One day after dissident Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, members of the Ukrainian film industry took to the Croisette to call for a total boycott of Russian movie. Meanwhile, just steps away in the Palais des Festivals, the director’s long-awaited return to cinema’s grandest stage was overshadowed by questions about the festival’s controversial selection and over the film’s financial ties to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Speaking at a politically charged press conference on Thursday, Serebrennikov described Russia’s war in Ukraine as a “total catastrophe” but rejected calls for a boycott of Russian film. “I fully understand people who are calling for boycotts. I understand them because they’re so pained, so hurt by what is happening in the country,” he said.
But efforts to ban a nation’s culture, he added, were an “impossible” feat: “I believe we shouldn’t boycott language,...
Speaking at a politically charged press conference on Thursday, Serebrennikov described Russia’s war in Ukraine as a “total catastrophe” but rejected calls for a boycott of Russian film. “I fully understand people who are calling for boycotts. I understand them because they’re so pained, so hurt by what is happening in the country,” he said.
But efforts to ban a nation’s culture, he added, were an “impossible” feat: “I believe we shouldn’t boycott language,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s $100 million private film fund Kinoprime is ready for business, the fund’s CEO, Anton Malyshev, said in Cannes this week.
Financed to the tune of $100 million over the next three years, the fund can provide up to 50% of a film’s production budget, with a $2 million cap per project. Its first investment, “Fairy,” the new feature from Berlinale prize winner Anna Melikyan (“Mars”), is currently in post-production and will be released in Russia later this year.
The former managing director of the Russian State Film Fund, Malyshev said Kinoprime would meet a need currently unaddressed by the state funding mechanism. “The Russian cinema fund has just one aim: to make Russian films more box office in Russia. It’s about blockbusters,” said Malyshev. “We need quality movies—not only blockbusters. Very good art projects are good for us.”
He added that for an industry...
Financed to the tune of $100 million over the next three years, the fund can provide up to 50% of a film’s production budget, with a $2 million cap per project. Its first investment, “Fairy,” the new feature from Berlinale prize winner Anna Melikyan (“Mars”), is currently in post-production and will be released in Russia later this year.
The former managing director of the Russian State Film Fund, Malyshev said Kinoprime would meet a need currently unaddressed by the state funding mechanism. “The Russian cinema fund has just one aim: to make Russian films more box office in Russia. It’s about blockbusters,” said Malyshev. “We need quality movies—not only blockbusters. Very good art projects are good for us.”
He added that for an industry...
- 5/19/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
They must have a ‘Russian flavour’.
Russian oligarch and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich’s $100 million private film fund Kinoprime is up and running - and potentially open to English language and international projects. That was the message from the Fund’s CEO, Anton Malyshev, speaking in Cannes this week.
The Moscow-based fund, created earlier this year, invests in projects at the final stage of filming. Malyshev (who arrived in Cannes by helicopter on Wednesday) has confirmed the Fund’s very first investment, pumping $750,000 into Fairy, the new feature from Anna Melikyan starring Konstantin Khabensky. The film shot last...
Russian oligarch and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich’s $100 million private film fund Kinoprime is up and running - and potentially open to English language and international projects. That was the message from the Fund’s CEO, Anton Malyshev, speaking in Cannes this week.
The Moscow-based fund, created earlier this year, invests in projects at the final stage of filming. Malyshev (who arrived in Cannes by helicopter on Wednesday) has confirmed the Fund’s very first investment, pumping $750,000 into Fairy, the new feature from Anna Melikyan starring Konstantin Khabensky. The film shot last...
- 5/17/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The Russian government will provide funding for international exhibition of local movies in a bid to improve their overall financial performance.
Money will be provided through the cinema fund, the country's main agency in charge of administering state cash for filmmakers, and could be spent on dubbing, subtitling, marketing and advertising of homegrown movies outside Russia, Anton Malyshev, the cinema fund's executive director, was quoted as saying by business daily Vedomosti.
At this point, it is not yet clear exactly how much the cinema fund intends to spend on boosting Russian movies abroad, but the agency clearly stated that it...
Money will be provided through the cinema fund, the country's main agency in charge of administering state cash for filmmakers, and could be spent on dubbing, subtitling, marketing and advertising of homegrown movies outside Russia, Anton Malyshev, the cinema fund's executive director, was quoted as saying by business daily Vedomosti.
At this point, it is not yet clear exactly how much the cinema fund intends to spend on boosting Russian movies abroad, but the agency clearly stated that it...
- 1/12/2018
- by Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Russian State Film Fund has announced the names of the companies that will receive significant backing this year.
The Russian State Film Fund, the investment fund that was established to support the industry, has officially announced the names of the domestic film companies that will receive financial support from the state this year.
The volume of state support this year will amount to 2.8 billion rubles (Us$60 million), which is 200 million rubles less than 2015. The majority of funds will be used by the studios for the production of their films.
Anton Malyshev, managing director of the Fund, said that recipients include leading local film outfits Art Pictures (operated by Fyodor Bondarchuk [pictured] and Dmitry Rudovsky), Directorate of Film, Stv, Non-stop production, Three T and Central Partnership.
Unlike in previous years when the funds were given to producers on the condition that it would need to be returned should the films not succeed at the box office, this year the...
The Russian State Film Fund, the investment fund that was established to support the industry, has officially announced the names of the domestic film companies that will receive financial support from the state this year.
The volume of state support this year will amount to 2.8 billion rubles (Us$60 million), which is 200 million rubles less than 2015. The majority of funds will be used by the studios for the production of their films.
Anton Malyshev, managing director of the Fund, said that recipients include leading local film outfits Art Pictures (operated by Fyodor Bondarchuk [pictured] and Dmitry Rudovsky), Directorate of Film, Stv, Non-stop production, Three T and Central Partnership.
Unlike in previous years when the funds were given to producers on the condition that it would need to be returned should the films not succeed at the box office, this year the...
- 4/5/2016
- ScreenDaily
Roskino and Russian Cinema are joining forces for the first time to present companies in the Russian Pavilion at the forthcoming Marché du Film in Cannes.
In previous years, the two promotional platforms – Russian Cinema financed by the Russian Cinema Fund (Rcf) and Roskino by the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Culture – had operated from separate locations in Cannes.
And at the Berlinale’s European Film Market, Russian Cinema has had a stand in the Martin Gropius Bau, while Roskino was based on the first floor of the Marriott Hotel.
At a press conference in Moscow, Rcf executive director Anton Malyshev spoke about the reasoning behind the decision to organise a united stand and pointed to the “necessity for optimisation of expenditure” and the fact that the available resources were limited this year. Although the financing from the state had not been formally cut, the weakening of the Russian rouble vis-a-vis the Us dollar had put the...
In previous years, the two promotional platforms – Russian Cinema financed by the Russian Cinema Fund (Rcf) and Roskino by the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Culture – had operated from separate locations in Cannes.
And at the Berlinale’s European Film Market, Russian Cinema has had a stand in the Martin Gropius Bau, while Roskino was based on the first floor of the Marriott Hotel.
At a press conference in Moscow, Rcf executive director Anton Malyshev spoke about the reasoning behind the decision to organise a united stand and pointed to the “necessity for optimisation of expenditure” and the fact that the available resources were limited this year. Although the financing from the state had not been formally cut, the weakening of the Russian rouble vis-a-vis the Us dollar had put the...
- 5/1/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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