SATELLITE CHANNEL for MEN Is a Satellite Channel Featuring Ukraine-Produced Content BOLT for the Male Audience
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SATELLITE CHANNEL FOR MEN is a satellite channel featuring Ukraine-produced content BOLT for the male audience. BOLT features the best series for men produced by FiLM.UA and Star Media, two Ukrainian leading film production companies widely known not only in the CIS but worldwide, that are repeated award winners at numerous international competitions. BOLT features modern Ukrainian content for men: "The Cardsharp", "The Sniffer," "The Attackers", "The Bomber," "Once upon a Time in Odessa," "Battle for Sevastopol", "Island of the Unwanted ", "Inseparable" and others. Along with the series that has already won the hearts of audience, the channel also will feature the freshest Ukraine-produced content. Channel’s library is regularly updated by joint efforts of FILM.UA and Star Media. At the same time, the channel plans to broadcast thematic programs dedicated to the workings of world’s film industry, top series, stories of creation of well-known movies, reviewing latest releases and a lot of other programs on no less interesting subjects. At the same time, BOLT is an ad free television channel. Star Media was founded in 2006. Presently, Star FILM.UA GROUP is the largest in Eastern Europe vertically Media is one of the leaders in production and integrated group of companies in the film and television distribution of theatrical and television movies, production industry. The Group is engaged in the telenovelas and series, TV shows and docudramas. development, production, adaptation, distribution and Star Media produces annually over 600 hours delivery of audiovisual content and provides a full range of telenovelas, prime time series, dozens of TV of services. movies and theatrical movies and historical FILM.UA GROUP comprises a number of companies reconstructions. As of 2016, Star Media’s library providing a full range of professional post production of rights comprised about 4,500 hours of finished services in processing images and sound, development content produced by the company in various of 3D-graphics and VFX of any scale and complexity. The genres. group companies are members of VES (Visual Effects The movies and series produced by Star Media are Society). invariably rated high and regularly reach the Top- Special effects created by FILM.UA GROUP regularly 10 of the pop charts on the leading TV channels. appear on the shortlists of prestigious international Star Media’s products have been nominees for awards, including VES Awards and FICCI BAF. and winners of/at such prestigious international film festivals and awards. THE CARDSHARP 10 episodes, 2013 CRIME DRAMA During the peak of socialism in the 1980s, 27-year old Kostik Voloshyn dreams of escaping abroad. Not willing to “build the socialist society”, Kostik lives a double life; his job as a scientist at a research institute is merely a front for his card game hustling at which he is an expert. However, when Kostik wins a large sum from under the nose of Goga, a tough card player, he returns to Odessa to avoid reprisals. Hoping to ‘earn’ enough money to leave the Soviet Union for good, Kostik successfully swindles all his opponents with the help of his uncle, 45-year old Balaban, a leading gangster in Odessa. Kostik is unaware that it was Balaban who committed a serious crime twenty years ago for which his brother, Kostik’s father, was arrested. Balaban helped Kostik’s father to escape over the border, but the latter had no other choice but to leave his wife and little son to their fate in the USSR. 4,100,000 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE BATTLE FOR SEVASTOPOL 4 episodes, 2015 WORLD WAR 2, HISTORICAL DRAMA The war catches a young student Lyudmila Pavlichenko off-guard in Odessa. She volunteers in the army and is moved to the front line after a brief stint in the sniper school. Her natural marksmanship and ability to keep calm under duress make her a true sharpshooter. Her personal hitlist is over 309 names long. But Lyudmila is severely shot, and her lover is killed in one of the battles. The girl barely manages to leave Sevastopol and is sent to USA as part of the government mission. In the White House, she is introduced to Eleanor Roosevelt, and her speech to the press makes her a household name in the states. “Gentlemen, you’ve been hiding behind my back for way too long” — two months after her famous speech, the Allies open the Second Front. 870,000 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE ONCE UPON A TIME IN ODESSA 12 episodes, 2011 ADVENTURE MELODRAMA Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish revolutionary and Soviet military leader. His commanding personality and unconventional nature led Isaak Babel to base his character Benia Krik in The Odessa Tales on this legendary criminal. