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RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM MARKET
GUIDE
• Festivals • Cinemas •Producers • Distributors •• Sales Agents • TV Channels •
2015
DOCUMENTARIES.NEW TITLES
[email protected] WWW.REFLEXIONFILMS.COM
Our village has always been a place of exile, a land of prisoners. Once in the winter, on the edge of the village we found an old man in an old car. He was freezing. He had nothing and was from nowhere. Now he lives in the cellar of our church. Step by step we get to know his story…
ON THE EDGE
Country of production: RUSSIA / 2014
49 minSubtitles: EnglishLanguage: Russian
HD
This film tells us three stories about men extracting natural gas in Bovanen-kovo on the Yamal Peninsula. There the pipeline «Nord Stream» starts from. There are also three heroes - young assistant driller, successful boiler room chief engineer and old plumber. For all of them working in Gazprom is the only opportunity to earn real money because there is no high paid job in their hometowns so they are forced to leave their families for a long time to be able to support them. They have to decide whether earned money is worth all the problems with families. Each of them make s his own choice.
MEN’S CHOICE
Country of production: RUSSIA / 2014
75/52 minSubtitles: EnglishLanguage: Russian
HD
KAMCHATKA. THE CURE FOR HATREDFormer journalist Vechyaslav Nemyshev traveled many times to Chechnya in 2001 to report on the war for Russian TV. Thirteen years later, his life has changed beyond recognition. Living on a remote island in the far east of Russia, far away from Moscow and memories of the violence of war, he is trying to forge a new existence. He films everyday life on the island, with gorgeous shots of spawning salmon and of fishermen going about their work.
44 minSubtitles: EnglishLanguage: Russian
HDCountry of production: RUSSIA / 2014
IDFA 2014Best Mid-Length
Documentary
TRACES IN THE SNOWThe world’s first documentary about Siberia’s punk rock scene in the 1980s. It was a phenomenon of those times that this music existed thousands of miles away from the movement’s epicentres in New York and London. The documentary uses rare footage of Siberian punk legends including the punk poet and songwriter Yanka Dyagileva and the controversial godfather of Russian punk Yegor Letov.
HD Country of production: RUSSIA / 2014
Warsaw Film Festival 2014Documentary competition
63/52 minSubtitles: EnglishLanguage: Russian
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To obtain public support, Russian producer of the film project should obtain the status of "National film". This status allows using the privilege of exemption from VAT (18%). For submission of documents for public support, the projects should not have the status of "National film", but must meet the requirements for this status. The status can be granted after the decision has been made for project support. The status of "National film" must be obtained before the project financing starts.
THE FOLLOWING FILM PROJECTS CAN OBTAIN THE STATUS OF "NATIONAL FILM":• Co-production film projects with those countries which the Russian Federation has signed international
co-production agreements (Bulgaria, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and CIS countries);• Co-production film projects with the participating countries of the European Convention on Co-Production;• Other projects meet with conditions of the Federal Law #126 dated August 22, 1996 On State Support of
Cinematography in the Russian Federation.
Conditions for obtaining the status of "National film" in accordance with the Federal Law #126 dated August 22, 1996 On State Support of Cinematography in the Russian Federation:
Public support for documentary film production in the Russian Federation is carried out by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The public funding of film production under the Russian law may not ex-ceed 70% of the estimated value of its budget. In specific cases, taking into account the artistic and cultural significance of the film project could be decided about the public funding for ‘’National film’’ up to 100%.
• The film producer is a Russian Federation citizen or a legal person duly registered in the Russian Federation;• The majority of the film authors are citizens of the Russian Federation;• The film crew (production directors, photography directors, cameramen, soundmen, artistic directors,
costume designers, film editors and leader actors) includes no more than 30% of people that do not have Russian Federation citizenship;
• The film is shot in Russian or other languages of the people of the Russian Federation, excluding cases when usage of a foreign language is an integral part of the artistic concept;
• Not less than 50% of the total volume of work on film production at estimated prices for film production;• distribution and exhibition is performed by cinematography organizations duly registered in the Russian
Federation;• Foreign investment in film production does not exceed 50% of the estimated cost of the film.
The state support for documentary films in 2014 – about 500 million rublesThe average amount of state support per one documentary film in 2014 – about 2 million rublesDocumentary films supported in 2014 – up to 240 films
Moscow Business Square - the unified communication business platform & lead-ing event for connecting the Russian film-making community with overseas pro-ducers, distributors, representatives of state and private funds, investors and sponsors, working in the sphere of international co-production and cooperation. «Moscow Business Square» combined together up to 400 film industry profes-sionals from more than 20 countries every year. More than 120 co-production projects presented in 6 years. More than 12 co-productions completed.
