes when they meet two beautiful girls. The brothers are ready to improve and live a quiet life. However, it is difficult to do because of the bandits who search for them and local mayor.

series A Nark Russkoye Russian production company Russkoye with support of pro- Producers: Alexander Kushaev, duction company Condor started shooting multi-episode police Irina Smirnova. romance A Nark. Shooting takes place in Nizhniy Novgorod and Director: Roman Prosvirnin. will last till November. The series is commissioned by Russia 1 Script: Yevgeny Ungard. TV Channel. Cast: Olga Krasko, Oleg Alm- azov, Alexander Ratnikov, Sergey Synopsis: A woman-investigator arrives at Nizhniy Novgorod to Mukhin, Nikolai Lunin, Tatyana investigate several high-profile cases. To do that the character Kuznetsova, Mikhail Vladimirov. has to get a job in the local murder department and to solve Genre: Romance. some complex crimes.

series A Widower Russian production company Russkoye is working over new Producers: Alexander Kushaev, Russkoye 4-episode romance A Widower. Filming started on the 13th of Irina Smirnova. June and takes place in Moscow and Anapa. The series produc- Director: Boris Rabei. tion is commissioned by Russia 1 TV Channel. Script: Hannah Oganesyan- Slutsky. Synopsis: He missed his wife, needed support that nobody could Cast: Elena Radevich, Pavel Tru- provide him at that time – the very support that he needed. He biner, Ekaterina Ol’kina, Dmitry had to contribute more time for his son, try to do everything such Yachevsky, Dima Polunin. way that he would suffer less. And that also could be very difficult Genre: Romance. for him. He has not recovered yet, he does not know what to do and how to live on… Alexander Kushaev

series Misfits Russian production center Sreda started shooting local adapta- Producers: Alexander Tsekalo, Sreda tion of the British science fiction series Misfits. Filming of the Vyacheslav Murugov. pilot episode currently takes place in Zelenograd. The project Director: Maxim Polinsky. production is commissioned by Russian CTC channel. Cast: Aristarkh Venes. Genre: Science fiction. Synopsis: A group of young offenders were expecting their community service to be boring. However after a freak thunder- storm they discover that it is anything but dull. Bestowed with strange powers, the five very different teens realize they have a lot more to worry about than just picking up litter, especially as they discover that they are not the only ones who have been Alexander Tsekalo given strange powers. Secrets will be revealed, feelings brought to the surface and relationships formed and broken. But hey, it is only 12 weeks of community service; what’s the worst that could happen?

A Method series Russian production center Sreda started shooting 16-episode criminal romance A Method. Filming process started in Nizhniy Producers: Alexander Tsekalo, Sreda Novgorod and will last till the 10th of December 2014. The project Konstantin Ernst. production is commissioned by Russian Channel One. Director: Yuri Bykov.

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Synopsis: Maniac Rodion Meglin who managed to overcome Cast: Konstantin Khabensky. his pathology in youth thanks to communication with the psy- Number of episodes: 16. chologists becomes an investigator. His own “medical history” Genre: Crime romance. helps Meglin identify the maniacs similar to him. Yesenia after graduation from the university wishes to work together with mysterious and secretive investigator Rodion Meglin who sin- gle-handed exposes various maniacs. Being on training course with Meglin Yesenia begins to understand that the investigator feels the madmen and what is worse - probably he is a maniac too. Konstantin Khabensky

series Minus One Russian-Ukrainian production company Star Media is working Producers: Daria Lavrova, Vlad Star Media over new 4-episode romance Minus One. Filming takes place Riashyn. in Moscow. Director: Igor Roizman. Script: Olga Zhabina, Anna Anosova. Synopsis: Lena and Vasia are happy in marriage, they have two Cast: Ivan Stebunov, Tatiana Ka- children. But a household conflict leads to a sequence of events zyuchits, Artem Grigoriev, Olga that end in a colossal quarrel. In hot scandal they declare that Dibtseva, Maria Bolonkina, Afina they could live quite well without each other. So, they get such Kondrashova. an opportunity in literal sense: now Lena lives in a world without Number of episodes: 4. Vasia and Vasia – in a world without Lena. Both start some ro- Genre: Romance. mantic affairs. But quite soon they understand that nobody can be a good substitution.

Jus in Bello series Russian-Ukrainian production company Star Media is working Producers: Artem Dollezhal, Vlad Star Media over new 12-episode military and historic drama Jus in Bello. Riashyn. Shooting takes place in Kyiv and Chernivtsi (Ukraine). Director: Maxim Mekheda. Script: Yevgeny Gorislavets, Dimi- Synopsis: July 1941. The activated criminal world unites with tri Lysenko, Vasiliy Popov. the infiltrated German saboteurs. Former gymnasium student Cast: Yevgeny Volovenko, Yekat- Rokotov and ardent young communist Elagina will have to ex- erina Klimova, Maxim Drozd. perience a hard life. Fighting side by side Ivan and Svetlana feel Number of episodes: 12. that their professional relationship grows into something more. Genre: War drama. It is real love that is possible only in one step from the impend- ing death.

Artem Dollezhal

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TV Movies Operation Franklin Belarus national studio Belarusfilm started shooting 2-epi- Director: Igor Chetverikov. Belarusfilm sode war drama Operation Franklin from the cycle State Script: Ilya Tsofin. Border. The film is produced with the support Ministry of Cul- Cast: Andrei Frolov. ture of Belarus. The movie premiere is expected in 2015. Genre: War drama.

Synopsis: When the Soviet Union collapsed the young coun- try faced the need of protection of its own borders. To solve complex problems related to smuggling and illegal immigra- tion the special service was organized. It was called Osama. The veteran of Afgan war – Anton Pekarsky was appointed the head of Osama.

TV Movies Money Don`T Smell Belarus national studio Belarusfilm started shooting 2-epi- Director: Igor Chetverikov. Belarusfilm sode war drama Money Don`T Smell from the cycle State Script: Valentin Zaluzhny. Border. The film is produced with the support Ministry of Cul- Genre: War drama. ture of Belarus. The movie premiere is expected in 2015.

Synopsis: The film is about the border of Belarus which runs along the river Dnieper. The heroes of the drama are the locals who got used to pick berries and mushrooms on the other side of the river and smugglers, reaching numerous tweaks to de- liver illegal cargo. But when the stolen Ukrainian military weap- ons appear in the smuggler`s cargo the story turns different. Igor Chetverikov

TV Movies Let Me Kiss You. Bride`s Father Green Film Russian production company Green Film started working over Producers: Rodion Pavlyuchik, new television comedy Let Me Kiss You. Bride`s Father. It Pavel Babin, Mikhail Churbanov. will be the fourth part of the TV cycle Let Me Kiss You. The Script: Vadim Golovanov. project is commissioned by Russian Telefilm Production and Cast: Igor Lifanov, Maria Kulikova, is currently in the preproduction period. Shooting will take Boris Shcherbakov, Mikhail Try- place in St. Petersburg and the surrounding area. The film pre- asorukov. miere is expected this year. Genre: Comedy.

Synopsis: Grigoriy Vlasov is now an exemplary family guy and father. Natasha and Gregory live in his apartment in St. Pe- tersburg where they raise their wonderful three year old son Rodion. Grigory`s daughter from first marriage Masha arrives home from London where she studied for the past few years. But she comes with her boyfriend and Vlasov decides to test the strength of a young man.

