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АНИМАЦИЯ (12)
ДОКУ МЕ НТАЛЬ НЫ Й ПР ОЕ КТ (13)
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production
Extrajuridicial
series
Central Partnership
Russian film company Central Partnership wrapped up shooting on 8-episode spy thriller Extrajuridicial commissioned by
NTV channel. The project is currently in post-production period.
Filming took place in Riga and Moscow and its vicinities.
Synopsis: Spring 2001. Retired national security officer Andrey
Voronov is under investigation, being charged of kidnapping and
aiding government officials who defected country. To save his
life Andrey asks for help a man once wanted by the Russian and
foreign secret services.
Director: Murad Aliyev.
Script: Rodion Beletsky.
Cast: Igor Petrenko, Sergei
Gazarov, Sergei Burunov, Daniil
Spivakovsky.
Number of episodes: 8.
Genre: Thriller.
The Jewelers Clan
series
Front Cinema
Ukrainian production company Front Cinema starts working on
95-episode period drama The Jewelers Clan commissioned by
Ukraine TV channel. The project is currently in pre-production
period. Shooting will start this May and will take place in Lviv,
Kiev and its oblast’. The series is due to premiere in August 2015.
Director: Dmitri Goldman.
Script: Tatyana Gnedash.
Genre: Period drama.
Synopsis: This is the story about the dynasty of jewelry masters
living in Lviv.
Dmitri Goldman
Fizruk 3
series
Good Story media
Russian film company Good Story media is preparing the third
season of sitcom Fizruk for TNT channel. Shooting takes place
in Moscow. The series will premiere this fall.
Synopsis: The security director of a major Russian businessman
was fired because of his old fashioned and violent work methods, and started a job as a sports teacher (‘fizruk’ in Russian)
in High school where the daughter of his ex-boss was studying.
But, trying to impress the girl and get his old job back he ended
up behind the bars. Now he has to find the way out.
Producer: Anton Shchukin.
Director: Dmitry Gubarev.
Cast: Dmitriy Nagiev, Aleksandr
Gordon, Polina Grents, Anastasya
Panina, Vladimir Sychyov.
Genre: Sitcom.
Born to Be a Star
series
Russian prodco INK Film started shooting 10-episode autobiographical drama Born to Be a Star. The project is commissioned
by Russia-1 channel. Filming takes place in Saint Petersburg.
INK Film
Synopsis: It tells the romantic story of love between the legendary singer Edita Piekha and equally well-known composer and
orchestra director Aleksandr Bronevickyi.
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Director: Vladimir Shevelkov.
Script: Larisa Stepanova.
Cast: Marina Aleksandrova, Igor
Petrenko.
Genre: Biopic.
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production
production
№23, April 2015
production
Tomorrow
series
Ivan, Dozhd
Russian Dozhd channel in co-production with production centre
Ivan is working on new 4-episode political comedy with thriller
elements entitled Tomorrow. The producers are using the
crowdfunding platform to start filming.
Synopsis: Set in alternative Moscow in 2018 TV series show how
the opposition suddenly wins the presidential and parliamentary
elections. Now main heroes have to find a new Prime Minister,
form the Cabinet of Ministers, fight the corruption, implement
reforms in all the spheres of legislation and much else besides.
Producers: Natalya Sindeeva,
Aleksandr Bondarev.
Script: Yelena Vanina, Roman
Volobuev.
Cast: Alice Khazanova, Vladimir
Mishukov, Klavdiya Korshunova,
Mikhail Gavrilov, Alexandr
Naumov.
Genre: Political comedy.
Kazakh Eli
series
Kazakhfilm
Kazakhfilm started working on 10-episode period drama Kazakh Eli based on the first part of the trilogy The Nomads by Iliyas Esenberlin. The project is currently in pre-production period.
Shooting will start this June in Turkestan. The series premiere is
scheduled for the 16th of December 2015.
Directors: Rustem Abdrashev,
Ermek Tursunov.
Script: Timur Zhaksylykov,
Smagul Elubai.
Synopsis: the story is taking place about 550 years ago when
first Kazakh nomad tribes appeared, ruled by sultans Ganibek
and Kirey.
Violation of Rules
series
Mars
Media Entertainment
Russian film company Mars Media Entertainment is shooting
4-episode romance Violation of Rules. The project is commissioned by TV Tsentr channel. Filming takes place in Moscow
and its vicinities.
Synopsis: Due to dramatic circumstances 20-years-old woman
from the rich family became… the housemaid. But as the time
pass she is moving closer to her harsh employer – geography
teacher. Friendship starts up.
Producers: Ruben Dishdishyan,
Irina Putyatina.
Director: Leonid Mazor.
Script: Aleksey Belyakov, Leonid
Mazor.
Cast: Ingrid Olerinskaya, Sonya
Hilkevich, Yevgeniya Dmitriyeva,
Roman Polyanskiy, Igor Bochkin,
Lyubov Germanova, Aleksandr
Makogon.
Genre: Romance.
The Maternity Clinic
series
Obshestvennoe Mnenie
Russian film company Obshestvennoe Mnenie is shooting
20-episode romance The Maternity Clinic. The project is commissioned by Domashniy channel.
Synopsis: Within the four walls of the Maternity Clinic the most
guarded secrets got broken – in each episode nurses and doctors have to shape the future of their patients. Sergey Kolosov
is the most demanded gynecologist, and also charismatic and
handsome man…
Producers: Olga Danova, Mariya
Komina.
Director: Valeriy Ignatyev.
Cast: Gleb Podgodinskiy, Yana
Arshavskaya, Evgeniya Evchina,
Danila Islamov, Svetlana Gera,
Vadim Shanaurin.
Genre: Romance.
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production
production
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production
Captain Zhuravlyova
series
Panorama, Forward-Film
Russian company Panorama in co-production with ForwardFilm started shooting multi-episode detective Captain Zhuravlyova. Filming takes place in Saint Petersburg.
Synopsis: Having been victimized, young medic Varvara Zhuravlyova decides to become a cop. She quickly moves up the career
ladder and finally becomes the captain. But the higher her rank
is the more cases she gets. Once she starts to investigate the
murder of a young woman and realizes that very powerful people
are involved.
Director: Alan Dzotsiev.
Script: Ivan Ritari, Anna
Ganshina, Sergey Dolgikh.
Cast: Mariya Sinyayeva,
Konstantin Strelnikov, Vyacheslav
Malezhik, Anton Yurev, Yuri Baturin.
Genre: Detective.
Cop Saga
series
Progress, Forward-Film
Russian studio Progress in co-production with the film company Forward-Film is working on detective TV series Cop Saga.
Filming takes place in Saint Petersburg. The project is commissioned by NTV channel.
Synopsis: This is the story about four friends-investigators, who
started to work in 1990s and became the direct participants of
hard post-perestroika times.
Director: Pyotr Zabelin.
Script: Maxim Yesaulov, Sergey
Maiorov.
Cast: Dmitriy Palamarchuk,
Andrey Gorbachev, Andrei Gulnev,
Maksim Blinov, Aleksey Fedkin.
Genre: Detective.
The Second Life
series
Pro100 film
Russian production company Pro100 film is working on 4-episode romance The Second Life. The movie is commissioned by
studio Telemaster. The project is currently in pre-production with
filming due to start this May.
Producers: Anastasiya Shipulina,
Rodion Pavluchik.
Script: Uriy Tarabanchuk.
Genre: Romance.
Synopsis: Yulya and her pregnant sister Katya become the witnesses of the cash transit van robbery. The criminals killed all
the collectors but didn’t notice someone saw them. Still, Katya
got heavily injured, and died in the hospital soon after. Year later
Yulya finds out that the gang leader had been finally caught and
now she may be the only one person to put him behind the bars.
The Drunken Firm
series
Russian World Studios
Russian film company Russian World Studios in co-production with TNT channel is shooting 4-episode comedy film The
Drunken Firm.
Synopsis: Grygoriy Mikhailovich Shtuchnyi is a polyclinic watchmen and… chronic alcoholic. Several years ago he was a respectable resuscitationist-anaesthetist, and developed the
methodology to stop binge drinking. He helped others and failed
with himself. But now he will get the chance to change as Anastasiya Grigoriyevna gets the seat of the chief doctor.
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Producer: Yuriy Sapronov.
Director, script: Grigori
Konstantinopolsky.
Cast: Nikita and Mikhail Yefremov,
Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Marat
Basharov, Anna Mikhalkova.
Genre: Comedy.
production
production
№23, April 2015
production
Black Marketeering
series
Sreda
Russian production centre Sreda started working on the second
season of multi-episode drama Black Marketeering. The project is commissioned by Russian Channel One and is currently
in pre-production period. Shooting will start this summer and will
take place in Moscow.
Producer: Alexander Tsekalo.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: They are 20 years old and they are ready for everything in the name of friendship. They have dreams, but have no
choice but to work as black marketers. What is worse – they are
successful and don’t want to throw up the game.
Debtor Shanty
series
Sreda
Russian production centre Sreda is preparing multi-episode
futuristic drama Debtor Shanty inspired by the works of Soviet
and Russian poet and writer Vadim Shefner. The project is currently in pre-production period.
Producer: Alexander Tsekalo.
Director: Alexander Kott.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: XXIII century. Stepan Kortikov is getting acquainted
with Pavel Belobrysov, who is going to join him in a journey to
another planet. It appears that Pavel was born in XX century and
participated in an experiment to prolong life. And now he wants
to find the planet that mirrors Earth.