Documentary Film Center (DFC) is the first Russian cinema hall for documentary films and a brand new cultural and educational venue. This cinema hall is a per-fect place for screenings, thematic lectures, workshops and film festivals. DFC organizes Russian premiere of top documentary films. We usually work di-rectly with international sales and distribution companies (Cinephil, Go2Films, Autlook, Rise and Shine, Dogwoof). Also DFC started recently to work as inde-pendent buying and distribution company.
The Russian Documentary Guild is the only professional organization in Russia, which unites filmmakers and television workers (more than 250 members and production studios from all over Russia) specializing in documentary and pop-ular-science films, documentary TV programs and news coverage. The primary Guild’s projects are International distribution of Russian documentaries under the RGDOC brand, development of the National DOC-club Network and the Na-tional Documentary Rating.
MOSCOW BUSINESS SQUARE
DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER (DFC)
RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY GUILD
Contacts: Sergei Kachkin, Project Coordinator
Contacts: Ksenia Gapchenko, film programming
[email protected] www.cdkino.ru
Contacts: [email protected] www.rgdoc.ru
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MOSCOW BUSINESS SQUARE 2015
June 2015 Moscow, RussiaSUBMIT YOUR PROJECT TO MOSCOW CO-PRODUCTION FORUM!Deadline 2015: May 1
Moscow Co-production Forum is the main event of MOSCOW BUSINESS SQUARE - business platform of the 37th Moscow International Film Festival. This is the only large-scale international event for film business professionals in Russia.
www.miffbs.ru
P A R T N E R S
This year we are scouting for up to 20 co-production projects from all parts of the world.
PROJECT CRITERIA:· Fiction, documentary or transmedia projects with a minimum length of 70 minutes;· Project has to be at the Scenario stage or Pre-production stage;· The project has to have high potential for international distribution;· By the moment of submission, producer and director have to be attached to the project;· The project has to prove that 20% of financing is already secured.
The studio was established in Moscow in 2008 with its focus on the production and promotion of the independent documentary filmmaking. The inaugural internation-al project UNEMPLOYED, a co-production with the Polish company Eureka Media, was completed in 2009. The feature film LINAR was released in 2013, success-fully screened and awarded internationally. Currently, Albatross is working on the post-production of the ARCTIC ALCHEMY, a documentary road movie, which was shot in the USA and Canada.
April filmlab is an independent film company. Its main goal is to work in the co-pro-duction field. The company produces documentaries as well as fiction films. The team always sets itself a target to make films with high artistic values. The last film it produced is PERM-36. REFLEXION, documentary, 70 min, 2017, Russia (on post-pro-duction).
The company specializes in production of documentary films both for TV and cre-ative documentary industry. Based both in Moscow, Russia and Bilbao, Spain the company provides unique co-production possibilities in Russia. The focus of the company is current affairs and social issues documentaries about Russia. The list of completed projects includes more than 30 hi-end documentaries both for TV and theatrical release.
Author studio is an independent film company. The studio is primarily concerned with auteur cinema. Its main goal is work in the co-production sphere. The company produces documentaries as well as fiction films. The most recent productions are the documentary John the Baptist, 60 min, 2015, Russia (in post-production) and the feature film Kharms, 90 min, Russia-Macedonia, a joint project with Proline Film (pre-production).
Contacts: Nastia Tarasova
[email protected] www.vimeo.com/channels/albatrossdoc
Contacts: Sergei Kachkin
[email protected] www.onthewayhome.eu
Contacts: [email protected]
Contacts: Ivan Bolotnikov
ALBATROSS FILM STUDIO
APRIL FILMLAB
AUTHOR STUDIO
ARTVIDEO STUDIO
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St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Documentary Film Studios is Russia’s oldest state docu-mentary studios, having been founded in 1918. Hundreds of films, covering every aspect of Russian and foreign history in the 20th Century, have been created on the Studio chronics. Today the Studio is one of the largest producers of documentaries, chronicles and film annals in Russia.
The Studios has worked with Oy Yleisradio Ab (Finland), Deutche Welle and ZDF (Germany) (with ZDF the Studios produced the first Russian-German documentary series of films under the general title «Be Cursed, War» which was an examination of the Second World War), the BBC and Channel 4 (Great Britain).