TV Movies The Stars Shine for Everyone Russian production company Mediaprofsouz started shoot- Producers: Alexander Kushaev, Mediaprofsouz ing new TV romance The Stars Shine for Everyone. The film Vladimir Ignatiev. production is commissioned by Russia 1 TV channel. Director: Alexander Kananovich. Script: Anna Guseynikova. Synopsis: Masha is young, beautiful and rich. She is married to Cast: Yana Shivkova, Alexander Igor, the owner of a big business. Igor goes to jail for theft. All Tsurkan, Alexei Shutov, Marina family property is confiscated. Unable to forgive her husband`s Moskvina, Ilya Kapanets, Andrei infidelity Masha divorces with him. She has to return to her little Karako, Ruslan Chernetzky. hometown to her parents` old small flat with two rooms. There Genre: Romance. Masha meets her former classmate Petr. They could not stand each other at school.

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TV Movies Good Luck to everyone Russian production company Russian World Studios started Producer: Yuri Sapronov. Russian World Studios shooting new 2-episode TV comedy Good Luck to Everyone. Director: Valery Uskov. Filming takes place in Crapivna, Tulsk region. The project pro- Script: Anastasia Maximova, duction is commissioned by Russian Channel One. Vladlen Maximov. Cast: Sergey Shnyrev, Taisiya Synopsis: Thief Kostya nicknamed Odessa is released from Vilkova, Yulia Mavrina, Alexander prison. He wants to quit the gangster life. But his old cellmate Vdovin, Olga Rodina, Lyudmila Utug is already waiting for him. Odessa has to crack the strong- Gamuryak, Dmitry Yanyshevsky. box or to find three million to stay alive. Kostya remembers the Number of episodes: 2. story of his another cellmate, Koren, about his daughter, Rita, Genre: Comedy. who recently won three million in a national lottery.

TV Movies Frozen Sky Russian TV channel Zvezda finished shooting 2-episode war Cast: Sergei Bezrukov, Chulpan Zvezda drama Frozen Sky. The project is currently in post-production Hamatova, Oleg Pereverzev, An- period. Filming process took place in Murmansk (Russia). drei Funtov. Movie premiere is expected this autumn. Number of episodes: 2. Genre: War drama. Synopsis: The film will tell the audience about the air battles over the railway junction and the port of Murmansk during the World War II. The anti-aircraft gun defense squad consisted of young Comsomol girls. These girls rebuffed one attack after another.

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TV Shows Bring Back My Beauty Ukrainian broadcaster 1+1 started working on new makeover 1+1 show Bring Back My Beauty, which is produced by Sister’s Production company. The project will premiere this fall.

It is the show for women who lost belief in themselves, in their attractiveness and beauty, and it is their last chance to change not only their appearance, but also the whole life.

TV Shows Meet Your Prince in Odessa Ukrainian broadcaster 1+1 started working on new reality-show 1+1 Meet Your Prince in Odessa, produced by Sister’s Produc- tion company. The project premiere is set for this fall.

Three foreign real-life princes come to Ukraine to find some- one who will love them and not their money and title. Princes will work, use the public transport and live on an average salary of an ordinary Ukrainians in Odessa city (Ukraine), so no one knows who they really are until the right time comes.

TV Shows The Grand Question 2 Russian broadcaster СТС is preparing the second season of the CTC entertainment and intellectual TV show The Grand Question, Host: Vasily Utkin. an adaptation of Food Fighters format originally aired on NBC Format: Food Fighters. in US. The program is produced by production center Sreda. The show premiere is planned for this fall.

Different singers, actors and TV hosts come to answer the dif- ficult questions, and the trick is – these answers should be not so much correct as funny and comic. Still, the points are given both for correct and the most funny answer. Due to new types of rounds, the program will be longer in the second season.

TV Shows Never Too Late Ukrainian group of companies FILM.UA Group has announced FILM.UA auditions for shooting in new TV cycle of programs Never Too Late.

It is thought that the active social life of women after 40 years comes to an end and all the remaining time they should spend using the acquired benefits. But there are many examples of the opposite point of view, when people at the age of 40-50 were just beginning to realize their potential in life. Never Too Late tells the real stories of women who were not afraid to change their life at the turning point of age. Stories about people who were able to develop their talents and tried to fulfill themselves when others failed...

TV Shows Travel First Ukrainian First National channel started working on new TV Hosts: Vladimir Goryanskyi, Alla First National programme about tourism in Ukraine called Travel First. The Tulinskaya, Gennadiy Popenko. show will premiere on the 1st of September.

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Three hosts are traveling through Ukraine choosing different types of relaxation: Gennadiy looks for active leisure, Alla prefers entertain- ment and Vladimir wants to gratify his culture taste. And all of them are trying to prove – Ukraine is really a good choice to spend your vaca- tion.

TV Shows Test-Tube Ukrainian Inter channel and Nadiya clinic have launched the Producer: Sofiya Chemerys. Inter production of new medical TV-project Test-Tube. The pro- gramme is being produced by 07 Production company.

Test-Tube is for all those who lost heart and came to terms with not having children. Project’s team will try to help them using the state of the art in vitro fertilization procedures.

TV Shows Heroes&Lovers Ukrainian Novy Channel is working on the second season of the Host: Snezhana Egorova. Novy Channel local adaptation of A Prince for Corina format, acquired from Format: A Prince for Corina. Eyeworks International. It is made by the production depart- ment of STB channel, and will premiere this fall.

24 youngsters from the whole Ukraine will fight for love of Fab- rika Zirok (local version of Star Academy) ex-contestant Alina Astrovskaya. Snezhana Egorova TV Shows Girlfri3nds 2 Ukrainian Novy Channel is working on the second season of the Format: Girlfri3nds. Novy Channel reality-show Heart of Three, a local adaptation of Girlfri3nds format from Keshet Media Group. The Ukrainian version is made by the production department of STB channel. Currently casting is underway.

Three single young women are put in one house and followed as they seek for love. As a group they are given short dates with a hundred different gentlemen, from which they are allowed to invite only several back.

TV Shows Complete Clearance Russian NTV channel is preparing new reality-show Complete Producers: Vladimir Utin, Dmitry NTV Clearance. Produced by Mir Reality, it will premiere this Sep- Velikanov, Liana Serova. tember.

Complete Clearance is the show where three teams of profes- sional cornerers will buy different unnecessaries from celebri- ties and ordinary people and resell to loyal customers or flea market visitors.

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Two Men in the Steppe feature films Russian A. Litvinov Production Company started shooting Producers: Alexander Litvinov, A. Litvinov Production new feature-length military drama Two Men in the Steppe, Karen Shakhnazarov. Company screen adaptation of the same name novel by Emmanuel Kaza- Director: Sergei Popov. kevich. Filming will take place on Mosfilm studio in Tula region. Script: Yevgeny Nikishov. The project is produced with financial support of the Ministry of Cast: Yuri Borisov, Amir Ab- Culture of Russia. The film budget totals RUB71 million (near dykalykov. $2 million). Genre: War drama.

Synopsis: The movie tells us about young officer Ogarkov. In 1942 he, as well as other strong and healthy men, went to the front, but his service was not clean and glorious because Og- arkov did not manage to convey an order – the division was entrapped… According to the martial law it is death sentence. But for some reason the sentence was not carried out onsite. The prisoner had to be delivered to the Army H.Q. through the Alexander Litvinov steppe and an old soldier – convoy Dzhurabaev, native of Ka- zakhstan has to do that.

