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
Film concerns a family caught up in the rise of xenophobic behaviour.
Paris sales agent Loco Films has acquired international rights to Slovakian filmmaker Marko Skop’s second fiction feature Let There Be Light, about a family that gets caught up in the rise of xenophobic nationalism in Eastern Europe.
It follows Skop’s debut fiction feature Eva Nova which won the Fipresci award in Tiff in 2015 and went on to be Slovakia’s Academy Award foreign language submission.
The cast features Eva Nova actor Milan Ondrik, who plays a father attempting to protect his son from the growing influence of home guards.
Paris sales agent Loco Films has acquired international rights to Slovakian filmmaker Marko Skop’s second fiction feature Let There Be Light, about a family that gets caught up in the rise of xenophobic nationalism in Eastern Europe.
It follows Skop’s debut fiction feature Eva Nova which won the Fipresci award in Tiff in 2015 and went on to be Slovakia’s Academy Award foreign language submission.
The cast features Eva Nova actor Milan Ondrik, who plays a father attempting to protect his son from the growing influence of home guards.
- 5/17/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
While Kantemir Balagov’s “Beanpole” and Larisa Sadilova’s “Once in Trubchevsk,” both screening in Un Certain Regard, fly the flag for Russian arthouse filmmaking at the Cannes Film Festival this year, the Russian pics in the market reflect the wide diversity of genres being produced in the country.
The 27-year-old Balagov took a Fipresci prize in the same section at Cannes in 2017 for his feature debut “Closeness,” a ’90s-set story of a small-town kidnapping. With the film, Balagov, a protégé of Alexander Sokurov, established a reputation for thoughtful, atmospheric studies of complex characters facing dire struggles.
His second feature, produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, the man behind Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated films “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” is the tale of two female soldiers looking for hope and meaning in the aftermath of the WWII siege of Leningrad.
The film, being sold by Wild Bunch, offers a more nuanced look at war...
The 27-year-old Balagov took a Fipresci prize in the same section at Cannes in 2017 for his feature debut “Closeness,” a ’90s-set story of a small-town kidnapping. With the film, Balagov, a protégé of Alexander Sokurov, established a reputation for thoughtful, atmospheric studies of complex characters facing dire struggles.
His second feature, produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, the man behind Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated films “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” is the tale of two female soldiers looking for hope and meaning in the aftermath of the WWII siege of Leningrad.
The film, being sold by Wild Bunch, offers a more nuanced look at war...
- 5/14/2019
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
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