“Center of National Film” is a giant corporation was created, specializing in the cre-ation of popular science, documentary, educational and corporate films with territo-rial clusters in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The company continues and develops the best traditions of the Soviet film school, actively introducing advanced technologies and techniques of film production and media influence.
Movies of CNF Studio appeal to a wide audience of all ages and interests in Russia and foreign countries, as evidenced not only by numerous awards at international festivals, but also by constant attention of foreign partners to our activity.
“Ostrov Studio” is an independent production company founded by Sergey Mirsosh-nichenko (7 Up. Born in USSR series, Unknown Putin) and his colleagues in 1999.
Since 2006 Ostrov Studio programs and organizes documentary sections within the Moscow International Film festival. Since 2010 company produces weekly tv-slot for creative documentaries “Watching and Discussing” at TV Rossia-K (Kultura)
“Pervoe Kino”, was founded in 2001 by two young moviemakers – Evgeny Grigoryev & Artem Plolsaty. The main specialization of the company is creation & production of documentary projects – films & cross-media, as well as work in related genres – documentary theater, television, Internet video, music video industry.
Moscow based film production company TAU PICTURES was founded in 2010 with a main goal to make international co-productions. The last film produced by the com-pany is the feature film ‘’I’M GOING TO CHANGE MY NAME’’, written and directed by Maria Saakyan (co-production: Armenia/ Russia/Denmark/ Germany). Currently TAU PICTURES has two documentaries in development and one in post-production.
Since 2005 Ethnogeographic Research Foundation (Ethnofund) has produced more than 20 documentaries (most of them with Russian State support), that are broadcasted on Russian TV channels. Ethnofund has won a number of prizes and diplomas at different IFFs.
Starting from 2010 Ethnofund is looking for foreign partners and works with international co-productions. Company’s goal is to bring Russian directors and Rus-sian stories to international TV and film market.
Vita Aktiva specializes in film production (feature, documentary, shorts). The compa-ny makes successful foreign co-productions (Germany, France, Serbia, Brazil). Works with Russian and European film funds and markets. Films participate in major Euro-pean festivals (Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Leipzig).
Marina Razbezhkina Studio is a production company, it was created by Marina Raz-bezhkina, a film director, a screenwriter, a producer, a member of the European Film Academy, of the Nika Russian Cinematographic Art Academy, of the Guild of Docu-mentary Cinema and TV, of the Guild of Russian film directors, of Kinosoyuz. Marina Razbezhkina has also been the founder of the Documentary Film and Theatre School, a close collaborator of the Marina Razbezhkina Studio.
Contacts: Elena Dovgan, Festival and distribution manager
Contacts: Ellada Brotskaya, Head of Market-ing and Distribution Department
Contacts: Olga Kuchmenko
Contacts: с[email protected]
Contacts: Konstantin Nafikov, producer
[email protected]: Vladislav Ketkovich, producer
Contacts: [email protected]
Contacts: [email protected]
ST. PETERSBURG DOCUMENTARY FILM STUDIOS
CENTER OF NATIONAL FILM
OSTROV STUDIODOCUMENTARY HOUSE
“PERVOE KINO”
VITA AKTIVAMARINA RAZBEZHKINA STUDIO
TAU PICTURESETHNOFUND
ETHNOGEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION
TAU PICTURES
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[email protected] www.filmstart.pro
DC FILM
FILMSTART
FISHKA-FILM
MARATHON-ART FILM STUDIO
THE ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY PRODUCTION
«THE XXI СENTURY» NATIONAL FILMS STUDIO-CENTRE
STUDIO217
SVOY POCHERK LLC
VERTOV. REAL CINEMA
ROCK FILMS
ANTIPODE is a new Eastern European project aiming at the aggregation of rights on the feature, animation and documentary films produced on the territory of the former Soviet Union, the global sales of all types of these rights on these pictures, and certainly on their festival distribution.
ANTIPODE works in the context of established world traditions and principles of cin-ema business. Our company is open to cooperation, does not swagger and is always happy to find new business and festival partners.
Beat Films is a Moscow-based documentary agency that promotes creative documen-taries on modern culture and develops the genre on local scale. It runs the Beat Film Festival, the largest documentary festival with a focus on music in Eastern Europe, curates documentary sections of several film festivals across Russia and distributes both Russian and international documentary titles throughout the year.
REFLEXION FILMS is a world sales company based in Moscow. We are one of the leading Russian sales companies representing documentary content in international market. Its line-up introduces many new titles on Arts & Culture, Social Life, Nature, Ethnography and Science. REFLEXION FILMS also is a full service theatrical distribu-tion company specializing in documentary film theatrical releases in Russia.