Lucky Horoscope feature films Russian filmmaker Arman Gevorgian started shooting new Producers: Valery Onya, Sergey Arman Gevorgian Project feature-length romantic comedy Lucky Horoscope. The ex- Torchilin, Sergey Kulikov, Vladir terior shooting takes place in St. Petersburg and then the stu- Jurkov. dio shooting will continue in Moscow. Filming process will be Director: Arman Gevorgyan. wrapped up in the end of August. The movie budget is about Script: Andrei Kureichik. $3 million. The film release is planned on the 8th of March 2015. Cast: Dmitry Endaltsev, Svetlana Hodchenkova, Anna Chipovskaya, Synopsis: Main character Max becomes a lucky owner of a Timur Batrutdinov, Yan Tsapnik, magic horoscope for one month. If he observes all its instruc- Vitaly Hayev, Gosha Kutsenko, tions the guy will be awarded with a beautiful girl and he will be Dmitry Nagiyev, Dmitry Khrusta- lucky for the rest of his life. But once the miracle-horoscope is lev. substituted… Genre: Comedy. Gosha Kutsenko The Final Night feature films Russian production center Art-Leader prepares for shooting Producers: Arseny Gonchukov, Art-Leader new feature-length love drama The Final Night. The project Vladimir Buzov. is in the preproduction stage. Currently the casting is under- Director, script: Arseny Gonchu- way. The movie shooting will take place this autumn in Moscow, kov. St. Petersburg and Nizhniy Novgorod. Genre: Drama.

Synopsis: Ivan is a nationally famous scientist and doctor-oncol- ogist. But suddenly Ivan got to know that he has a horrible dis- ease. It is in the last stage and even his medication cannot treat it. Next events occur rapidly and unpredictably. The successful doctor abandons his family, colleagues and leaves for another city without a word. He goes to the place where a woman lives whom he loved all his life. And he still loves her. He arrives and Arseny Gonchukov they meet…

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One-For-One feature films Russian production company Art Pictures Studio started pre- Producers: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Art Pictures Studio production period of works over new feature length romantic Dmitry Rudovskiy. comedy One-For-One. The movie production budget totals Cast: Yulia Kovalchuk, Alexei Chu- $1.4 million. makov, Alexei Ryazantsev, Mikhail Galustyan, Pavel Volya, Igor Synopsis: The story tells about workaholic Yulia. By leaps and Vernik, Timofey Mozgov. bounds she climbs a journalist career ladder and her cherished Genre: Comedy. dream is to become an editor-in-chief. It does not matter what it will take her to achieve her goal. And finally she is offered the cherished position… in a family magazine. However, the inves- tors have one condition – the editor-in-chief has to have a fam- Fyodor Bondarchuk ily. So, how may single Yulia find a family if she even does not have a boyfriend?! She has to find him! And he should become a husband at once. The deadline is one month. feature films Anyone but Them Russian production company Art Pictures Studio started Producer: Fyodor Bondarchuk. Art Pictures Studio shooting post-apocalyptic feature-length comedy Anyone but Director: Alexander Boyko. Them. The movie shooting started on the 14th of July in Tolyatti Cast: Polina Maksimova, Daria (Russia). The film release is planned in 2015. Hramtsova, Danil Steklov, Yuliya Hlynina, Denis Buzin, Yevgeniya Synopsis: This is a story about the eccentric young people. Turkova, Sergei Yakimovitch, Ser- They are from various subcultures and social strata but they gei Dubrov. are united by the same thing – their life is one permanent party. Genre: Comedy. Altogether they are a gang of infamous in their city talentless halfwits. However, once everything changes. After a regular wild party the characters wake up in the totally empty city and they cannot remember anything. The real apocalypses is around them, the city is partially destroyed and the there are no people.

feature films X-Trees 1914 Russian production company Bazelevs finished shooting new Producers: Timur Bekmambetov. Bazelevs feature lyrical comedy X-Trees 1914 – the fourth part of the Directors: Aleksandr Kott, Dmitry franchise about the New Year celebrations. Film premiere is Kiselev, Yuri Bykov, Aleksandr Kar- th planned for the 25 of December 2014. pilovsky. Cast: Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetla- Synopsis: In total the movie will have seven novels which take kov, Aleksandr Golovin, Aleksandr place in different Russian towns and cities, manors of the nobil- Domogarov, Anna Khilkevich, Ga- ity and cabins of the peasants, at the careless balls and severe lina Stakhanova. fronts of the First World War. The characters of the movie are Genre: Comedy. the ancestors of our dear “X-tree” characters: on the eve of the holiday they have to solve seemingly insoluble problem but hav- ing united their efforts they will be able to perform a real miracle.

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feature films Now a Kiss 2 Bazelevs Russian production company Bazelevs finished shooting the Producer: Timur Bekmambetov. sequel to the feature-length comedy Now a Kiss (aka Gor’ko). Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov. The project is currently in the postproduction stage. The movie Genre: Comedy. shooting started this May and took place in Gelendzhik (Russia). Film release is planned on the 23th of October 2014.

Synopsis: Boris Ivanovich (principal character’s stepfather) in an attempt to escape from his debts imitated his own funeral. The whole family has to assist him – so that all the guests confid- Timur ed in his death and bury the body. Then everybody should leave Bekmambetov him alone. The main activity will take place at different mourning events. Still, they are fictitious because nobody died.

feature films Mandragora Directory Films Ukrainian production company Directory Films finished shoot- Producer: Igor Savichenko. ing new feature mystic drama Mandragora. The project is in the Director, script: Maria Nikitiuk. postproduction stage, currently the company is working over Cast: Rima Zyubina, Katerina the color correction. Varchenko, Sergei Brzhestovsky, Alina Skoryk, Sergei Malyuga, Oleg Primogenov. Synopsis: Olga’s husband covering the events in the east of Genre: Mystic drama. Ukraine went missing. In despair the woman addresses the sorcerers that tell her about her husband’s death. Heartbroken Olga agrees to drink the portion of Mandragora root because the sorcerers assure her that after several gulps “everything will be forgotten and her grief and life will pass”. But during the ritual something went wrong and the events of this world interlace into a tight knot when it is impossible to discern life from death.

feature films Memory – no Memory! Kinofirma Russian production company Kinofirma is working over new Producer, director, script: Vas- feature comedy Memory – no Memory! Filming process start- ily Rovenskiy. ed at the beginning of July in Moscow and will be finished in the Cast: Natalia Medvedeva, Polina end of August. Maximova, Vadim Demchog, Lyudmila Artemyeva, Alexander Synopsis: Alyona works in the library and dreams of playing a Demidov, Anna Ardova, Sergei part of Juliet in the community theater. Having run into a glam- Badyuk. orous blond in the street she lost consciousness and… comes Genre: Comedy. around in hospital… in another body. In a remarkable manner she changed the bodies with the girl who was born the same minute and second. The girl’s name is Lisa, she is beautiful and rich. She has a handsome husband. Now, like it or not, the girls Vasily Rovenskiy have to take each other’s parts. But each of them wants to re- turn her own body. And they do not have much time for that. feature films The Invincible Kinorob, New People Ukrainian production company Kinorob in coproduction with Producer: Natalia Mokritskaya. Russian New People finished shooting new feature-length Director: Sergei Mokritsky. war drama The Invincible (working title Battle of Sevastopol). Script: Egor Olesov, Natalia The first shooting phase took place in Sevastopol last year in Mokritskaya. November-December and in early April 2014 the second phase Cast: Yulia Peresild, Yevgeny started, it took place in Odessa, Kyiv and Khmelnitsky (Ukraine). Tsyganov, Joan Blackham, Vitaly The movie is produced with support of the State Ukrainian Film Linetskiy. Agency and Russian Ministry of Culture with participation of Genre: War drama. Ukraine TV channel. The film budget totals $5 million. The movie will be released in 3D-format in April 2015. It is also planned to Natalia Mokritskaya produce 4-episode television version of the movie.