Alexander Tsekalo
Klim
series
Sreda
Russian production centre Sreda has finished shooting 8-episode detective Klim, an adaptation of British TV series Luther aired on ВВС. The project is commissioned by Russian
Channel One and is currently in post-production period.
Synopsis: Former scientist-ethologist who studied animal behavior with emphasis on the behavioral patterns that occur in
natural environments, becomes the policeman. Now as a detective he feels that has an animal instinct to hunt down the criminals.
Producers: Konstantin Ernst,
Alexander Tsekalo, Ruslan
Sorokin.
Director: Karen Oganesyan.
Script: Dmitriy Ivanov.
Cast: Konstantin Lavronenko,
Evgeniy Dobryakov, Grigory
Chaban, Anna Vardanyan, Denis
Starkov, Sergei Kudryavtsev.
Genre: Detective.
Konstantin Ernst
Life Has Just Begun
series
YarCinema
Russian film company YarCinema has wrapped up shooting on
4-episode comedy Life Has Just Begun. The project is currently in post-production period. Filming took place in Yaroslavl’ and
on Mosfilm studio. The film will premiere in winter 2015-2016.
Synopsis: A successful businesswoman is suffering from panic
attacks. Soon she has to conclude very important deal, and her
competitor sends a man, who gives himself out as a mental physician – the goal is to remove heroine from business and the city
at all.
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Producers: Sergey Bagirov, Yuri
Vaksman, Stanislav Chepaev.
Director: Stas Ivanov.
Script: Tamara Lisitskaya, Stas
Ivanov.
Cast: Anna Nosatova, Dmitry
Miller, Maksim Lagashkin,
Aleksandr Robak, Valeriya
Lanskaya, Aleksey Fedkin.
Genre: Comedy.
production
production
№23, April 2015
production
The Last of the Magikyans 5
series
YBW Group, Nebo
Russian film company YBW Group in co-production with Nebo
company started filming the fifth season of sitcom The Last of
the Magikyans 5 commissioned by CTC TV channel. Shooting
takes place in Moscow.
Synopsis: Karen Magikyan – a man who does not bend under
the changing world. He is true Armenian, and tradition for him
– above all. He has monochrome mobile phone, does not send
e-mails, and never talks on Skype. He lifelong dreams of son,
but brings up 3 daughters. In the new season Karen will face an
ordeal – Natasha will kick out him out of the house…
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Producers: Vyacheslav Murugov,
Vitaliy Shlyappo, Eduard Iloyan,
Aleksey Trotsyuk.
Cast: Hrant Tokhatyan, Anna
Ardova, Andrey Burkovskiy, Alina
Grinberg, Luiza-Gabriela Brovina.
Genre: Sitcom.
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TV Movies
Once You Step Across The Line
Mediaprofsoyuz
Russian film company Mediaprofsoyuz started working on
new TV-drama Once You Step Across The Line commissioned by Russia-1 channel. Shooting takes place in Belarus.
Synopsis: Lyudmila Kolesnikova works as a maid in a hotel,
while her son Pavel goes in for sports, studies well and wants
to make it into the university. Once several hooligans attack
and beat Lyudmila and Pavel so bad that they are taken to the
hospital. Mother recovers consciousness and finds out that her
son is under coma. It looks as if the policemen want to keep the
matter quiet, so Lyudmila buys a gun and starts to trail criminals…
Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev,
Vladimir Ignatyev.
Director: Maksim Demchenko.
Script: Peter Stepin.
Cast: Svetlana TimofeevaLetunovskaya, Michael Khmurov,
Yuliya Kudoyar, Aleksandr Gurban,
Aleksandr Zelenko.
Genre: Drama.
Our Great White Hope
TV Movies
Russian film company Paradise started filming new TV-social
drama Our Great White Hope. Shooting takes place in Gukovo and Shakhty. The movie premiere is set for the end of 2015.
Paradise
Director: Karen Gevorkyan.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: Our hero sacrificed his whole life to the mining company, but its executives try to accuse him of having caused an
accident. He can’t clear himself – neighbors become insufferable and the main character decides to leave the town.
The Third Try
TV Movies
Russian film company Russkoe has wrapped up shooting on
new TV-romance The Third Try commissioned by Russia-1
channel. The project is currently in post-production period.
Russkoe
Synopsis: Nastya and Oleg have been together for five years.
She works as a nurse, he is a musician and plays in orchestra.
Once Nastya comes home earlier than usually and finds Oleg
in bed with another woman. They bust up and she gets married the second time. But husband appears to be a very jealous
man. And after a new divorce Nastya decides it is much better
to be alone.
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Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev,
Irina Smirnova.
Director: Igor Mozzhukhin.
Script: Natalya Marfina.
Cast: Ekaterina Ryabova,
Aleksandr Astashenok, Aleksandr
Pashkov, Pyotr Barancheev.
Genre: Romance.
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The Desperate
TV Shows
Ukrainian NLO TV channel announced casting call for the new
entertaining show entitled The Desperate. Auditions will take
place in Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa.
NLO TV
In each episode 8 contestants have to pass three tests, for example, jump from the bridge, make a selfie with the policeman
or even break the law…The winner will get 8 000 UAH.
Ukrainian Super Model 2
TV Shows
Novy Channel
Ukrainian Novy Channel started shooting the second season
of the reality show Ukrainian Super Model, a local adaptation
of the Spanish format Supermodelo distributed by Endemol
Shine Group.
Host: Alla Kostromicheva.
Format: Supermodelo.
Two hundred young women aged 16-30 dream of becoming the
professional fashion model. But only 15 will be selected to compete with each other in the course of photo sessions and defiles.
The show will last for 14 weeks and only one will be left – a new
top model will become the ‘face’ of Ukrainian brands and take
part in one of the European fashion shows.
Hearts of the Three 3
TV Shows
Novy Channel
Aleksandr Pedan
Ukrainian Novy Channel started working on the third season of
the reality show Hearts of the Three, a local adaptation of Israeli Keshet Media Group format entitled Girlfri3nds. The project is produced by STB TV channel’s production house.
Host: Aleksandr Pedan.
Three single women each try to find the soulmate, with 100 single men to choose from. They share a large house for the duration of the series. The first part of the show is an audition, where
100 men introduce themselves in turn to the female singletons
trio. The girlfriends have to decide whether they would like to
see the man again. The second part of the series sees the girlfriends go on dates with the men.
The Deal 3
TV Shows
Pyatnitsa!
Russian TV channel Pyatnitsa! started working on the third season of the show The Deal. Shooting will take place in Yekaterinburg, Perm, Saint Petersburg, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod.
Host: Kseniya Sobchak.
This is the show where TV viewers play with those in the studio. The host offers contestant to answer the viewer’s question
and win some money. But to do that he has to bet some goods
bought in the supermarket. If player is wrong – viewer gets his
bet.
The Bachelor 6
TV Shows
Ukrainian STB channel has opened casting call for the sixth season of the reality show The Bachelor. Auditions will take place
in Lvov, Odessa, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Kiev. Project is a
local adaptation of the American format The Bachelor, distributed by Warner Bros. International Television.
STB
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The series revolves around a single bachelor who starts with a
pool of romantic interests (25 candidates) from whom the bachelor is expected to select a wife. During the course of the season,
the bachelor eliminates candidates with proposing marriage to his
final selection.
MasterChef 5
TV Shows
Ukrainian STB channel is preparing the fifth season of the cooking show MasterChef, a local adaptation of Endemol Shine
Group format of the same name. Auditions are underway.
STB
Format: MasterChef.
The series takes 20 amateur chefs – many of whom simply cook
as a hobby – and attempt to turn one of them into a culinary
master. Contestants are put through the paces with various challenges as they compete head-to-head to create delicious dishes
and become the best chef in Ukraine and get the money prize.
Love Online 2
TV Shows
Ukrainian ТЕТ channel has opened casting call for the second
season of the original romantic reality show Love Online.
ТЕТ
Our heroes live in different countries. They love each other, but…
only on the Internet – in social nets. They talk every day, write
hundreds of messages, but have never seen each other in a real
life. Now they will get the chance – three days to meet and get
acquainted with parents, and to realize do they suit one another.
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Back to Mother
feature films
Akan Sataev’s Project
Kazakh director Akan Sataev is preparing new feature period
drama Back to Mother. Filming takes place in Kazakhstan, Belarus and Azerbaijan, and will wrap up in June 2015.
Synopsis: The story is set in different dark periods in the history
of Kazakhstan – collectivization, jute, Great Patriotic War etc.
Main hero has gone through many hardships, but still dreams of
coming home – his mother is waiting.
Producer: Svetlana Korotenko.
Director: Akan Sataev.
Cast: Altynay Nogerbek, Berik
Aytzhanov, Aruzhan Jazilbekova.
Akan Sataev
Duelist
feature films
A.R. Films
Russian prodco A.R. Films is working on full-length period
drama Duelist. The film budgeted at 580 mln. rubles. (about
$10.75 mln.) will be produced in 3D-format. The movie premiere
is set for 2016.
Producer: Aleksandr Rodnyansky.
Director, script: Aleksei Mizgiryov.
Synopsis: Set in 1860s the film tells the story of retired officer
and professional duelist Yakovlev. He got used to duel instead of
others – he is ready to kill and to be killed. But no one knows that
actually in each fight Yakovlev tries to vindicate his own honour –
long ago he was defamed and lagged.
