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Russian Film Week
The ninth annual Russian Film Week will take place in New York City from November 13- 22, 2009. Events will be held in different parts of the City, from South Brooklyn to Upper Manhattan, and will feature award-winning Russian films as well as those never before seen on the silver screen in the US. This year the event is organized by the leading New York based agency Global Advertising Strategies, in collaboration with the television studio “Clotho-Plus” and OS Enterprises, Inc.
This year, in addition to the film screenings and formal receptions, the Film Week will include a series of special open panel and round table discussions with some of the leading Russian and American cinematographers along with professors and students from the top film schools in the United States.
“The Film Week is one of the most anticipated events of the year for the Russian-speaking community, - said Givi Topchishvili, President and CEO of Global Advertising Strategies. – This year marks our company’s tenth anniversary. To celebrate, we have decided to combine this occasion with the Russian Film Week to create a truly festive event for the entire Russian-speaking community of New York.”
The Film Week is actively supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, by the Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organizations (COJECO), Columbia University, New York Film Academy and School of Visual Arts, as well as some of the leading media agencies in New York. Full television coverage of the event will be provided by the international Russian-language television network, RTVI.
Participants: MPAA (Motion Pictures Association of America), AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), Directors Guild of America, The Creative Coalition, film distributors and producers, and many others.
Participants: Nancy Condee, Director of Graduate Studies,Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Pittsburgh University: specializes in contemporary Russian culture and cultural politics; Soviet cultural politics; late Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; imperial and postcolonial theory; popular culture.
Participants: students and professors of the NFA
Participants: Tim Frye, Director of the Harriman Institute; Alan Timberlake, Chair of the Columbia Slavic Department; Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Barnard College; Anthony Anemone, Professor of Russian, The New School; and many others.
Брошюра Девятой Недели Российского Кино в Нью-Йорке
This year, in addition to the film screenings and formal receptions, the Film Week will include a series of special open panel and round table discussions with some of the leading Russian and American cinematographers along with professors and students from the top film schools in the United States.
“The Film Week is one of the most anticipated events of the year for the Russian-speaking community, - said Givi Topchishvili, President and CEO of Global Advertising Strategies. – This year marks our company’s tenth anniversary. To celebrate, we have decided to combine this occasion with the Russian Film Week to create a truly festive event for the entire Russian-speaking community of New York.”
The Film Week is actively supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, by the Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organizations (COJECO), Columbia University, New York Film Academy and School of Visual Arts, as well as some of the leading media agencies in New York. Full television coverage of the event will be provided by the international Russian-language television network, RTVI.
Topics & Participants of the Roundtable Discussions
November 16th – The School of Visual Arts
Topic: Evolution of Russian cinema in the United States: prospects for collaboration and creative exchange.Participants: MPAA (Motion Pictures Association of America), AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), Directors Guild of America, The Creative Coalition, film distributors and producers, and many others.
November 17th – Brooklyn Public Library
Topic: History as interpreted by post-Soviet film producersParticipants: Nancy Condee, Director of Graduate Studies,Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Pittsburgh University: specializes in contemporary Russian culture and cultural politics; Soviet cultural politics; late Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; imperial and postcolonial theory; popular culture.
November 17th – New York Film Academy
Topic: Independent Post-Soviet cinema. Special event of Film Week – screening of Kira Muratova’s latest film “Melody for a Street Organ” (Melodiya dlya sharmanki)Participants: students and professors of the NFA
November 18th - Columbia University
Topic: “New barbarians” of Russian cinema - a new generation of Russian film directorsParticipants: Tim Frye, Director of the Harriman Institute; Alan Timberlake, Chair of the Columbia Slavic Department; Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Barnard College; Anthony Anemone, Professor of Russian, The New School; and many others.
Global Advertising Strategies, headquartered in New York, is a multi-platform, multicultural marketing communications firm with international reach. Global’s capabilities and experience of catering products and marketing messages to the diverse cultural and social identities of consumers worldwide are what make it a market leader. By functioning as a gateway into specifically selected markets around the globe, Global’s analysis, tools and experience helps it to deliver advertising with maximum effectiveness and efficiency. Global also represents international media outlets on an exclusive basis.
Independent Russian television studio “Clotho” specializes in the production of social and political documentaries. The studio was founded by a renowned scholar, filmmaker and screenwriter, Vladimir Sinelnikov. Among the films produced by the studio are: the trilogy “Heroes Never Die” (Geroi ne Umirayut), the 18-part TV series “The Last Myth” (Posledniy Mif), the documentary series “World War III” (Tretiya Mirovaya Nachalas) which focuses on the fight against terrorism, and many others.
OS Enterprises is a private American corporation that focuses on advancing Russian cinema in the United States, organizing various film events, and improving the cultural exchange between the two countries. The company also takes part in numerous publishing activities.
COJECO, the Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organizations, established in 2001, is a central coordinating body in the Russian Jewish community of New York, leading initiatives and enabling its member organizations and community leaders to build Jewish identity and accelerate the integration of the Russian-speaking Jews into American life and the larger Jewish community. COJECO currently provides services to forty-three member organizations and leads various educational, social and cultural programs that meaningfully engage Russian-speaking American Jews in Jewish life.