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Synopsis: The war catches the provincial student Lyudmila Pav- lichenko in Ukrainian seaport city Odessa. She volunteers to be a soldier and after a brief training in the snipe school she goes to the front. The unschooled talents in shooting and cold blood make her a real professional. Her achievement is 309 killed fas- cists. But during one of the battles she is seriously wounded and her beloved is killed. The miracle helps her to escape from Sevastopol and she departs to the United States in the govern- ment delegation.

feature films Downshifter Kinoslovo, Russian production company Kinoslovo in coproduction with Producers: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Art Pictures Studio started shooting new feature-length dra- Pyotr Anurov. Art Pictures Studio ma with tentative title Downshifter. Filming started in Bali. The Director: Roman Prygunov. movie is produced with support of Russian Cinema Fund. The Script: Denis Rodimin. film budget totals $3.8 million. The movie will be released on the Cast: Danila Kozlovsky, Maria 5th of March 2015. Andreeva, Pavel Voroztsov, Sergei Burunov, Vladimir Simonov. Synopsis: A modern successful man escaped from the Moscow Genre: Drama. vanity to Bali where he goes in surfing and lives carelessly. The main character has to come back to Moscow to solve a problem from the past. In the capital he meets injustice and he is going to fight till the end.

feature films A Track Lenfilm Russian production center Lenfilm started the preproduction Producers: Vyacheslav Tel’nov, works over feature-length lyric comedy A Track. Filming will Alexander Kotelevsky, Eduard take place in St. Petersburg. The movie budget totals $1.2 mil- Pichugin. lion. The project is produced with the support of the Ministry of Director: Ilya Severov. Culture of Russia. Script: Sergei Snezhkin. Cast: Andrei Smolyakov, Natalia Synopsis: Sergei and Lena have been happily married more Surkova, Anna Mikhalkova. than 20 years. A long-expected day for them approaches – their Genre: Romantic comedy. only son obtains Diploma of Higher Education. As it turns out their son left the institute long ago and the diploma was bought in a passage. The family is in scandal. The quarrel between the husband and wife makes Sergei leave his home. Elena rushes to search him but without result. They both try to start a new life but nothing goes well. The characters experience funny and some- times perilous situations to understand in the end that they love each other very much.

feature films Love without Boundaries Georgian production company Metro Studio in coproduction Producer: Mithun Chakraborty. Metro Studio, with S2 Production and Indian company Paparatzy Produc- Genre: Romance. S2 Production, tion is working over new feature-length melodrama with tenta- tive title Love without Boundaries. Filming takes place in Tbili- Paparatzy Production si, Signagi, Kvareli and Stepantsminda. The shooting process will last till the mid of August. The movie premiere is planned at the beginning of next year in Bollywood and then in Georgia.

Synopsis: Love does not know any barriers and boundaries. It has the wings and they make it fly all over the world. Love will find us no matter where we may be. It does not care about your nationality and language. This story deals with both Georgia and India and America. Mithun Chakraborty

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feature films Treasure MetronomFilm Russian production company MetronomFilm started shooting Producer: Arsen Gotlib. new children’s adventure movie Treasure. Filming takes place Director: Irina Volkova. in Vyborg (Russia) and then they will continue in St. Petersburg. Script: Marina Gardash. The project is produced with financial support of the Ministry of Cast: Yevgeny Stychkin, Artem Culture of Russia. Zhymo, Natalia Kolyakanova, Olga Sutulova, Maxim Litovchenko, Synopsis: The main character of the movie is 10-year-old Gosh- Vladimir Kapustin, Alexei Yudnikov. ka who lives in a little provincial town and dreams of becoming a Genre: Adventure. famous circus artist. He and his Moscow friend Katia who came to his uncle, local district police officer, investigate a mysterious robbery of the provincial museum of local studies. By the way Gosha’s mother works as a guardian of this museum. Searching for the ancient treasure which as per the legend was hidden by Arsen Gotlib White Knight the guys get to the circus…

feature films A Duelist Non-Stop Production Russian production company Non-Stop Production prepares Producer: Alexander for shooting new feature-length historical drama A Duelist. Rodnyanskii. The movie is produced in 3D. The film budget is RUB580 million Director, script: Alexei Mizgiryov. (near $16.5 million). The movie premiere is planned for 2015. Genre: Drama.

Synopsis: The events take place in Russia in the 60-ies of the XIX century, in the times of Alexander II rule. The main character is a retired officer and professional duelist Yakovlev. He participates in the duels for money instead of other people – he kills and he is ready to be killed. His past is mystery and in reality by means of the duels the character defends his honor and dignity disgraced many years ago: Yakovlev was defamed and sent to the forced labor camp.

feature films Lieber Hans, Bester Pjotr / Dear Hans, Lovely Peter

Russian film company Passenger Studio in coproduction with Producers: Alexander Mindadze, Passenger Studio, German Ma.ja.de, Ukrainian Sotacinema Group and British Liza Antonova, Heino Deckert, AI Film Production started shooting new feature drama Lieber Oleg Kokhan. Ma.ja.de, Sotacinema Hans, Bester Pjotr / Dear Hans, Lovely Peter. Filming takes Director, script: Alexander Min- Group, AI Film Production place in Ukrainian town Nikopol. The project is supported by the dadze. Ministry of Culture of Russia, the State Ukrainian Film Agency Cast: Rosa Khairullina, Jacob and the German-Russian Co-Development Fund. Diehl , Birgit Minichmayr, Mark Waschke, Andryus Daryala, An- Synopsis: Exceptionally private, full of emotional experiences gelina Rimashevskaya, Anna Ski- story of an engineer Hans F. who arrived with a business trip to danova, Svetlana Kosolapova. USSR on the eve of World War II. The plot is based on the real Genre: Drama. life events of prewar period, on the memories of its direct par- ticipants. As a matter of fact the film represents little known blank spot of the European history when soon after the Molotov- Ribbentrop pact had been signed a short period of friendship, close collaboration and exchange of specialists started between USSR and Germany - before these two countries confronted each other in the mortal combat. Alexander Mindadze

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Local Engagement feature films Russian production company Real Dakota in coproduction with Producers: Renat Davletyarov, Real Dakota, Star Media Russian-Ukrainian Star Media company started shooting new Vlad Riashyn. feature-length war drama Local Engagement. Filming started Director: Renat Davletyarov. in Moscow region and from the end of July it will continue in Script: Yuri Korotkov. Karelia. The movie is produced with the support of the Ministry Cast: Pyotr Fyodorov, Anastasia of Culture of Russia and Karelia government. Mikulchina, Evgenia Malakhova, Ekaterina Vilkova, Andrei Merz- Synopsis: Five young girls appear in the unit. They are very likin, Darya Moroz, Maxim Drozd, young, some of them have just finished school but all of them Anna Chipovskaya, Ilya Alexeev. decided to go at the front and fight for their Motherland during Genre: War drama. WWII. Once one of them notices two German infiltrators in the forest and reports that to master-sergeant at once. He takes the decision to capture the enemy soldiers and sets forth into the forest with the girls. Having laid an ambush in the forest the girls and their commander are ready to take prisoners. However, it turns out there are many more enemy soldiers in the forest than just two…

feature films Yermak’s Treasures Rock Films Russian production studio Rock Films entered the preproduc- Producer: Alexei Uchitel. tion stage of work over new feature-length children’s movie Director: Kirill Seduhin. Yermak’s Treasures. The project received Russian Ministry of Cast: Maria Mironova, Anna Culture grant. Film shooting will take place in vicinity of Perm Mikhalkova, Yevgeny Stychkin, An- (Russia). drei Merzlikin. Genre: Adventure. Synopsis: It is a story-fantasy about the children who got into the revived history of the Stroganoffs Dynasty Times. The movie describes the events of 1553 when Yermak after returning from the Siberian campaign hides the treasures stolen thereafter by Alexei Uchitel some unknown men. Thirteen-year-old boy Kolia sets forth to search for those treasures.

feature films Viy-2. Journey to China Russian production company Russian Film Group is planning Producer: Alexei Petruhin. Russian Film Group to shoot the sequel to mystical movie Viy with the tentative title Director: Oleg Stepchenko. Journey to China. The project is in the preproduction stage. Cast: Jason Flemyng, Charles Currently the location selection and casting is underway. The Dance, Rutger Hauer, Yuri Kolo- work over the computer graphics has started. Filming process kolnikov. will start in February-March 2015 and will take place in Russia, Genre: Mystery. Czech Republic and China. The project is to be finished in De- cember 2015 – early 2016.

