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Camera rolls as cinema fund boosts Russian film revival N THE current economic climate, coming to MIPTV with a pot of money is like taking a cat to a dog show. But no time-wasters — and no TV series, is the message from Elena Romanova, head of the international department of the Russian Cinema Fund, set up two years ago to revive the Russian ¿lm industry. It has a broad remit, for both live-action and animation, but productions must have a theatrical release, even if funded by broadcasters. The Cinema Fund’s aim is “to bring Russians back to a national cinema and to improve national
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Russian Cinema Fund’s Elena Romanova: Russia has the locations, new studios and comparable costs
Making the most of MIP So you’ve had some great meetings this week, 17 people want you to send further details, and there’s a genuine buzz around your project. But how do you convert that into deals once you’re back home?
Larry Bass, CEO of leading Irish independent Screentime ShinAwiL, will be answering this and related questions in How To MIP It: The Follow Up!, a 10.00 session at the Producers’ Hub in the Gare Maritime today. The session is one of a series run by Entertainment Master Class, the international media academy where students learn about the business from industry experts. “Entertainment Master Class is now in its fifth year,” prog r a m me m a n age r Cla ra Brock ma n n said. “We run weeklong modules on a whole range of topics, and we have a growing community of 200 alumni from Entertainment Master Class’s Clara Brockmann 36 countries.”
production” — to bring a new vitality to the cinema of Eisenstein and Vertov, Tarkovsky and Klimov. Phase one is well under way with over 70 projects funded and 50 releases planned for this year. The Fund now aims to increase co-productions to bring in business to Russia’s revamped production facilities. Five collaborations are under way, starting with traditional partners, such as Germany and France, but the Fund is also keen to develop co-productions with countries such as the UK and China. “We have the locations, new studios and costs comparable to other eastern European countries,” Romanova said. In the pipeline is a RussianFrench-UK co-production of Pushkin’s Queen Of Spades, scripted by The King’s Speech writer David Seidler, and plans are advancing for Ralph Fiennes to star in Turgenev’s A Month In The Country.
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