Aleksandr Rodnyansky
Kara-Mergen
feature films
ART Doydu
Kazakh film company ART Doydu is preparing the screen adaptation of the Turkic folk tale called Kara-Mergen. Project is
currently in pre-production period with shooting due to start this
summer. The movie premiere is set for 2016.
Producer: Marianna Skrybykina.
Director: Zhaynyk Syzdykov.
Cast: Ayan Utepbergen.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: Long ago among the Kazakh people lived a hunter
called Kara-Mergen. He wasn’t rich and had no children. KaraMergen used to hunt down red deer, gours and other animals for
living. But once he decided to go far away, there where no human has ever set foot. And when Kara-Mergen stopped for the
night he met a strange women.
The Queen of Spades
feature films
Art Pictures Studio
Russian film company Art Pictures Studio started shooting
new feature psychological thriller Queen of Spades. Production budget totals $8.5 mln.
Synopsis: Main hero – unfortunate singer Andrey Razumikhin,
who dreams of singing the part of German in The Queen of
Spades by Tchaikovsky. Once he is granted a chance – Moscow opera star Sofiya Mayer comes to his town to produce just
exactly this play. Andrey pursues her like one possessed, and
finally starts to believe that he is the real German and she is the
countess.
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Producers: Pavel Lungin, Dmitry
Rudovsky, Fyodor Bondarchuk.
Director: Pavel Lungin.
Script: Pavel Lungin, David
Seidler, Valery Pecheykin.
Cast: Kseniya Rappoport, Igor
Mikrurbanov, Vladimir Simonov,
Arkadiy Parsegov.
Genre: Psychological thriller.
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Beirut
feature films
Art Pictures
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Russian film company Art Pictures starts working on new
feature drama Beirut with the budget of 600 mln. rubles
($11.11 mln.). Project is currently in pre-production. Shooting
will take place in Morocco. Film premiere is set for 2018.
Producer: Fyodor Bondarchuk.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: It is a real story which took place in Lebanon almost
30 years ago. On September 30, 1985, a group of gunmen
seized four Soviet diplomats and embassy workers (Arkady Katkov, Valery Myrikov, Oleg Spirin, and Nikolai Svirsky) in Beirut.
During the kidnapping right outside the embassy, Katkov was
wounded in the leg. The Shiite radicals demanded that Moscow
force Damascus to suspend the Tripoli offensive and close its
embassy in Beirut. To demonstrate that they meant business,
only two days after the kidnapping, Mugniyeh murdered the
wounded Katkov by riddling him with machine gun bullets and
left his body in a Beirut rubbish dump. But after the Russian missile threat against one of the holy cities of Shiism the surviving
three hostages were finally released.
Tummy
feature films
Art Pictures
Russian film company Art Pictures started working on new
feature family comedy Tummy. Project budgeted at 225 mln.
rubles ($4.22 mln.) is currently in pre-production period. Film is
due to premiere in 2017.
Synopsis: The main hero is one of the most popular children’s
poets in the Russian language – Korney Chukovsky. His wife Maria is leaving him with his daughter Nastya just at the moment
when Korney has no money, but has a writer’s block instead –
he can’t finish the book for several months already. So Nastya
makes a wish that Tummy – the superhero from father’s book –
was alive. On the 1st of January Tummy appears at their home…
Producers: Fyodor Bondarchuk,
Dmitry Rudovsky.
Script: Oleg Roy, Vitaliy
Gogunskiy.
Cast: Michail Galustian, Mariya
Kozhevnikova, Aleksandr Revva,
Yuri Stoyanov.
Genre: Comedy.
Dmitry Rudovsky
Double Trouble
feature films
Bazelevs
Russian film company Bazelevs is finishing the production of
feature-length comedy Double Trouble, the remake of South
Korean movie Scandal Makers, which became the most successful in the local box-office. Release is set for the 28th of May
2015.
Synopsis: Roman is bachelor about 40. He runs his own show on
the radio where he gives advices whatever the situation is. Once
one of the callers, Alyona, asks him would it be right to visit her
father. And Roman answers ‘yes’ without realizing that he is this
‘father’ – twenty years ago he had a one-night stand. Moreover,
Alyona has her own child and Roman’s life seems to be turned
into living hell.
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Producer: Timur Bekmambetov.
Director, script: Edouard
Oganessian.
Cast: Daniil Belykh, Yekaterina
Varnava, Valeriya Kulikova, Daniil
Kuznets.
Genre: Comedy.
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The Best Day
feature films
Bazelevs
Timur Bekmambetov
Russian film company Bazelevs is working on feature karaokecomedy The Best Day. The project is currently in pre-production period. Shooting will start on the 18th of May and will take
place in Tver’, Voronezh and Lipetsk oblast’. Film is due to premiere on the 24th of December 2015.
Synopsis: Successful provincial Road Patrol Service officer
Petya Vasyutin has just married Olga. Being on duty he stops
drunken TV star Alina, who is looking for a house for her mother.
This casual encounter leads to a binge, and Petya proposes Alina marriage. She refuses. So, the only way out to win her heart
is to become a star too…
Producers: Timur Bekmambetov,
Zhora Kryzhovnikov, Aleksey
Kazakov, Sergey Kornikhin.
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov.
Script: Zhora Kryzhovnikov,
Aleksey Kazakov.
Cast: Dmitriy Nagiev, Yuliya
Aleksandrova, Valentina Mazunina,
Sergey Lavygin, Inna Churikova,
Elena Yakovleva.
Genre: Comedy.
Our Guys
feature films
Central Partnership
Russian film company Central Partnership started working on
new feature-length action Our Guys. Project is currently in preproduction period. Shooting will start in summer 2016. The film
will premiere on the 23th of February 2017.
Script: Ruslan Tatrintsev.
Genre: Action.
Synopsis: Present time. Russian people celebrate May holidays
when suddenly US embark on intervention – American marines
are air dropped in one of small city in the south of the country. A
group of local teenagers decide to take the fight.
Salyut 7
feature films
CTV, Lemon Films Studio
Russian film company CTV in co-production with Lemon Films
Studio is preparing new full-length space thriller Salyut 7. Project is currently in pre-production period. Shooting will start in
August with premiere planned for 2017. Production budget totals 320 mln. rubles ($5.93 mln.).
Producer: Sergei Selyanov.
Genre: Thriller.
Synopsis: 11 February 1985. An autonomous space station
Salyut 7 lost connection with Earth several months ago. But
USSR government doesn’t want to lose it and decides to send
someone there and check out what happened.
Ever Frozen
feature films
Glavkino, Lunapark
Russian film companies Glavkino and Lunapark started working on new feature fantastic thriller Ever Frozen. Shooting takes
place in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Blashikha. The film premiere is set for 2016.
Synopsis: Just the day before the crucial match one of the hockeyist breaks up with his girlfriend, as he finds out that she loves
another – someone from museum staff. To encourage their
friend other hockeyists decide to visit his ‘rival’, but they didn’t
expect there were a lot of ancient creatures in the museum vault
and not all of them were sleeping.
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Producers: Fyodor Bondarchuk,
Ilya Bachurin.
Director: Andrei Migachyov.
Cast: Ivan Shakhnazarov, Artur
Sopelnik, Vasiliy Kopeykin, Nikita
Kukushkin, Arnas Fedaravicius,
Artyom Suchkov.
Genre: Thriller.
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Viking
feature films
Direkciya Kino
Russian film company Direkciya Kino started working on feature period drama Viking. Shooting takes place in Mozhaysk,
Moscow and Crimea. Film is budgeted at 1.23 bln. rubles
($23.26 mln.) and is financed by Columbia Pictures and Federal
Fund For Social And Economic Support To National Cinematography.
Synopsis: Set in X century it tells the story of Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great, a prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and
ruler of Kievan Rus’ from 980 to 1015. Transferring his capital to
Pereyaslavets in 969, his father Sviatoslav designated Vladimir
ruler of Novgorod the Great but later gave Kiev to his legitimate
son Yaropolk. After Sviatoslav’s death in 972, a fratricidal war
erupted in 976 between Yaropolk and his younger brother Oleg,
ruler of the Drevlians. In 977 Vladimir fled to his kinsman Haakon
Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, collecting as many Norse warriors
as he could to assist him to recover Novgorod.
Producers: Leonid
Vereschtchaguine, Konstantin
Ernst, Anatoliy Maksimov.
Director: Andrei Kravchuk.
Cast: Danila Kozlovskiy, Maksim
Matveev, Kirill Pletnev, Maksim
Sukhanov, Ekaterina Vilkova.
Nut-Tree
feature films
Kazakhfilm, Kadam
Kazakh film company Kazakhfilm in co-production with artistic
group Kadam has wrapped up shooting on new feature family
film Nut-Tree. Project is currently in post-production period and
is due to be completed this May.
Director, script: Yerlan
Nurmukhambetov.
Genre: Family film.
Synopsis: This film has no main characters, still there are several storylines about one ordinary family. The whole idea is to be
more kind to others, and first of all – to your relatives.
Khovrino
feature films
Russian film company KinoEst is working on new feature horror
movie Khovrino. The project is in pre-production period, auditions are underway. Shooting will start this summer and will take
place in Moscow.
KinoEst
Producer: Evgeniy Loshak.
Director: Sergei Kuznetsov.
Genre: Horror.