Synopsis: The Chinese Legend tells about a good dragon that has the eyelids till the earth and the eyelashes grow through the soil and become the sprouts of the magic healing tea. This tea had the healing power and its recipe was known and guarded by an ancient clan of wizards. The neighboring clan destroyed the wizards, stole the dragon and kept him in a dungeon. Now they possess the tea healing power and the secret of its application.

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feature films Kekech Ernest Abdyzhaparov Kyrgyz Studio SEA started working over Producer: Suyumkan Sulaim- SEA new feature-length musical comedy Kekech. Filming currently anova. takes place in Bishkek. Director, script: Ernest Abdy- japarov. Synopsis: Bakyt and Nurak are brothers-orphans. Elder brother Cast: Nurak Omurbekov, Zhanysh Bakyt works in a taxi, does various jobbing to take care of young- Mairambek-uluu, Kairat Musayev, er Nurak. And Nurak studies in conservatory to be a saxophon- Altynbek Shatenov, Elina Abay- ist. He has a strong stutter. Once on a concert Nurak meets girl kyzy, Ainura Chancharbaeva, Ra- Ayana who deals with choreography. A mutual affection arises hat Bozhokoeva. between the young people. The barrier in their relationship is Genre: Comedy. Ernest Abdyjaparov the boy’s stutter. Every time his excitement makes him foolish because he starts stuttering and spoils the whole situation. But thankfully this story occurs to him only in his dreaming…

feature films 8 First Divorces Ukrainian production company Studio Kvartal-95 in copro- Producers: Vladimir Zelensky, Studio Kvartal-95 duction with Russian production center Gorad finished shoot- Ekaterina Gordetskaya, Andrei ing new feature romantic comedy 8 First Divorces, sequel of Radko, Boris Shefir, Sergei Shefir, 8 New Dates movie. Filming took place in Moscow and Moscow Andrei Yakovlev, Marius Weisberg. region. Movie premiere is planned for the 1st of January 2015. Director: Marius Weisberg. Script: Andrei Yakovlev, Mikhail Synopsis: After the events of 8 First Dates several years have Savin, Dmitry Kozlov, Alexander passed. After another quarrel the spouses Vera and Nikita de- Bragin, Yuriy Kostyuk, Dmitry Gri- cide to divorce. Right tomorrow! But tomorrow they awake gorenko, Yuri Mikulenko. in different families. Nikita lives with another woman and Vera Cast: Oksana Akinshina, Vladimir lives with another man. At first the situation seems funny and Zelensky, Michael Galustjan, Po- our characters try to persuade themselves that the new family lina Maksimova, Alexander Revva. is perfect for them. But love… Still this feeling was real for Nikita Genre: Romantic comedy. and Vera… but it looks like it is too late… Will Vera and Nikita stay with their unloved perfect spouses?

feature films Upward Movement Russian production company TRITE started preproduction pe- Producers: Nikita Mikhalkov, Leo- TRITE riod of works over new feature-length sports drama Upward nid Vereshchagin. Movement. Filming will start next year and its release is ex- Director: Anton Megerdichev. pected in 2016. The movie budget totals RUB240 million (about Genre: Sports drama. $7 million).

Synopsis: In 1972 in Munich USSR national team in a close- fought battle against US national team pulls out a victory in the final of the Olympic basketball competition. This game made history of the Soviet and world sports: three seconds before the final whistle with score 49-50 in favor of the American team Len- ingrad player Alexander Belov scores the points winning for his team the golden Olympic medal.

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feature films The End of Beautiful Era Russian production company Vertical finished shooting new Producer: Ekaterina Maskina. Vertical feature drama The End of Beautiful Era – screen adaptation of Director: Stanislav Govorukhin. the collection of stories Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov. Film- Genre: Drama. ing started late March 2014 and took place in St. Petersburg, Tallinn and Moscow. The project is financially supported by Gaz- prom.

Synopsis: The movie plot will tell about journalist and writer An- drei Lentulov who cannot find place in life. For frankness of com- ments and unordinary personality he had to move from Lenin- grad (old name of St. Petersburg) to Tallinn (Estonia) where he starts working in the local newspaper. Ekaterina Maskina

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Alpha Violet Paris-based distributor Alpha Violet has sold Myroslav Slaboshpyt- skiy’s feature debut The Tribe (co-production of Ukraine and Neth- erlands) to Drafthouse Films for the territory of USA. The film had its world premiere on May 19 at the Cannes International Film Festi- val and picked up three out of four awards of Cannes’ Critics’ Week nominations – the Nespresso Grand Prize, the Revelation Prize and the distribution grant from the Fondation Gan.

The Tribe follows the dark journey of deaf-mute teenager who enters Producers: Valentyn Vasya- a specialized boarding school where, to survive, he becomes part of novych, Iya Myslytska. a wild organization – the tribe. His love for one of the concubines will Director: Myroslav Slabosh- unwillingly lead him to break all the unwritten rules within the Tribe’s pytskiy. hierarchy. Cast: Grygoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexan- der Dsiadevich. Genre: Drama, crime. Duration: 130 min.

СТС Russian commercial broadcaster СТС has secured the rights to make a local adaptation of Schiller Street format from Red Arrow Inter- national.

Schiller Street. The basics: a stage, a few top-class comedians, Format: Schiller Street. a continual flow of surprise guests – and no script whatsoever. The show combines improvisation comedy with a true sitcom feeling. Us- ing a headset, the director guides each comedian with individual in- structions that are unknown to the other cast members – though the audience is kept aware of the hidden dialogue, which is flashed up on the screen. The reaction of the others to a character’s cue is what has made this show so incredibly funny.

FILM.UA Distribution FILM.UA Distribution, part of Ukrainian production and distribution group of companies FILM.UA Group, has sold full range of rights for the first season of original crime series The Sniffer to the French Box Distribution on the whole French-speaking territory of Europe. TF1 has previously acquired both ready-made product and format rights for France. The Sniffer has been a hit in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Israel, the Baltics and particularly in Russia, where it aired on state broadcaster Channel One. The second season is in production now.

They call him The Sniffer. He’s the proud owner of an extraordinarily Producers: Victor Mirsky, acute sense of smell. He can detect things about you that you desper- Andrey Rizvanyuk. ately want to conceal. He’ll find that needle in the haystack. Don’t ever Director: Artem Litvinenko. doubt his extraordinary skills! But the truth is that his sense of smell is Cast: Kirill Kyaro, Ivan as much a curse as it is a gift. This guy can solve a mystery by having a Oganesyan, Maria Anikanova, single sniff around but what happens when all these myriads of smells Aleksandr Tyutin, Boris Ka- force their way into his private life? Let’s just put it this way – he’s not morzin and others. exactly a happy camper. Genre: Detective. Duration: 45 min.

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Inter-Film Kyiv-based Inter-Film group has picked up cinema rights on romcom Single by the Contract on the territory of Ukraine. Co-produced by the Ukrainian FILM.UA Group and Novy Channel the film is to be re- leased on 4th of September.