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik was an exceptional and eccentric character. He rose quickly through the ranks of the criminal world, becoming head of the mob and establishing his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he held the hearts of the people in his hand and soon controlled the entire city. Artistic and witty, his bold crimes played out like mini dramas but Yaponchik, always calculating his next move, also had a generous nature. He held huge feasts for the whole population of Odessa, giving money and food to orphans, the homeless, the unemployed, newlyweds as well as families who had fallen victim to gangster crime. Yaponchik was in power for only three years from 1917 to 1919, but these were the most dramatic years of his life, filled with more action than most people experience in an entire lifetime - his rise to power, his daring crimes, his idealism and generosity and his love of two women - his beautiful wife, Tsilia and anarchist Lisa, his loyal accomplice who remained by his side until the end. 11,412,000 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE THE BOMBER 8 episodes, 2011 WORLD WAR 2 DRAMA During World War II, a Soviet aircraft crashes on Nazi-occupied territory. But pilot Grivtsov and his lady, radio operator Katya miraculously survive. Another survivor is flight navigator Linko, who ejected from the plane. Each of them has to find his way and perform military tasks, return to his own forces and simply to stay alive. The situation becomes more complicated because of an act of sabotage, which has been committed before their take-off at the aerodrome. Honest Grivtsov gets on the bad side of the colonel of SMERSH by defending his friends. Instead of being granted a medal “Star” for his 100th flight, he is pronounced a traitor and is to be executed. 1,000,000 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE THE ATTACKERS 12 episodes, 2013 WORLD WAR 2 DRAMA World War 2. Young pilots, Leonid and Boris arrive at military air training school only to find that they have been enlisted to an air regiment and will be going soon to the frontline. Unfortunately the young pilots fail in their first mission. Instead of covering the Soviet attacker planes, Leonid gushes from his formation to attack the German Messerschmitts. This causes a breach in the defensive formation and, deprived of protection, the attacker planes come under fire from the German fighters and everyone is killed. Back on the ground Leonid and Boris are sent to the division’s headquarters where they are to be tried and executed. On their way to the place of execution, however, the commander of the attacker wing arrives at the military airfield and petitions personally for their release. Our heroes are given one last chance. Now they become attackers and will have to show responsibility and courage every moment of their service and execute the most complex of orders without hesitation or fear for their own lives. 13,900,000 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE INSEPARABLE 4 episodes, 2013 DRAMA It's April of 1986. The town of Pripyat, Ukraine. A core meltdown occurred at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Over thirty people died during the blast but the estimated death toll as a result of the radiation fallout will reach four-digit numbers. This accident will be considered the world’s largest ecological disaster. Set at ground zero of a catastrophe, this film will reveal the details of the Chernobyl event. The shocking news of the explosion at the nuclear power plant has spread, as the world watched the tragedy in fear and confusion. Hearts went out to those who displayed selfless courage and integrity in the initial efforts to stabilize the reactor power. But some were too busy being in love to notice what had just happened in nearby Chernobyl. The disaster has faded into the background... This is an account of love and loss, bravery and supernatural stoicism in the face of unbeatable odds. 840,000 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE ISLAND OF THE UNWANTED 24 episodes, 2011 ADVENTURE DRAMA A group of tourists finds their lives changed forever after an exotic voyage to Asia leaves them shipwrecked and abandoned. As we discover later, it is no accident that thirteen people survive and find themselves stranded on an uninhabited island. Twelve of them were sent on this ill-fated cruise by business partners, parents or children, who, for one reason or another, did not want them to return. Only one member of the group is there by pure chance. Who is the thirteenth man and why was this expedition organized? While mystery and danger lie in store, the survivors try to work out the answers to these questions and whether they can survive the treachery of their nearest and dearest. 9,600,000 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE THE SNIFFER (1, 2) THE SNIFFER – 1: 8 episodes, 2013 THE SNIFFER – 2: 8 episodes, 2015 DETECTIVE FILM A group of tourists finds their lives changed forever after an exotic voyage to Asia leaves them shipwrecked and abandoned.