Synopsis: Young woman Irina is fond of urban legends about
Khovrino hospital. Once she gathers the group of students to
explore the derelict building. They take camera to record everything, but do not even realize what will find there.
Chekhov
feature films
Mikhail MatsuvaraMashikhin’s Project
Maria Inari-Kolesnikova
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Russian director Mikhail Matsuvara-Mashikhin is working on
futuristic steampunk film entitled Chekhov. The project is currently in pre-production period. Creators are using crowdfunding platforms to fund the project.
Producer: Maria InariKolesnikova.
Director, script: Mikhail
Matsuvara-Mashikhin.
Genre: Steampunk.
Synopsis: In Saint Petersburg, an unknown genius inventor creates a miracle – a device called Affector which transforms reality into beautiful illusions. This wonder invention would have got
lost among his laboratory mess, had one millionaire lady not discovered it. She is a former movie star who lost her fame a while
ago. She sets up a new illusion industry based in Hong-Kong
Ellizeum. From here Affector sets on a triumphal and dangerous
mission of zombifying the whole world.
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Anna Karenina
feature films
Mosfilm
Russian film consortium Mosfilm in a co-production with the
All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) starts working on the adaptation of Anna Karenina by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Project is currently in
pre-production period. There will be two versions of the film –
one for TV and another one for cinema release.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov.
Script: Aleksey Buzin.
Genre: Drama.
Synopsis: It is the tragic story of a married aristocrat and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when Anna
Karenina arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother’s unbridled womanizing – something that prefigures her own
later situation, though she would experience less tolerance by
others. A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry her if she would
agree to leave her husband Karenin, a senior government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social
norms, her own insecurities, and Karenin’s indecision. Although
Vronsky and Anna go to Italy, where they can be together, they
have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned,
becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues
his social life. Despite Vronsky’s reassurances, she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, fearing loss of control.
Red Hound
feature films
Nonstop Media
Russian film company Nonstop Media with the support of the
US-based Solomon Films Production is shooting new feature war drama Red Hound, an adaptation of Viktor Krukov’s
book of the same name. Filming started in February 2015 and
will commence this May.
Synopsis: Few people know that in the beginning of the Great
Patriotic War there were special dog units to stand against the
tanks. Soldiers used to teach dogs to carry explosives to tanks,
armored vehicles and other military targets. Although the original dog training routine was to leave the bomb and retreat so that
the bomb would be detonated by the timer, this routine failed
and was replaced by an impact detonation procedure which
killed the dog in the process
Producer: Sergey Zhdanovych.
Director: William De Vital.
Script: Denis Sobolev.
Cast: Aleksandr Volkov, Igor
Savochkin, Nikolai Dobrynin,
Oksana Skoropad, Vladimir
Tolokonnikov.
Genre: War drama.
Rough Draft
feature films
Novye Lyudi
Natalya Mokritskaya
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Russian film company Novye Lyudi is working on new feature
fantasy film Rough Draft, an adaptation of Sergei Lukyanenko’s
novel of the same name. Project is currently in pre-production
period. Shooting will start in 2016 and will take place in Moscow,
Rotterdam and China. The film budget is set at $8 mln.
Producer: Natalya Mokritskaya.
Genre: Fantasy.
Synopsis: The story starts with the hero, Kirill, being ‘erased’
from daily life in present-day Moscow. Everybody forgets him
(even his parents and dog), another person lives in his apartment, all IDs and files in all offices disappear. After a while he is
phoned and invited to an old water tower – but inside is his future
home and working place. There it is revealed to him that he is
able to open doors, leading to other worlds – although at first
all but one are locked. Once opened each door becomes rigidly
connected to some world, but which one can’t be predicted. All
of the worlds have mostly similar environments and seem to be
on the planet Earth but the societies and people are different.
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The Snow Queen
feature films
Russian film company Orbita is shooting steampunk feature
movie The Snow Queen. The project pre-production took four
years. Film premiere is set for 2018.
Orbita
Producer: Dina Grin.
Director: Maksim Dyachuk.
Cast: Anastasiya Krivenko.
Genre: Steampunk.
Synopsis: A well-known story. Kai goes out with his sled to play
in the snowy market square and hitches it to a curious white
sleigh carriage, driven by the Snow Queen, who appears as a
woman in a white fur-coat. Outside the city she reveals herself to
Kai and kisses him twice: once to numb him from the cold, and
a second time to make him forget about Gerda and his family; a
third kiss would kill him. She takes Kai in her sleigh to her palace.
The people of the city conclude that Kai died in the nearby river,
but Gerda, heartbroken, goes out to look for him.
Viy 2. A Journey to China
feature films
Russian Film Group
Russian film company Russian Film Group started shooting sequel of mystery movie Viy with the tentative title Viy 2. A Journey to China. Filming will take place in Russia, Czech Republic
and China. Production budget is set at $36 mln.
Synopsis: Peter the Great gives Jonathan Green an order to
make a map of the Russian Far East. So he takes the road with
the group of Cossacks and finally ends up in… China. There he
will meet princesses, martial arts masters and even dragons.
Producer: Aleksey Petrukhin.
Directors: Oleg Stepchenko,
Dmitriy Paltsev, Aleksey Petrukhin.
Cast: Jackie Chan, Jason
Flemyng, Charles Dance, Rutger
Hauer, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Anna
Churina, Aleksey Chadov, Oleg
Taktarov.
Genre: Mystery.
Mysterious Passion
feature films
Russian Project
Russian film company Russian Project started shooting new
full-length romance Mysterious Passion, an adaptation of
Vasily Aksyonov’s novel of the same name. Filming takes place
in Lenfilm studio.
Director: Vlad Furman.
Cast: Yulia Peresild, Aleksey
Morozov, Vlad Furman, Oleg
Shtefanko, Valeriy Boyarintsev.
Genre: Romance.
Synopsis: One of the most famous Moscow filmmakers is shooting the documentary about veterans. Suddenly his wife and her
lover – poet Vakson – get caught in the lens of the camera.
Migratory Children
feature films
Russian World Studios
Russian film company Russian World Studios is preparing new
children fantasy movie entitled Migratory Children, based on
the short novel Crystal Key by Anna Chernakova and Aleksandr
Adabashyan. The project is currently in pre-production period. Shooting will start this May. The film premiere is set for
2016.
Synopsis: Little girl Marusya and her father accidentally spoil
mother’s drawing and break her watches. Mother takes offence
at them and goes to the city. It doesn’t look that she will be back
soon, so father wants to take Marusya and wander out. Girl decides to play for time – makes up a long-long fairy tale about
mother and tell it to distract father’s attention.
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Producer: Yuriy Sapronov.
Director: Anna Chernakova.
Script: Anna Chernakova,
Aleksandr Adabashyan.
Cast: Sonya Galishnikova,
Dmitriy Pevtsov, Julia Snigir,
Leonid Bichevin, Alyona Babenko.
Genre: Fantasy.
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The Librarian
feature films
WeiT Media, Art Pictures
Russian film company WeiT Media in co-production with Art
Pictures is preparing full-length city fantasy entitled The Librarian, the adaptation of Mikhail Elizarov’s novel of the same
name. Principal photography is scheduled to start this summer
with the release set for 2017.
Producer: Timur Vajnshtejn.
Script: Mikhail Elizarov.
Genre: City fantasy.
Synopsis: Main hero Aleksey is a lifelong learner and a superfluous man in his reality. Being a complete loser until now he suddenly comes to collect an uncle’s inheritance. And unexpectedly
becomes the librarian – the member of the secret organization
which searches for magic books.
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Ukrainian TV channel 1+1 has acquired rights to the feature drama The
Tribe directed by Miroslav Slaboshpitsky. The film received 40 awards
and won Cannes’ Critics Week Grand Prix. The movie has already been
released in 40 territories, including USA, UK, Japan, France, Germany,
Switzerland and Romania.
The Tribe. Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for
deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through
the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part in several robberies, he gets propelled
higher into the organization. Then he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anna, and unwillingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the tribe.
24 Doc
Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky.
Producers: Valentyn Vasyanovych,
Iya Myslitskaya, Elena
Slaboshpitskaya.
Cast: Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana
Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexander
Dsiadevich, Yaroslav Biletskiy,
Ivan Tishko, Alexander Osadchiy
, Alexander Sidelnikov, Alexander
Panivan.
Duration: 130 min.
Genre: Drama.
Russian 24 Doc channel has acquired feature-length documentary
Last Days in Vietnam from PBS International, which is the sales division of USA public broadcaster PBS. The film was nominated for an
Academy Award. Its premiere is set for the 28th of April, commemorating the 40th anniversary of this complex and harrowing finale to the
conflict in Southeast Asia.
Last Days in Vietnam. Panic gripped Saigon on the 29th of April, 1975,
as thousands of Americans and Vietnamese scrambled to designated
departure points to flee a city about to fall to Communist forces. With
the airport in North Vietnamese hands, mobs swarmed the U.S. embassy, scaling the walls in an effort to get on one of the last choppers
out. Over the course of 18 hours, 70 U.S. helicopters flew 630 rescue
missions evacuating more than 1,300 Americans and almost 6,000
Vietnamese. But in the rush to get out, the U.S. government left behind
$5 billion in military hardware and thousands of Vietnamese loyal to the
United States, many of whom had reason to fear for their lives.
Director: Rory Kennedy.
Producers: Rory Kennedy,
Keven McAlester, Mark
Samels, Patricia Bischetti.