Slava Lebedev is the Justin Bieber of the Ukrainian music industry. Director: Evgeniy Matvienko. He’s already charmed the pants off of most teenage girls in the coun- Producers: Igor Storchak, try. So it seems that Lily, who’s just come back from the United States Vladimir Lokotko, Andrey Riz- and is still ignorant of both Slava’s existence and his fame, will get vanyuk. caught in a love trap at some point in time. And just as predicted…she Cast: Olga Lerman, Waclaw does. But Slava is also helpless against the girl’s charms. It looks as Warchoł, Olga Tumaykina, though nothing, not even the ocean of overly excited fans, can stand in Sergei Peregudov, Andrey the way of Lily’s and Slava’s love. Well, almost nothing…The couple will Saminin, Valeriy Sozanovsky, still have to wrestle with that nasty provision in Slava’s contract which Aleksandr Dulin, Naomi Vulf. denies him the right to marry or be in an official relationship with ANY Duration: 90 min. girl…

Kultura TV Russian Kultura TV channel has pre-bought rights on docuseries Moon: The Story of Earth from Paris-based distributor Terranoa. Due to premiere on February 2015 it will be in two versions – 2 x 52’ and 2 x 90’. Both in HD.

Since the dawn of time, the Moon plays a fundamental role in bio- Director, scriptwriter: logical life: it acts like the pendulum of the terrestrial clock, dictating François De Riberolles. its rhythm to everything alive. As a universal symbol and a source of Producer: Valerie Grenon. fascination, the Moon is present in every civilisation, through myths, Genre: Documentary. legends and dreams. Based on both human imagination and rational Duration: 2х52 min., 2х90 knowledge, this great journey takes the form of a scientific tale to un- min. veil the mystery of the close relationship between the Moon and the Earth.

MK-DISTRIBUTION Ukrainian independent distributor MK-Distribution has sold TV rights on Lithuanian documentary cycle Great Time for Fishing! (Siandi- enKimba) to the Ukrainian XSport channel (launched on 10th June 2013).

SiandienKimba is a programme for amateurs and professionals Genre: Documentary. about the secrets of fishing: techniques, tackles, squids etc. All the Duration: 22 x 22 min. best advices whatever fish you want to catch!

NTK Krasnodar Star India has licensed its popular TV series Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? to Russia’s NTK Krasnodar. NTK has added it to line-up right after the other Indian drama Aur Baati Hum.

Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Khushi, an 18 year old from UP, is Director: Arshad Khan, simple, rooted in family and is driven by a clear moral compass. She Lalit Mohan. stands for what she believes in, and never lets go of her inculcated Cast: Barun Sobti, Sanaya Irani. values. She will not change herself to conform to people’s shallow ex- Genre: Drama. pectations. In stark contrast, Arnav is a 28 year old self made, ruthless,

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‘win at all costs’ man who believes everything can be bought in the world, including love. As the story progresses, their love-hate relation- ship witnesses a series of dramatic conflicts. Arnav constantly tries to break Khushi’s steadfast morals just in order to prove to himself that he can control everyone; Khushi on the other hand, always tries to fol- low her values and morals.

REN TV Red Arrow International’s renovation competition House Rules has made its way to Russia – REN TV channel acquired rights only to be- come the first of CEE countries to make a local version of the format.

House Rules sees 6 couples put the most important possession of Format: House Rules. their lives – their homes – on the line. And all for a huge, life-changing Duration: 60 min. prize: full payment of their mortgage. Each week one couple hands over the keys to their own home to their competitors, who do a com- plete renovation in seven days, and each homeowner issues their own set of ‘House Rules’ – a list of dos and don’ts of what is allowed during the renovation. But rules are meant to be broken! Will the teams return to a dream house – or to their worst nightmare?

REN TV Russian REN TV channel has picked up format rights on The Gran Plan show from Israel-based Armoza Formats, part of production and distribution group of companies Armoza International Media.

The Gran Plan. In this comical factual format, the three hottest grand- Format: The Gran Plan. mas in town are here to solve your problems… whatever they may be! Duration: 45-60 min. They may not own a Facebook account, but with 230 years of life expe- rience, they know what really counts! Each episode sees three strong willed grannies tackle situations from break ups to unhealthy addic- tions. They help the younger crowd with their problems and force them to move on with their lives… with a few laughs along the way! In a soci- ety reigned by the young and beautiful, ‘The Gran Plan’ goes to show that in order to experience life, you really do need life experience!

Russia Today Discovery Networks has acquired TV rights on Russian docuseries Newborn Russia, which premiered on Russia Today International channel. Russian language version will air on TLC.

Through the eyes of fathers in the waiting rooms of maternity centers, Genre: Documentary. and mothers in wards, viewers will see the miracle of newly born baby.

Studio Kvartal 95 Essential Media in Australia and Dien Quan in Vietnam have licensed Studio Kvartal 95’ entertainment format Crack Them Up from Stockholm-based distributor Eccho Rights. The show has been pre- viously sold to Electus in the US, СТС in Russia, NTK in Kazakhstan, ONT in Belarus, Baltijos TV in Lithuania and Jiangxi in China.

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Crack Them Up. In this heart-warming and hilarious show regular Format: Crack Them Up. people have to make two comedians laugh. If they succeed they can Duration: 40 min. walk away with a cash prize. There is a lot of comedy out there. Crack Them Up gives people an arena to entertain the country and to dis- cover new comedy talent. And a good laugh makes life easier!

Studio U7 Discovery has closed a deal with the Russian distribution company Studio U7 on US unscripted shows Time Warp and Cats 101 (co- production of Discovery and Animal Planet).

Time Warp is a popular science-themed television programme, in Duration: 20 х 30 min. which Jeff Lieberman, an MIT scientist, along with slow motion filming Genre: Documentary. expert Matt Kearney, use their high-speed camera to examine every- day occurrences and singular talents, for example, a drop of water, explosions (many of them), gunshots, ballet dancing, cornflour, shal- low water diving, X games and sometimes some uncanny things like piercing one’s cheek or standing on blades.

Cats 101 is a visual encyclopedia of cat breeds celebrating a variety Duration: 10 х 60 min. of fascinating facts surrounding these furry creatures. From the Per- Genre: Documentary. sian and Siamese, to the Spynx and American Short-Hair – find out which of these animal companions has the longest whiskers and which breed is born cross-eyed. Using experts, cat owners and narration, the series focuses on the characteristics that make each feline unique.

Russian distribution company Studio U7 has also added to its cata- logue two French unscripted shows – Top Cars and Zoo Star Ani- mals.

Top Cars is a programme about the process of manufacturing of the Duration: 8 x 60 min. most powerful and luxurious cars: Audi R8, Alpina B6 and B7, Roding roadster 23, Mercedes SLS AMG GT, RUF CTR 3 Automobile, Ferrari, Wiesmann, Brabus Rocket and others.

Zoo Star Animals. In Scotland, the Norwegian Royal Guard regularly Duration: 14 x 30 min. visits its Colonel, Sir Nils Olav, a penguin in Edinburgh Zoo! In Vienna, a fallen artist searches for inspiration: Nonja, the city zoo’s orangutan, has attracted 70,000 admirers on Facebook. An anteater in Sao Paulo, a pygmy hippopotamus in Malaga and a golden lion tamarin monkey in Montreal are all Zoo Star Animals. Crowds flock to see them. This series introduces us to these remarkable VIPs and their celebrity life- styles. In each episode, we discover new species, highly colorful char- acters that amaze us with their extraordinary background.