By the beginning of 2015 The Network, operated by the Russian Documentary Guild consists of 25 clubs all over Russia and is growing annually. United by partnership agreements, the clubs within the Network screen common doc content, with synchro-nized schedule and promotion, provided at www.rgdoc.ru.
The Network includes DOK clubs in Moscow, Vladivostok, Saint-Petersburg, Izhevsk, Kostroma, Makhachkala, Nizhniy Tagil, Novosibirsk and other cities. The Network pro-motes and screens doc films both in commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Contacts: Natalia Arshavskaya, Festivals and Documentary
Contacts: Alyona Bocharova, Managing Director
Contacts: Olga Kolegaeva
Contacts: Nikita Tikhonov-Rau RGDOC vice- president of Russian Documentary Guild
ANTIPODE SALES & DISTRIBUTION
BEAT FILMS
RGDOC CINEMA NETWORK
REFLEXION FILMS
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DOKer was created 4 years ago to bring wonderful independent documentary films from all over the world to the Russian audience and provide a discussion platform for authors, experts and spectators. DOKer has already seen 8 seasons in 6 major cities located in central Russia (Moscow, Yaroslavl, Saint Petersburg), Ural (Yekaterinburg), Caucasus (Vladikavkaz) and Siberia (Krasnoyarsk) with more than 300 screenings for over 30,000 viewers.
Watching and Discussing Show (Smotrim...Obsughdaem...) - is a weekly prime time talk show, the only one to broadcast creative, feature length documentaries in Rus-sia at TV Kultura (Rossia-K) basic broadcasting channel. The films (52 minutes to 2 hours) are followed by 39 minutes in-studio discussion moderated by Vladimir Khoti-nenko. Starting from 2010, over 100 documentaries were screened in the show.
24_DOC – the 24/7 TV channel of world’s best documentaries. It is the only doc-umentary channel in Russia and the CIS. 24_DOC is a part of VGTRK’s off-the-air package Digitalis a part VGTRK.24_DOC is:• people and events changing the world• actual stories interesting for wide audience• the fascinating movies noted by the international festivals
Contacts: Irina Shatalova
[email protected] www.dokerproject.ru
Contacts: [email protected]
Contacts: Alexey Layfurov
DOKER PROJECT
24_DOC
TV KULTURA
| TV-CHANNELS |
ARTDOCFEST
It is the largest festival of documentary films in Russia. Russian-language films that have been shot at any location of the world and not earlier than 18 months before the beginning of the Festival can take part in the competition program and noncompetition program “Sreda”. Only films that have not been shown publicly on the territory of Rus-sia before the “Artdocfest” can participate in the Festival. Every year the registration deadline is September 10th. The Festival is held annually in the beginning of December. “Artdocfest” also has non-competition retrospective programs and special screenings that include films shot in foreign languages. These programs are organized by program directorate and the terms are specified with copyright holders on an individual basis.
Beat Film Festival is the largest international documentary festival with a focus on music and modern culture in Eastern Europe, a vibrant mix of film screenings, parties, special events and talks on crossing borders with multimedia, contemporary art, interactive video, etc. It runs in Moscow and has a regional extension that takes place in 15 cities across Russia. 2015 dates: May 28 — June 7.
Contemporary Science Film Festival was founded in 2011 by Polytechnic Museum and its partners. The Festival takes place in October in Moscow and travels around the country during the year. For the international competition the Festival looks for feature-length documentaries about science, scientific activity, real and potential subjects of scientific research.
The festival competition program includes documentaries that develop the cinema-tography aesthetics first introduced by Robert Flaherty in his masterpiece “Nanook of the North”. The festival program also includes Russian documentaries competition “Russian Flahertiana” as well as various workshops and special programs investigat-ing different social and humanitarian issues. IDFF Flahertiana-2015 will take place in Perm in September 18-24, 2014.
Contacts: [email protected]
Contacts: Kirill Sorokin, Artistic Director
[email protected]@beatfilmfestival.ruwww.beatfilmfestival.ru
Contacts: [email protected]
Contacts: Alina Shirinkina, Festival Chief Coordinator
[email protected] www.eng.flahertiana.ru
BEAT FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
FLAHERTIANA
CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL 360
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The International Science Film Festival World of Knowledge was organyzed by Len-nauchfilm studio and the Centre of National Film studio in February 2006.