Duration: 98 min.
Genre: Documentary.
Arthouse
Russian sales agent and producer Sam Klebanov with the support of
the US-based media holding Lorem Ipsum Corp. launched new independent distribution company Arthouse. It has already bought several
films including Daniel Burman’s El misterio de la felicidad, Ruben
Östlund’s Turist, 10.000 Km by Carlos Marques-Marcet, A Pigeon
Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence by Roy Andersson and Jafar Panahi’s Taxi.
El misterio de la felicidad. Santiago and Eugenio are more than
friends, they are life long business partners. They understand each
other without words, they care for each other, they need each other.
One day Eugenio disappears without leaving any clues behind. Santiago immediately notices his absence, but only realizes what have
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Director: Daniel Burman.
Producers: Walkiria Barbosa,
Jimena Blanco, Daniel
Burman, Diego Dubcovsky.
Cast: Fabián Arenillas,
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happened when Eugenio’s wife, Laura, lost and hopeless assures him
that Eugenio has left. Santiago and Laura begin a journey in order to
find him and end up discovering that they prefer to stay together in this
quest rather than finding out where he is.
Alejandro Awada, Sergio
Boris, Ponchy Brusse, Silvina
Escudero, Inés Estévez, María
Fiorentino, Guillermo Francella,
Jairo Garcia, Pablo Ini.
Duration: 92 min.
Genre: Dramedy.
Turist. A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves
staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath,
their dynamic has been shaken to its core, with a question mark hanging over their patriarch in particular.
Director: Ruben Östlund.
Producers: Katja Adomeit,
Philippe Bober, Erik
Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson,
Marina Perales, Yngve Sæther.
Cast: Johannes Kuhnke,
Lisa Loven Kongsli, Vincent
Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju,
Fanni Metelius, Karin
Myrenberg, Johannes
Moustos.
Duration: 120 min.
Genre: Drama.
10,000 Km. Two people in love, two apartments – one in Barcelona
and another on in Los Angeles - and the images of their past, present
and future. Can love survive 10,000 km?
Director: Carlos MarquesMarcet.
Producers: Tono Folguera,
Daniel Hammond, Sergi
Moreno.
Cast: Natalia Tena, David
Verdaguer.
Duration: 99 min.
Genre: Drama.
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. An absurdist,
surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely
from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses
on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Director: Roy Andersson.
Producers: Johan Carlsson,
Linn Kirkenær, Pernilla
Sandström, Håkon Øverås.
Cast: Holger Andersson Nisse
Vestblom Viktor Gyllenberg Lotti
Törnros Jonas Gerholm Ola
Stensson Oscar Salomonsson
Roger Olsen Likvern Charlotta
Larsson.
Duration: 101 min.
Genre: Dramedy.
Taxi. It is the documentary-like film set in a Tehran taxi that is driven
by Panahi himself. Passengers – men and women, young and old, rich
and poor – talk to him on different actual topics.
Director: Jafar Panahi.
Producer: Jafar Panahi.
Duration: 82 min.
Disney (Russia)
France-based Go-N has sold animated comedy series Zip Zip to Disney for its terrestrial TV channel in Russia. The project is oriented on
6-10-years-old children.
Zip Zip. Washington the fox, Sam the wild boar and Eugenie, Sam’s
little sister, are tired of living paw-to-mouth in the wilderness. They
crave the creature comforts only the suburbs can provide and decide
to zip into costume and disguise themselves as run-of-the-mill house
pets. So far, their secret is safe but you can count on the gang’s wild
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Director: Aurore Damant.
Duration: 52х13 min.
Genre: Animated comedy.
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animal instincts to surface at the very worst moments, driving the gags
and suspense! They’ve tamed their new household, but they’re not out
of the woods just yet.
FILM.UA Distribution
Ukrainian FILM.UA Distribution, part of FILM.UA Group, has sold a
package of titles to broadcasters in Europe and Asia. TV series The
Sniffer, The Bomber, The Werewolf Hunt and Black Sheep were
sold to Thailand. At the same time the first season of The Sniffer headed to Poland, Finland, Vietnam and Republic of Macedonia, and the
second one went to Bulgaria, France (all rights), Estonia, Lithuania and
Latvia (TV rights).
Docudrama Mystical Tales will now air in Latvia, whereas Lithuanian
broadcaster has acquired new seasons of the show. Earlier FILM.UA
Distribution has sold format Mystical Tales to Nova TV channel in Bulgaria while Belgian distributor Crazy Cow has picked up rights to Mystical Tales format for the territory of Benelux, Netherlands, Germany,
Austria, Scandinavia and French-speaking Switzerland.
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The Sniffer. They call him The Sniffer. He’s the proud owner of an extraordinarily acute sense of smell. He can detect things about you that
you desperately want to conceal. He’ll find that needle in the haystack.
Don’t ever doubt his extraordinary skills! But the truth is that his sense
of smell is as much a curse as it is a gift. This guy can solve a mystery
by having a single sniff around but what happens when all these myriads of smells force their way into his private life? Let’s just put it this
way – he’s not exactly a happy camper.
Director: Artem Litvinenko.
Producers: Victor Mirsky,
Andrey Rizvanyuk.
Script: Artem Litvinenko,
Andrey Babik.
Cast: Kirill Kyaro, Ivan
Oganesyan, Maria
Anikanova, Agne Grudite,
Sergei Yushkevich, Nikolay
Chindaykin, Nina Gogaeva.
Duration: 52 min.
Genre: Detective.
The Bomber. During World War II, a soviet aircraft crashes on Nazioccupied territory. But the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved 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.
Director: Vitaliy Vorobyov.
Maxim Ukhanov, Max Osadchiy.
Script: Arkadiy Tigay.
Cast: Nikita Efremov, Ekaterina
Astakhova, Nina Usatova,
Victoriya Tolstoganova, Boris
Karmozin, Timofey Tribuncev,
Egor Barinob, Vladislav Abashin.
Duration: 8x52 min. or 180 min.
Genre: War drama.
The Werewolf Hunt. WW2. Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The Soviet High
Command receives intel according to which the Nazi’s are planning
on setting up a command center called Werewolf somewhere on the
territory of Ukraine. This Werewolf is of exceptional strategic importance. A Soviet reconnaissance unit, led by Major Sedov, is deployed
in the area and their assignment is to deliver information concerning
the location of the object and the enemy’s military strength. But it is
not until the group is actually lodged at the lair of the enemy that they
find out the actual aim pursued by the Soviet High Command. This was
nothing but a suicide mission from the start. Major Sedov realizes that
his people are but pawns in a bigger game. The pawns, however, do
sometimes become queens.
Director: Evgeny Mitrofanov.
Maxim Asadchy, Sergey
Nedzelsky.
Cast: Vladimir Litvinov,
Boris Galkin, Vyacheslav
Razbegajev, Pavel Trubiner,
Michail Yefremov, Yevgeniya
Glady, Vladimir Goryansky.
Duration: 4x52 min. or 110
min.
Genre: War drama.
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Black Sheep. The story is set during the World War II. Seven prisoners manage to escape from the penitentiary and hide in a small village
forsaken of God and men. Soon after they respire, they face a new
hardship — a German subversive group appears near the village. And
as the fate decree, the former ‘enemies’ of the Motherland turn into its
fierce defenders. War mutilates lives of millions of people, but sometimes it is the war that makes even the most thorough scoundrel in the
world to remember that he is also a MAN.
Mystical Tales. Almost everyone has experienced something that
could be described as supernatural. This is a collection of the most
fascinating mystical stories as told by ordinary people. One is a haunting tale of three boys who come across some old jewelry in an uncovered grave at a cemetery. In the days that follow, two of the boys die
under mysterious circumstances and the third is left paralyzed. Or
here’s a story about a girl who sold her wedding dress. Suddenly her
life turns upside down as she struggles to stay afloat. Eventually the
girl finds that the new owner of the dress died while wearing it. Mere
coincidence or is there more to it? Theories explaining these phenomena fall into two basic categories: scientific explanations (medical,
physiological and psychological) and supernatural explanations (religious, spiritual). The series offers both.
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Director: Serhey Chekalov.
Producers: Victor Mirsky, Sergey
Antonov, Andrey Rizvanyuk.
Script: Igor Shvetsov.
Cast: Kiril Rubtsov, Victor
Solovyev, Mikhail Tarabukin,
Andrey Frolov, Alexey Longin,
Mukhtar Gusengadzhiyev, Aleksey
Dmitriyev.
Duration: 4x50 min. or 110 min.
Genre: War drama.
Host: Pavel Kostitsyn.
Duration: 44 min.
Genre: Docudrama.
Intra Communications
Russian company Intra Communications has signed a deal with the
US-based Big Media concerning the distribution rights on the territory
of Russia and the CIS to the documentary programmes My Animal
Friends. Underwater Mission and Super Senses.
My Animal Friends. Underwater Mission. 26 amazing underwater
stories for kids hosted and narrated by Sara & Maxi and their inseparable friendly submarine, Emma “The Sea Turtle”. Young viewers (together with their parents) will be drawn into these awesome adventures at sea, in which stunning images reveal hidden worlds of action
and beauty. We meet all favourite sea creatures and explore their watery homes: playful dolphins, mysterious sharks, graceful sea turtles,
waddling penguins and dozens of others; we visit coral reefs, kelp forests and other extraordinary underwater worlds.