Top Film Distribution Russian distribution company Top Film Distribution has opened access to its catalogue to regional broadcasters, partners of Master Resheniy company. All titles – of local and foreign production – may be available on TV since September 2014. Among them an Academy Award-winning period drama The Young Victoria (2009), detec- tive thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), romance The Edge of Love (2008), crime action Setup (2011), thriller The Killer Inside Me (2010), Palme d’Or award-winning romance My Joy (2010), drama Melody for a Street-organ (2008) and others.

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Ukraine TV Channel Ukrainian commercial broadcaster Ukraine will make a local adapta- tion of the vocal talent show Keep Your Light Shining acquired from the Turkish distributor Global Agency. The show premiere is set for 2015.

Keep Your Light Shining is a singing competition where 12 contes- Format: Keep Your Light Shin- tants only get 15-20 seconds to win over the studio audiences and the ing. jury members. Each episode begins with contestants, as talented as they are attractive, standing in near darkness, in a full circle around the stage. At the end of each episode, there is only one who had made it through to the final and one who had been eliminated from the com- petition.

TVF International London-based distribution company TVF International has picked up international rights on Russian documentary The Term (both 52’ and 90’ versions). Produced by Aviator Production it had its premiere on YouTube in June, but was blocked later due to music copyright viola- tion.

The film, known previously as ‘Srok’ when it was launched in Russia, Directors: Pavel Kostomarov, tells the story of the opposition to Russian leader Vladimir Putin includ- Alexandr Rastorguev, Aleksei ing anti-corruption blogger Aleksei Navalny, Putin’s goddaughter Kse- Pivovarov. nia Sobchak and Solidarnost leader Ilya Yashin. Genre: Documentary. Duration: 52 min, 90 min.

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UKRAINIAN THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET OVERVIEW

(JANUARY 1, 2014 – JULY 20, 2014)

Theatrical releases of 180 films took place in Ukraine starting from January 1, 2014. The gross box-office of these films totaled $50.5 mil- lion. About 10.8 million tickets were sold for the premieres of the 2014 theatrical year. TOP-20 releases collected $36.1 million – 71.4% of the total amount. 69.9% of the cinema-goers – near 7.6 million – bought tickets to watch the films listed in the table below.

Total Box-office № Movie Distributor Premier Date Premier Box-office, $ Tickets Sold by 20.07.2014, $

1 Viy (Rus) UFD 30.01.2014 1 620 416 4 638 645 850 356

2 Transformers: Age of Extinction B&H 26.06.2014 1 395 808 3 143 166 665 733

Love In Big City 3 / Lyubov v bolshom 3 UFD 02.01.2014 944 049 3 138 371 590 656 gorode 3 (Rus) 4 Noah B&H 27.03.2014 1 163 127 2 692 621 584 201

5 47 Ronin B&H 01.01.2014 842 237 2 680 457 419 154

6 Maleficent B&H 29.05.2014 895 300 2 363 948 581 650

7 300: Rise of an Empire KNM 06.03.2014 913 770 2 068 391 352 563

8 Rio 2 UFD 20.03.2014 602 532 1 786 816 477 638

9 How to Train Your Dragon 2 UFD 12.06.2014 530 187 1 637 951 440 305

10 Edge of Tomorrow KNM 05.06.2014 447 563 1 390 482 290 147

11 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 B&H 24.04.2014 571 862 1 298 622 291 464 Some like cold / V Sporte Tolko Di- 12 UFD 06.02.2014 518 001 1 261 484 286 871 evushki (Rus) 13 Need for Speed IF 13.03.2014 529 719 1 182 867 236 910

14 RoboCop B&H 13.02.2014 671 026 1 117 044 230 483

15 I, Frankenstein UFD 23.01.2014 504 896 1 112 238 171 905 16 X-Men: Days of Future Past UFD 22.05.2014 429 804 1 057 975 260 080 17 Godzilla KNM 15.05.2014 514 727 956 619 216 378 Kitchen in Paris / Kukhnia v Parizhe 18 TFD 01.05.2014 n/a 910 735 182 147 (Rus) 19 Captain America: The Winter Soldier B&H 03.04.2014 422 861 869 620 203 048

20 22 Jump Street B&H 03.07.2014 248 915 774 224 228 235

TOTAL ТОP-10: 25 540 848 5 252 403

TOTAL ТОP-20: 36 082 276 7 559 924

Sources: Ukrainian Film Distribution

Distributors: B&H – B&H Distribution IF – Inter-Film KNM – Kinomania TFD – Top Film Distribution UFD – Ukrainian Film Distribution

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Azerbaijan is the biggest Caucasian country. It has an area of 86,600 km² and its population exceeds 9.4 million people. The overall number of television households is 1.8 million and the overall number of television sets is approximately 2 million. TV market in the The analogue terrestrial television platform is available in all television households, its coverage is Caucasian countries about 98.9% (1.78 million households). However, satellite TV maintains a strong market share - 1.2 million households (66.7%) use this platform to receive TV signal. Cable TV penetration is about 15% (270,000 households).

A total of 9 broadcasters are available on the analogue terrestrial platform (public broadcaster İTV Azərbaycanın, government-owned AzTV and Idman TV and commercial TV channels ATV, Lider TV, ANS TV, Space TV, Xazar TV and TRT1). It is estimated that approximately 97% of the population can access three or more television networks. Currently there are more than 30 TV channels in Azerbaijan (20 of them are the regional ones). Overall Azerbaijani viewers have access to more than 100 TV channels through satellite platforms.

The first DTT transmissions began as a pilot project in September 2004 in the capital city of Baku. It is estimated that DTT coverage reaches now 95% of the population. Now there are 10 TV channels available for the population through DTT-multiplexes (DVB-T MPEG-4 standard): AzTV, ITV, Idman Azerbaycan, Medeniyyet, ANS, Lider, Space, ATV, Xazar, TRT1. It is planned that in nearest future 24 TV channels will be available through DTT platform. Among the three Caucasian countries, Azerbaijan is leading the DTT process. The full transition from analogue broadcasting to DVB-T is scheduled to take place in 2015.

Data on TV ratings and share of the TV channels in Armenia is not available because of the absence of national-wide TV researches in this country. According to Star ZenithOptimedia the total TV ad spend in the country exceeded $68 million in 2013.

Georgia

Among the three countries of Caucasia, Georgia is the second largest territory: larger than Armenia and smaller than Azerbaijan. It has an area of 69,700 km² and a population of 4.5 million people. The total number of television households is slightly more than 1.5 million and it is estimated that there are approxi- mately 2.5 million television sets in the country.

A total of 7 broadcasters are available on the analogue terrestrial platform (Government-owned Channel 1 Georgia and commercial TV channels Rustavi 2, Sakartvelo, Adjara TV, Marneuli TV, MZE TV and Al- ani TV), although not all broadcasters have a full population coverage. The commercial broadcaster Rustavi 2 has the largest population coverage reaching near 85% of the population. Currently there are more than 60 TV channels and over 40 radio networks in Georgia.

Analogue terrestrial is the primary television platform in the country. Cable and satellite platforms are in- significant and used only in such large cities as Tbilisi and Batumi (approximately 20-30% of households). There are less than 200,000 pay TV subscribers (less than 14% of the total number of households) in the country.

The country has begun a DTT trial which has been running since the summer of 2009 in the city of Tbilisi. For digital terrestrial TV implementation Georgia will use DVB-T2 standard with MPEG4 compression. The analogue switch-off should have been completed in the country till June 17, 2015, although there is yet no special DTT Deployment Programme approved by the Georgian authorities.

Unfortunately, data on TV ratings and share of the TV channels in Georgia is not available because of the absence of national-wide TV researches in this country. Nevertheless TV advertising is a rapidly evolving industry – the total TV ad spend exceeded $110 million in 2013.