The festival program includes the regular International Competition and the Special program and usually take place in Sankt-Peterburg in the late of October every year. Popular science and education films produced in two previous years are accepted for the International Competition of the festival. Watching the invisible... discovering the unexplored... trying to glance into the future... Everything
International Documentary, Short, and Animated Film Festival Message to Man is held annually in St. Petersburg. The Festival was founded in 1989 in Leningrad. Registered by FIAPF. Cash prizes.• International Competition (full-length and short documentaries, short fiction and animated films);• In Silico International Competition of Short Experimental Films;• National Competition of Documentary Films;• Special Programs.
The XXV Message to Man will take place on 19-26 September 2015 in St. Peters-burg, Russia. The entry call is open till May 31.
Documentary programs of the MIFF include competition program (up to 7 films) aimed to reach wide theatrical audience. The winner is awarded by Silver Statue of St. George.
“Free thought” is an out-of-competition program, dedicated to the world best films of the year - winners of the film festivals, leaders of box office, new works by great masters.
Programs are created and curated by Sergey Miroshnichenko, Grigoriy LibergalDates: Second part of June, 2015, deadline: April, 1
Place: Irkutsk, Russia. Date: 25th-29th of September 2015.The film festival “PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT” is conceived by the organizers as a
platform to make people think about inter-relations between mankind and nature. The Festival aims at raising environmental awareness by means of cinematography.
Submission of films for the Festival contest programme will finish on the 30st of April 2015.
Contacts: [email protected]
Contacts: Ann Taraskina, International Department
Contacts: [email protected]
Contacts: Kirill Sorokin, Artistic Director
THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL WORLD
OF KNOWLEDGE
MESSAGE TO MAN
MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT Baikal International Festival of
Documentary and Popular-Science Films
The festival has been held since 2004. Saratov Sufferings, it is a competition of doc-umentary films, competition of amateur and experimental films, cinema panorama, out-of-competition screenings, special programs, master classes.
Conditions of participation: To participate in the competition the authors should send us documentaries, shoot-
ed on film or video in the period from June 2014 till July 2015 which correspond to the melodramatic genre: • documentaries, full-length and short; • documentaries shooted for TV; • amateur documentaries, shooted on film, video or made with the computer graphics.
The Stalker International Film Festival is aimed at raising awareness of human rights issues and legal consciousness of Russian society through cinema. Stalker Festival is a non-political and non-profit event.The Festival is held annually in Moscow and traditionally opens on December 10th, when adoption of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”by the UN is commemorated throughout the world.The name of the Festival is based on the human values which were advocated in the film- mercy, love to one’s neighbor, personal responsibility of a human being vis-a-vis society.
Contacts: [email protected]
Contacts: Stepanov Igor, General ProducerMaria Vorobieva, Coordinator
SARATOV SUFFERINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY DRAMA
STALKER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SIBERIADOC
SiberiaDOC project is based in Krasnoyarsk (Russia) and mainly consists of two parts: Film Club and Travelling Documentary Film Festival around Siberian Region. When SiberiaDOC chooses films, it is geared to creative documentary. These films are inter-esting from the stylistic point, they are expressing an author’s idea and individuality. SiberiaDOC is interested in authors-researchers.
Contacts: Kristina Daurova, program director
Documentary Film Center (DFC) is the first Russian cinema hall for documentary films and a brand new cultural and educational venue. This cinema hall is a perfect place for screenings, thematic lectures, workshops and film festivals. The regular program includes present-day documentaries, educational and science fiction films. Among the first in Russia DFC brings to Moscow such doc-umentary premieres as The act of killing, The black fish, Concerning violence, 1989, Night will fall, Cathedrals of culture, Happiness, Rich hill, The optimists, My stuff, show-case of festival DOK LEIPZIG and IDFA (Kids and Docs program). Educational program of DFC includes public talks and lectures of famous documentary film makers, producers and other film professionals: Ulrich Seidl, Ally Derks, Thomas Balmes, Godfrey Reggio, Luciano Barisone and others. With the support of embassies and cultural centers the DFC presents National documentary film weeks, screens best films made by foreign directors and shows tendencies of national cinema. September 2014 DFC together with the Museum of Moscow founded festival «CENTER». This festival unites films which explore city as giant social system and new borders of the modern megacities.
| Documentary Film Center |
2, Zubovsky Blvd, Moscow, 119021,Russian Federation
Tel: +7 495 637-79-19Web: www.cdkino.ru www.facebook.com/cdkino