Genre: Documentary for kids.
Super Senses. Have you ever wondered why some animals have
such crazy looking sense organs? Why do snakes have a split tongue?
Why do elephants have such huge ears? Why do some bats have different looking ears and noses? Why do moths have antennae that
look like feathers? Every feature has a special purpose that has
evolved to ensure the survival of the animal. Just like us, animals rely on
their senses to communicate with each other, to find food and to stay
safe.
Genre: Documentary.
KIT
Ukrainian distribution company KiT has added to its catalogue Latin American feature erotic film Latin Lover and Aussie docuseries
Quirky Science.
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Latin Lover. The plot generally revolves around the character Rafael Carballo, the director of the “Latin Lover” novela. Rafael is portrayed as an attractive man whom women often find difficult to resist. He is often equally incapable of declining the sexual advances
of the scheming, seductive women involved in the novela and the
production company behind it.
Director: Manolo Castillo.
Cast: Riccardo Dalmacci, Andrea
Montenegro, Juan Carlos Salazar,
Paola Martínez, Fernando Gaviria,
Natalia Villaveces, Mónica
Domínguez, Milene Vásquez.
Genre: Erotic.
Quirky Science. For most, science is about discoveries in labs.
But do we ever think or imagine that to get to where we are today,
science sometimes has taken very quirky directions? This is a series that explores just exactly where science went awry and led to
new discoveries and inventions. You’ll be amazed at how common
household items were actually invented!
Genre: Documentary.
MK-Distribution
Ukrainian company MK-Distribution has licensed TV rights on
cooking show FunFood and traveling docu-series Seasons and
World in Pictures to Spanish MarTV.
Fun Food is an extraordinary culinary show for all those who want
to make something tasty, having spent thus a minimum of time and
efforts.
Relaxing music and colorful shots turn a cooking into interesting
and enjoyable process. Prepare beautiful and delicious dishes with
Food Fun! Here you find video recipes that make your breakfasts,
snacks, lunches and dinners turn into a real FUN!
Genre: Cooking entertainment.
Seasons. The show invites you into a fascinating journey into the
wonderful world of nature. Admire the spring flowering plants, a
variety of summer landscapes, autumn leaf fall and majesty of winter. Perhaps these experiences will help you to plan new routes for
outdoor recreation!
Genre: Traveling.
World in Pictures. In this show you’ll find out a brief summary
certain country and / or city – its name, currency, language, population, area. Also the viewer can learn about the local landmarks
which are also represented in the form of a small informational and
historical reference. Stunning and vivid photographs and interactive map with pedestrian and transport routes from one showplace
to another make your trip unforgettable.
Genre: Traveling.
NCircle Entertainment
US-based company NCircle Entertainment has picked up VoD
and home video rights to Russian CG-animated series Alisa
Knows What to Do! for the territory of the North America. The
project is produced by Russian prodcos Bazelevs, Riki Group and
Animation Studio Moskva. The second season of the series premiered on CTC in February 2015.
Alisa Knows What to Do! Based on Kir Bulychev’s popular scifi book series Alice: The Girl from Earth, Alisa Knows What to Do!
follows the adventures of 12-year-old Alisa Selezniova and her
friends in the year 2093.
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Producers: Timur Bekmambetov,
Ilya Popov, Elena Malenkina.
Genre: Animated.
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Parakeet Film
Ukrainian distributor Parakeet Film has acquired theatrical rights
on US musical dramedy entitled The Last Five Years.
The Last Five Years. A struggling actress Katie and her novelist lover Jamie each illustrate the struggle and deconstruction of
their love affair.
Director: Richard LaGravenese.
Producers: Janet Brenner, Kurt
Deutsch, Richard LaGravenese.
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Jeremy
Jordan, Tamara Mintz, Cassandra
Inman, Kate Meltzer, Emma Meltzer,
Bettina Bresnan, Charly Bivona,
Alex Stebbins, Lily LaGravenese.
Duration: 94 min.
Genre: Dramedy.
Pixel
Ukrainian Pixel channel has acquired a package of animation
content from Paris-based distributor Cyber Group Studios. The
deal includes among the others such projects as Mademoiselle
Zazie, Mia, Animalia, Adam’s Bakery, Raju the Rickshaw and
Grenadine & Peppermint.
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Mademoiselle Zazie. Mademoiselle Zazie is a series about
friendship: that of Zazie and Max, the inseparable best friends,
as well as that of the whole tribe: Pedro, Tariq, Cindy and Abigail!
They are 7 year-old, live by the seaside and have so much fun together! The whole bunch takes us into their games, their private
jokes and their daily adventures. They actually start to discover
the world of grown-ups, and want to understand it. Friends will
try to do so… but will shake it up to make it all their own! They will
solve problems in a way we, as grown-ups, would never expect
them to!
Duration: 7 min.
Genre: Animated.
Mia. Mia is a six year old mouse who lives in the depths of a large
house, with her Granny Mimi, her friends and neighbours. Inquisitive, daring and fearless, Mia gets excited by everything and anything: she wants to see, try and experience it all! And it’s understandable: she’s six now - the ideal age to go and discover the
world around her... And start understanding she’s not the center
of it all…
Duration: 11 min.
Genre: Animated.
Animalia. Join Zoe and Alex on a thrilling adventure, as they are
swept from their local library into Animalia – a unique world of talking animals! Unusual events have undermined the civilization of
Animalia, and Zoe and Alex, together with their new friends, use
their wits and imagination to help solve the mysteries and bring
harmony back to the land.
Duration: 24 min.
Genre: Animated.
Adam’s Bakery. Adam and his dinosaur friends live in a beautiful
and colorful forest town: Shangri-la. And right in the middle of this
forest is the country’s most popular bakery: Adam’s Bakery. Then
who is Adam? He is the very talented apprentice of Miranda, the
baker master. Since the master had to leave, Adam has become
the holder of this Bakery together with the lovely Candy Sisters.
They share so much fun preparing some very special recipes with
the Magic Baking Machine.
Duration: 13 min.
Genre: Animated.
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Raju the Rickshaw. Finpur is an imaginative, wholesome and ecofriendly place, full of color and fun. It is unique in its ‘Indianness’
and universal in its appeal. Here we meet Raju, his friends Tina and
Charlie and the whole Funpur gang a motley collection of trucks
and taxis, buses and bikes, boys and girls. Lively characters of Funpur learn to take responsability for ones actions, to help a friend in
need, work as a team, to spell or simply have fun.
Duration: 7 min.
Genre: Animated.
Grenadine & Peppermint. Grenadine is a little Inuit girl who is curious, energetic and who is always up to mischief. She loves adventures: dangerous missions, strange investigations, commando
operations that she gets into with her friend Peppermint, a usually
placid penguin whom she thinks has the right stuff to make a super
hero. Although he is rather lethargic, Peppermint accepts to play
the super hero role so he can keep Grenadine’s esteem.
Duration: 7 min.
Genre: Animated.
Russian Report
Russian film company Russian Report has acquired Japanese
feature-length horror film Kamisama no iu tôri for the territory of
Russia.
Kamisama no iu tôri. Shun Takahata is a high school teen bored
with his humdrum life. But one day, a mysterious Daruma doll (a
traditional Japanese votive figure that represents Bodhidharma,
the first Zen patriarch) suddenly appears in class and announces
the beginning of a game that will put their lives on the line. After the
Daruma doll comes a beckoning cat, a Kokeshi doll, a polar bear,
and a Matryoshka doll... One after another, these strange manifestations of toys introduce games that the students must succeed
in winning. If they don’t, they die an instant death. Is this really a
game? If so, what is it for? Who are “God’s children”? And what
awaits Shun and his classmates who survive these games?
Director: Takashi Miike.
Producers: Minami Ichikawa, Akihiro
Yamauchi, Yûsuke Ishiguro, Shigeji
Maeda.
Cast: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Rirî Furankî,
Atsuko Maeda, Shôta Sometani, Sôta
Fukushi, Jingi Irie, Hirona Yamazaki,
Mio Yûki.
Duration: 117 min.
Genre: Horror.
Studio U7
Russian distributor Studio U7 has added to its catalogue Canada-produced animated TV series YOUniverse nominated for the
Grand Prix of Kidscreen awards 2014. Also Studio U7 has acquired
rights to British docuseries Lodging With Lions for the territory of
Russia, CIS countries and the Baltic states.
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Lodging With Lions. It is a fast-paced reality series that follows
volunteers from all over the world as they descend on Antelope
Park, Zimbabwe for the ultimate lion experience. We follow them
in their daily duties, including taking the lions for daily walks and
hunts, preparing the meat and vitamins for the cubs and assisting
in research tasks.
Genre: Documentary.
YOUniverse. Targeted at children from 2 to 6 years old YOUniverse
is a preschool, interstitial series that explores space and the universe through the eye and imagination of children. If you had your
own planet what would it look like? Would it be green, purple or
blue? Would it be filled with huge furry buildings or covered in gumdrop trees? Are the people small, tall or there at all? YOUniverse is a
short interstitial illustrating how children see the universe and how
they would describe their dream planets. Each episode is a mix of
creativity and fun with a little science sprinkled on top. It’s your universe, how do YOU see it?
Genre: Animated.
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Distribution and production company Gaumont Animation, division of the France-based studio Gaumont, has licensed the new
version of animated series Calimero to the Russian kids channel TiJi. Being the remake of original 1963 TV series Calimero is
produced by French Gaumont Animation and Calidra with Italian
Studio Campedelli and Japanese TV Tokyo and Kodansha.