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Armenia

Armenia is the smallest country in the region, and is lodged between the two other adjacent Caucasian countries of Azerbaijan and Georgia. It has an area of 29,743 km² and a population of 3.1 million people. The total number of television households equals 785,000 and the overall number of television sets is ap- proximately 840,000, of which 300-400 television sets have a built-in DVB-T tuner.

The analogue terrestrial television platform is the most widespread television platform in Armenia, its pen- etration is about 96%. It should be noted, however, that some television households rely on more than one television platform. Cable television services are one of the most rapidly developing markets in Arme- nia’s telecommunication industry, although cable TV services are provided only in the biggest cities of the country: in Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor and Kapan. Cable TV share is near 15% of Armenian households while satellite TV penetration is about 5%. IPTV services also started to emerge in the biggest towns of Armenia, but their total penetration yet is not significant – near 0.1% of Armenian TV households.

A total of 18 broadcasters are currently available on the terrestrial platform in Yerevan (3 public chan- nels - Armenia 1, Armenia TV and Shokhakat as well as 15 commercial broadcasters: Armenia 2, Shant, Erkir Media, ATV, Armnews, Kentron, Lime, Dar 21, etc.). In other Armenian towns viewers can watch only 5-6 TV channels. Currently there are more than 80 TV channels in Armenia (more than 30 of them are the regional ones).

In accordance with Geneva 06 plan, Armenia will switch to digital TV transmission during year 2015. The federal operator TRBNA has chosen DVB-T2 as the system standard for the country.

Unfortunately, like in other Caucasian countries, data on TV ratings and share of the TV channels in Arme- nia is not available because of the absence of national-wide TV researches in this country. According to Starcom Media West Armenia the total TV ad spend in the country exceeded $50 million in 2013.

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It has been 23 years since the collapse of USSR, but all who lived or just was born in that time are ex- cited to hear about the achievements of the late compatriots on the international film market. And in 2013 Interview such an achievement was the Berlinale award for an outstanding artistic contribution to Kazakh-German drama Harmony Lessons directed by Emir Baigazin. In an exclusive interview to CIS: Content Report Anna Katchko, Harmony Lessons producer, told about the ways to get the attention of European filmmakers, the co-production initiatives between Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan, the cooperation with international sales-agents, and her plans for the future. Anna Katchko: We’ve noticed that you’re working on projects both on the Russian and Kazakh markets. Which I do really like films one is primary for you? What is the reason for that? with no cultural or I left Russia when I was a kid, and since 1991 lived in Germany, France and USA. I started to work in Rus- territorial borders sia in 2006 and in Kazakhstan in 2008. It’s really interesting to work there. But I do not keep only to these two markets – I’m developing new projects in Germany and others countries. Therefore I don’t call myself Russian, Kazakh or German producer, I’m just happy that I feel homey in each of these countries and can shoot there. The driving force is the globalization context by itself.

International co-production has become some kind of a trend in the cinematography, in particu- lar in Europe. Are there any Russian-European co-production initiatives?

Over the last few years Russia has been actively involved into a co-production projects support. I co- organized one of the first international co-production initiatives – Moscow Business Square platform held within the framework of the Moscow International Film Festival – with the state funding. Russia became a new member state of the Council of Europe Eurimages in 2011, and the Russian-German, Russian- French and Russian-Italian film academies had been established. So had been the Russian-German co- development fund. And in 2012 a new business platform had been launched – Red Square Screenings.

The activities of the fund and film academies have been suspended, however, and their future remains unclear.

Anna Katchko What about the co-production state support in Kazakhstan?

The main film institution in Kazakhstan is the national film studio Kazakhfilm. It produces films for gross audience of the local market, auteur films, animated and youth films, and is involved in film and cinema- tography education and festival and international events organization. Also Kazakhfilm provides the first film directors with funding.

When I started to work in Kazakhstan the studio supported my initiative to launch the co-production mar- ket, where amateur and professional cinematographers could represent their projects. The first time this market called Spotlight: New Kazakh Cinema was held in September 2011 within the framework of Eurasia International Film Festival. We received about 100 applications and selected eight to take part in the pitch- ing. Harmony Lessons became the winner with Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s The Owners taking the second prize.

It is this market where I met young talented Kazakh filmmakers Emir Baigazin, Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Serik Abishev, Talgat Bektursynov and Akhat Ibrayev. In 2013 Spotlight: New Kazakh Cinema took place for the second time and we continue to seek new talents.

What films – commercial or art-house – are you working at?

Being a producer I make a clear distinction between the commercial and art-house film, where the first one is focused on the national market, and the second may ‘travel’ around the world. It is easy to distin- guish those producing auteur or festival films from those making commercial movies both in Russia and in Europe.

To me, I do really like films with no cultural or territorial borders. Especially as I lived in different countries. That’s why it is much more interesting for me to work on auteur cinema.

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It is often not enough to be a talented person with a creative potential to attract foreign produc- ers’ attention. How did you managed to do that in case of Kazakh projects?

I have been working in Europe for years and have a lot of friends and acquaintances among the European film industry professionals, in no small part due to my membership [since 2008] in European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) organization. In fact, I was the first producer from the post-Soviet territory to par- ticipate in EAVE seminars.

And when you are in, you start to realize what the European co-production really is, how do European or- ganizations, festivals and funds work, what are their real goals. One year after I finished my EAVE course I became the representative of this organization in Russia, and later in Kazakhstan.

So, launching the Spotlight: New Kazakh Cinema in 2011, not a few from Europe knew I was in Kazakh- stan. And all who received an invitation came here.

What kind of cooperation do European producers prefer – seeking talents and specialists, loca- tion and production capacity usage etc.?

They are interested in all. There are many projects and they are all different – from commercial films they want to co-produce with the Russian majors to auteur films, for which European producers are looking for appropriate locations in Russia and Kazakhstan. Some want to shoot our actors, some are looking for foreign investments outside Europe. There are many projects connected with the history of several coun- tries, for example, those selected for the pitching of Moscow Business Square.

Moscow Business Square was backed by the European programme MEDIA Mundus. How did it get support from Europe?

Media Mundus programme (Creative Europe since 2014) is aimed at educational and co-production proj- ects from the countries being not the members of the EU. You should have a partner in Europe. Moscow Business Square had it – the Baltic Event.

Based on your experience in a co-production, how do co-producers allocate the responsibility and rights on the completed projects?

Almost all projects I have ever produced are international co-productions. And the allocation of respon- sibility is always different. It depends mostly on the participation interest of the parties and the stage of involvement of the producers. Often you have a delegate producer, the one responsible for the creative and technical part of the project. As for the rights, they are allocated percent-wise in proportion to the expenses of the parties. It must be mentioned that auteur films from the Eastern Europe with the focus on festivals usually don’t get a lot of money in the international cinema distribution.

Who is the one making decision on submitting the project to festival?

The international festival premiere is very important for each and every auteur film. Their future depends on it. The producers and sales-agents are those who decide to submit it or not, and in the case of interna- tional co-production it is the co-producers’ task to choose the sales-agent.

The main issue is the communication process. Sometimes it happens that people from Russia and Ka- zakhstan can’t explain their opinion to German partners and vice versa. That’s why there always must be the producer making the most important decisions.

At what production stage do you sign an agreement with the sales-agent?

It’s very important for me to have a sales-agent at the development stage already. And if it is a co-pro- duction I need the distributors at the same time. It’s hard to do that if the director is unknown on the in- ternational level, so the producer should do everything he/she can to make sales-agents, distributors, TV channels and festivals organizers aware of the project from the very beginning. In case with the Harmony Lessons we prepared the ground and had a lot of offers from the European sales-agents at the post- production stage. I chose the French Films Distribution company.

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