Women in the new Russian cinema

He graduated from the MGIMO School of Economics and earned a master’s degree from Columbia University in New York in the same specialty, but preferred cinema to numbers and analytics. If the circumstances were different, the industry would have lost a talented director – in 2018, Vasilisa Kuzmina made her debut in the short film “Alice”, three years later she presented the audience with the series “Infuriates”, and this summer she won the love of viewers and critics in the biographical drama “with Liza Yankovskaya ” He shot Nika. One day, his name will surely be mentioned in both international festival summaries and director lists of the best Russian films, which means it’s time to get to know him better. Camera, engine!

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“Persian Lessons”, “Execution”, “Summer”, “House Farm”, “Petrovs in the Flu” and several dozen movies and TV shows – Liza Chalenko fell in love with cinema as a child, so now she is producing some of the loudest premieres in Russia. He had a perfect match with the profession of a producer – this is evidenced by the projects and inspiration that he draws from little things, growing every year, and the results of his work, which the audience then observes. screens. She admits that she is very ambitious, and also tells how she fell in love with Hollywood stars Russian sweets “Clumsy Bear”. How did it come about? Promise to Liza Chalenko!

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At the “Industry” film school, where Sasha Hobs studied, he is well called obsessed: he graduated from editing courses, defended his diploma in directing, and works under a grant in the “Showrunner” Zhora Kryzhovnikov program. She interned on the set of the movie “Ice 2”) and also works as a teacher at the school she. He manages to combine all this with his own projects: “It Won’t Be Long”, “Time Trouble”, “Between Us” and “The Name” thanks to the short films by Sasha Hobs. And while the full measure in his filmography has yet to happen, it seems like it’s only a matter of time – so why not get to know the future star of the industry in advance?

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Olga Alikberova came to the cinema as a producer, sought herself in advertising and as an agent, but found herself only in directing – her first short films Draft and Unintentional Therapy Victoria Tolstoganova, Maxim Vitorgan, Svetlana Bondarchuk and Yulia Topolnitskaya. She’s not afraid to dream (even about the Oscars), she can cry over a good movie, and she feels right in the director’s chair – which means everything is ahead. Promise to Olga Alikberova!

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