Calimero. With his big heart, three eager companions and an
old mill teeming with incredible inventions, Calimero sets off on
wild adventures to put right all those things in life that are just not
fair. Between school, secret meetings in their workshop, our four
friends have a whale of a time! They invite children of all ages to
join them on their explosive adventures and take a fresh look at
the world around them with an open heart.
Director: William Renaud.
Genre: Animated.
Volga Film
UK-based all3media International company has signed new
broadcast agreements for multi-episode detective drama Brokenwood Mysteries including one with Volga Film for the territories of Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia.
Brokenwood Mysteries. Each telefeature in the series is a
standalone story which sees the show’s two lead police officers
trying to solve a murder case.
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Directors: Mike Smith, Joshua
Frizzell, Michael Hurst.
Producers: Chris Bailey, John
Barnett, Kelly Martin.
Cast: Neill Rea, Fern Sutherland,
Pana Hema Taylor, Nic Sampson,
Christina Ionda, Colin Moy, Andi
Crown, Miriama McDowell, Marc
Pritchard, Chris Sherwood.
Duration: 8x120 min.
Genre: Detective drama.
Cinema releases overview
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Cinema releases overview
UKRAINIAN THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET OVERVIEW
(JANUARY 1, 2015 – APRIL 19, 2015)
Theatrical releases of 99 films took place in Ukraine starting from January 1, 2015. Information on box-office of 57 films was disclosed
by local distributors. The gross box-office of these films totaled $18.16 million. About 7.18 million tickets were sold for these 57 titles.
TOP-20 releases collected $15.74 million. Cinema goers bought near 6.15 million tickets to watch the films you see in the table below.
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Movie
Distributor
Premier Date
Premier Box-office, $
Total Box-office
(01.01 - 19.04.2015), $
Tickets Sold
(01.01 - 19.04.2015)
1
Furious 7
B&H
02.04.2015
942 701
1 794 537
772 267
2
8 New Dates / 8 Novykh Svidaniy (Rus)
UFD
01.01.2015
821 724
1 634 576
525 147
3
The Seventh Son
B&H
01.01.2015
695 401
1 531 702
424 422
4
Fifty Shades of Grey
B&H
12.02.2015
860 705
1 491 615
751 412
5
Exodus: Gods and Kings
UFD
01.01.2015
519 211
1 268 531
317 265
6
Paddington
VLG
22.01.2015
437 673
959 763
368 310
7
Three Bogatyrs. The Cavalry / Tri Bogatyria. Hod Koniom (Rus)
GK
01.01.2015
398 731
930 463
377 374
8
Night At The Museum: Secret Of The
Tomb
UFD
08.01.2015
340 201
713 978
242 738
9
Kingsman: The Secret Service
324 093
UFD
12.02.2015
358 727
677 386
10 Cinderella
B&H
12.03.2015
472 653
669 855
311 487
11 Chappie
B&H
12.03.2015
260 748
590 063
258 249
12 Battle for Sevastopol / Nezlamna (Ukr)
UFD
02.04.2015
199 058
518 140
235 838
13 Home
UFD
19.03.2015
214 001
495 964
244 677
B&H
05.02.2015
197 272
493 419
264 700
15 Insurgent
MMD
19.03.2015
170 455
413 292
176 353
16 Blackhat
B&H
15.01.2015
200 648
367 704
122 053
Tinker Bell and The Legend of the
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Never Beast
B&H
01.01.2015
123 215
343 411
127 809
18 The Boy Next Door
B&H
22.01.2015
145 128
335 867
117 114
19 John Wick
UFD
15.01.2015
n/a 308 942
106 308
B&H
16.04.2015
202 777
14
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out
of Water
20 Ex Machina
202 777
78 562
TOTAL ТОP-10:
11 672 406
4 414 515
TOTAL ТОP-20:
15 741 985
6 146 178
Source: Ukrainian Film Distribution
Distributors:
B&H – B&H Distribution
GK – Galeon Kino
MMD – Multi Media Distribution
UFD – Ukrainian Film Distribution
VLG – Volga Ukraine
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The prospects of
Ukrainian formats
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A significant event for Ukrainian TV industry - conference and screening FORMAT SHOW Spring Edition
was held on the 27th of March in Kiev. Representatives of TV channels and prodcos from Ukraine and
abroad gathered together at the largest Ukrainian private film studio FILM.UA to share their experience
and discuss the current situation on TV content production market, listen to the opinions of their foreign
colleagues as well as to see the latest titles of international formats and learn trends of the industry.
During the opening panel discussion TV Production in Ukraine: Challenges, Features, Opportunities moderated by Ed Waller (C21 Media editorial director), Ukrainian TV market specialists (Olga Zakharova, Director of Strategic Marketing at Media Group Ukraine; Viktoria Liezina-Masliana, Producer of the production
department of Ukrainian holding 1+1 Media; Dmitriy Kitsay, Head of Creative department of STB channel;
Igor Storchak, Head of FILM.UA Distribution; Aleksey Goncharenko, Head of Friends Production) talked
about trends of local and international format industry. The cornerstone of the discussion was the question whether Ukraine is able to change its status of one of Europe’s largest importers of TV formats into a
significant exporter of its own content.
The first word on the rights of the moderator took Ed Waller, who noted that at the present time there has
been some decline in the volume of new television formats acquisitions both in Central and Eastern Europe
and in the whole world. Ukraine is not an exception. Furthermore inner economic and political problems
caused large scale depreciation of the national currency. It influenced a lot the financial strength of Ukrainian TV channels that were forced to diminish their programming budgets and dramatically cut the quantity
of content acquisitions (including non-scripted TV-formats licenses).
General producer of the production department of Ukrainian holding 1+1 Media Viktoria Liezina-Masliana
insisted that the best strategy for Ukrainian TV channels and production companies now is to start developing their own formats. This is the line which in fact 1+1 Media started with their own experience.
The head of creative department of STB channel Dmitriy Kitsay sustained this point of view and said that
Ukrainian channels gained good experience from the last five year period of adaptation of TV formats and
now understand the format business peculiarities and are ready to create the new ones by themselves.
In turn, Igor Storchak, the head of FILM.UA Distribution, said that Ukraine has already got the experience of selling its local formats. Ukrainian emerging format market has already gained an ambitious goal:
for the first time the local format series (The Sniffer, produced by FILM.UA) had been sold to European
broadcaster TF1 (France) and its production has already launched, as well as Mystical Tales (FILM.UA’s
docudrama) was also bought to Hungary and Bulgaria as a format. Storchak also mentioned the successful deals on Star Media`s format Go Dance and the international success of Crack Them Up produced
by Studio Kvartal 95. Moreover we should not also forget the reality format Daddy’s House (Ukr. Hata na
Tata) that was sold to Poland, and original format of the most successful Ukrainian TV show Take the Mike
(Ukr. Karaoke na Maidani) was picked up for international distribution by Eccho Rights after UA Formats
catalogue was presented at KIEV MEDIA WEEK in 2014. Ukrainian original formats have been also sold to
Russia and other countries of the region.
At the same time, according to Storchak, there are two main trends in Ukrainian TV business – decrease in
demand for foreign formats and reduction of budget for foreign content acquisitions in favor of developing
local stories.
Following the opening panel discussion Anne Kirsipuu, FremantleMedia format sales director CIS & Baltic
States, presented Global Format Industry Trends Report to FORMAT SHOW Spring Edition attendees. One
of the most remarkable trends of 2014 was the decrease of the quantity of the so-called ‘travelling’ nonscripted formats, i.e. the whole number of the formats, which had been sold for adaptation to at least two
new territories. The sales peaked in 2011 when there were 119 travelling formats, comparing with the 88
in 2014 (just as in 2008-2009).
Igor Storchak
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Switching the focus of discussion back to Ukraine, Media Resources Management analytics counted that
totally 141 new non-scripted formats have been acquired and adapted during last 10 years by 6 major
Ukrainian TV channels (Inter, STB, 1+1, Ukraine, ICTV and Novy Channel). The notable increase in the
quantity of formats’ acquisition was observed in 2006, the peak of format adaptations was reached in
2011, followed by the recession period.
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International formats premiere adaptations in Ukraine, 2005-2014
45 41 40 35 30 25 23 21 17 20 15 10 6 5 2006 2007 3 5 0 11 10 2005 4 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Source: Media Resources Management
The recession period is caused by the self-identification of Ukrainian TV channels — they finally defined
their line-ups structures and found demands of their target audience, so many purchased formats were
prolonged for further seasons as well as broadcasters started experimenting with their own original TV
shows creation.
Game-shows, reality and talent-shows are among the most frequent adapted non-scripted formats by
TOP-6 Ukrainian TV channels.
Genres of Format adaptations in Ukraine, 2005-2014
12 6 32 Reality 6 Talant Game 14 Entertaining Da6ng 22 16 Factual Cooking Others 33 Source: Media Resources Management
International format hits lead the TOP-10 of the most successful shows of Ukrainian TV: The Voice, XFactor, Got Talent, Wife Swap, The Bachelor, etc. These shows were aired with 5 and more seasons, performing the highest TV ratings.
Ukrainian Television industry faced the new challenge: the audience became more demanding, being offered the whole variety of new formats simultaneously. Format adaptations decreased their life period to
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2-3 seasons on air and were closed, being considered unsuccessful. To keep the viewers involved, TV
channels are challenged to surprise them with new content of exceptional quality. Ukrainian adaptations
of The Voice and X-Factor are acknowledged as the most successful ones in the world.
But Ukrainian television is well-known not just for international formats’ adaptations. The original Ukrainian formats have been launched successfully and aired for number of seasons in a competitive environment. Of course, any show has to be unique and extra-creative to be aired by Ukrainian TV channel in the
present market context. So, if original ideas lived that long - they are worth to be discovered by the world.
This exact idea became the fundamental reason for UA Formats catalogue appearance. Moreover, despite
several cases of successful formats sales, format distribution market in Ukraine has not been developed.
There are at list 20 original formats created in Ukraine, which have been mostly sold to post-Soviet territories and have never been presented to the international media market. Ukrainian formats have never been
collected, organized and presented to international audience at global market level before.
Iryna Kostyuk (producer, FILM.UA Group) was the initiator of UA Formats catalogue creation. The largest
players of the Ukrainian media market supported this idea and for the first time in Ukrainian history their
shows had been united ‘under one roof’, in the first united catalogue of the most successful Ukrainian
formats.
Fresh ideas
The important part of FORMAT SHOW Spring Edition conference was the final round of SMALL WORLD.
BIG IDEAS contest. Its Judging panel, consisting of Ukrainian and international TV industry experts, have
selected five Finalists. The TOP 5 was defined among more than 70 submitted ideas of non-scripted entertainment TV formats. The Judging panel choice was made according to the contest main selection
criteria: innovation, creativity/originality, potential to develop multiple series, potential to travel around the
world as a format, potential to become cross-media and multiplatform format.
SMALL WORLD. BIG IDEAS Finalist were:
Tasty Adventures (by Aleks Komarovskii, Ukraine). The show host arrives in one of the grocery supermarkets and chooses two characters of the show from supermarket visitors, who are going to celebrate
something and have a dinner or party. The host proposes them to spend only 2 hours not investing a cent
to get an opportunity to win the grand prize – a delicious menu for the celebration and drinks for 20 persons. The sponsor’s cookery (supermarket chain) will prepare all the dishes from the characters’ menu,
besides the winner will get several more valuable prizes for their kitchen. To that end, they are to get into
5 specific Tasty Adventures. The characters will have to learn how to quickly sell the goods to passers-by,
taste things with their eyes closed, prepare meals within a limited time, look for alcoholic beverages in cars
on parking etc.
The Maze (by Olena Sibiriakova, Ukraine). It is a global quest in a huge Transformer Maze with 16 teams
involved. Each maze has a Sacred Room. Will a team of players be able to reach it in due time? From now
on the victory depends on their dexterity, intuition and TV viewers. Each episode consists of a competition
between two teams (4 players in each) and two consecutive peculiar quest routes. Each route consists of
three rooms styled in a unique way, which have 3 doors, but only one of them will show the team the right
way. Together with TV players the teams undergo tests, solve riddles hidden in the room and guess which
one of 3 doors is the right one. With every next room, tests become more and more difficult…
Holiday Exchange (by Nadezhda Dyagileva and Victoria El-Muallya, Russia). Two persons from different
countries and cities exchange their houses for the time of holidays. The first character is local, he/she is
from the country where the program is broadcast. The second one is a foreigner. Over two days they live
each other’s lives: meet friends and relatives of the one, whose apartment is used, learn their habits and
try favorite leisure activities. And, for sure, they do a lot of sightseeing. Each new episode involves new
characters and new cities.
Marriage 3.0 (by Yana Chernukha, Russia). By drawing lots three couples that are going to get married
receive one of the three budgets: small, mid-sized and big. During a week they should invent and organize
a unique wedding party, staying within the budget, and at the final show in the studio to present in the form
of a storyline what they have managed to do. The programme psychologist helps the couples understand
their relations and solve conflict situations. The comments of relatives and friends help to get known better
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the characters. At the second stage the same couples raffle 3 budgets and this time they make renovation
in their bedrooms. The result of interior makeover in the form of a storyline they also present to the audience in the studio, that assesses the couples based on three criteria: idea, implementation and relations.
The points of two stages are summed up. The couple that wins receives a wedding journey as a prize.
SMALL WORLD.
BIG Ideas winners
Star Races (by Pavel Peleshok and Nana Suhanova, Ukraine). The participants of this show are celebrities, who step out to a racing track. They fight for a prize and find out who is in fact the star in driving among
them. They learn how to drive professionally, overcome obstacles and make fresh gains – they become
car racers. In the course of 10 episodes the contestants should learn car racing nuances from scratch.
6 contestants take part in the show: 3 males and 3 females. All contestants are trained by their coaches,
who are indisputable car racing professionals. The participants are not eliminated after each round. All
contestants collect points in every episode race, passing through all stages. This makes it possible for a
team to get better results in the next episode and catch up with a competitor.
It stands to mention that celebrity reality format Star Races (working title) became the winner of SMALL
WORLD. BIG IDEAS contest, and its creators were granted a very special prize from the project partners
– MIPTV (participants’ badges to attend MIPTV and MIPFormats 2015) and Small World IFT (worldwide
distribution of the winning format, presenting it at all major television markets globally).
Taking into consideration all the aforesaid as well as challenging circumstances that Ukrainian TV business is currently facing with, it’s quite obvious that Ukrainian television and content markets are in the eve
of great changes. And who knows – quite possible that the boost of local creativity and its international
recognition are around the corner.
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Sandugash
Rakhimzhanova:
Considering the Viewing
Ratings the Best
Performing Is KazakhProduced and KazakhSpeaking Content
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This year Kazakh National Television News Agency ‘Khabar’ celebrated its 20th anniversary. In an exclusive interview to CIS: Content Report its programming director Sandugash Rakhimzhanova told about
the Khabar achievements, local production volume increase, acquired content value formation and the
geography of broadcasted programs.
How would you characterize the present state of Kazakhstan TV market (not its technical infrastructure or advertising aspect, but rather in the context of content)?
Considering the viewing ratings the best performing is Kazakh-produced and Kazakh-speaking content.
Locally produced programs are the most-searched – people love talk shows devoted to real problems and
characters, who speak the same language with the audience. As for musical-entertaining shows viewers
prefer Kazakh stars instead of those from Russia or abroad. And I think that this trend will be one of the
dominants in future. If you recall the Russian experience, than the content replacement from the imported
to locally-produced one is unavoidable. Within the last 2-3 years we have replaced the most of foreign
line-up. Actually, more than 80% of content is locally-produced now – TV series, factual, entertaining and
news programs.
What content is the most popular with Kazakh viewer? What genre preferences? And which programs prevail on Khabar? How does your broadcasting schedule is formed?
You won’t be surprised, obviously, if I say that the viewer has become more selective – if he/she doesn’t
like some program then quickly switches it. The person in front of the screen definitely understands the
content, chooses the suitable time, orients on the picture quality.
The target audience of our channel is adults aged 30+, coupled, socially active. Men prefer news programs and feature films, women – TV series, concerts, talk shows. But everyone likes music-entertaining
and comic genre content. Of course, if there is a demand for entertaining programs, we put them in prime.
The line-up is horizontal on working days and vertical on the weekends.
Who is the one that conducts the ‘genre policy’? Who should approve the content to put it on air?
As long as Khabar is the government-owned channel, we have to work on the public communications
policy. Still, the viewer is in the first place and we offer content of different genres. General producer and
programming director are responsible for TV program launch, and we base our conclusions on research
data and the sixth sense. It refers to everything – the program concept, in-house projects, content licensing etc. All projects are reviewed by the creative committee.
Do you produce original programs by yourself or commission them from the contractors? What
prodcos do you work with?
For several years we’ve worked with different production companies, and most programs are made by the
third parties. But news programs are too important for the channel, so we produce them in-house. They
take about 6 hours of daily broadcasting time.
Tell us about your production base – stages, shooting equipment, dubbing and editing studios…
Sandugash
Rakhimzhanova
Several years ago Khabar started broadcasting from Kazmedia Center – modern business and technological complex for the full cycle of works in the sphere of digital media. Khabar takes on lease its stages
and editing rooms to produce news programs and talk shows. At the same time the channel has its own
dub studios, as well as filming and lightning equipment.
Talking about your in-house produced programs, what does prevail – foreign formats adaptations or original ideas?
They are mostly original shows because you have to take into account the market conditions – viewers’
mentality, their preferences. But we do cooperate with foreign format distributors – some formats we have
successfully launched already, and soon we will make another big hit.
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otherwise there will be a risk of failing in both areas.
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I can’t provide with data on other channels, but Khabar bought The Magnificent Century and put it in prime
for about $4 000 for an episode. Russian TV series for off prime are almost $2 500 for an episode and the
Korean – $800. It depends on many factors, of course, – year of production, rights exclusivity etc.
Are foreign distributors interested in Kazakh TV products?
We are not working actively in this sphere yet, but Khabar has sold several TV series abroad already – to
Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
What projects are you working on right now?
Khabar has just started the spring season with the new line-up of entertaining programs – music and
comedy shows. New Kazakh-language docuseries, one show and several educational programs air on
working days. There will be more than 100 new episodes of TV series this year.
What about the plans for future?
Sandugash
Rakhimzhanova
We are trying to become better, more interesting and reachable. As we celebrate the jubilee, Khabar viewers will make more discoveries.
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