a Beautiful panoramic view opened up to the audience on the future of Gorky film Studio. In fact, when in October 2019 Chairman of the Board of the Studio “Soyuzmultfilm” Julian Slasheva were appointed to the position of General Director of the Gorky film Studio, who would know that there will come times of a pandemic and will be in demand not only animation, but also the genre as of animadoc. I.e., documentary narration, dubbed “augmented reality” in the form of cartoons. In an example, such paintings as “you Know, mother, where was I?” Leo Gabriadze or “book of the sea” Alexei Vakhrusheva – they well illustrate this movement. In demand now and docudrama, and documentary TV shows. Every self-respecting online cinema opened during the quarantine documentary direction. So it’s no accident that the presentation of the Gorky film Studio was attended by representatives of the largest Russian Internet services. However, about partnerships at the meeting promised to tell later, but for now introduced the concept and strategy of development in line with that already in the near future, the Gorky film Studio will become a “modern creative cluster-Technopark”. Moreover, Yulianna Slascheva, giving presentations, and said, “We expect the leadership in this direction.” However, she stressed that the market, which leaves the film Studio, is a highly competitive.
not to mention that at this stage in our country women leaders derive many of the largest Studio from oblivion. Inessa Yurchenko at a recent press conference on the occasion of the Studio “Lenfilm”, which she chaired, admitted that the premises were cleared “as the Augean stables”. Juliana Slaschova also did not hide the fact that many of the offices at the Studio of Gorky are inoperative. You will need to restore even the front facade. Slaschova said that the Gorky film Studio is not only a historic building in the street Eisenstein in Moscow and branches: Tsentrnauchfilm, which produced popular science and educational films, NIKFI research kinofotoinstituta and Lennauchfilm – Studio of a full cycle, which is located in Saint Petersburg. Most of the premises in working condition. “The Gorky film Studio is a vast territory with a total area of 3.5 hectares, currently employs more than 200 people”, – said the General Director. And continued: “We want to create kinocenter – industrial Park, which will include: modern film studios – big and small – with all the necessary infrastructure, a digital marketplace for content production, coworking and offices, platforms for creativity and production, and accelerator projects. We will restore, Cathalgiziryan, including scenery and costumes”. She also promised that will be established the website “with easy and actual functionality, which in future will allow to execute a number of services Studio online”.
However, in addition to economic problems ahead, problems with the content. And that is Studio put in the forefront. Slaschova said that for 9 months of work, they assembled a team, developed the strategy of development for 7 years up to 2026, set up a production center, which was led by the famous Manager of Lika Blank, and carry out rebranding. For the last time, more than 700 applications were received from artists for the Studio. Of them were composed of “short-list” of the 50 projects, but production started only 4. According to Slashhevoj, priority will be given to development detsko-youthful, youth, and family movies, and documentary and popular science films.
Now in General, at different stages of production at the Gorky film Studio are more than 20 projects of different genres. One of them is the romantic Comedy “Love is not the size,” directed by Maria Shulgina, created in collaboration with film company “New people”, will appear on the screen after the opening cinema. This was told by the General Director of “New people” Natalia mokritskaya, who attended the presentation, and emphasized that they have with Gorky film Studio far-reaching plans for the production of films.
Of documentary and popular science projects was announced picture “Caspian knot” – about people whose work is connected with the Caspian sea, “the Mountain” – about women who live in the North Caucasus, “At a distance”, a story about the Russians, who experienced the period of the pandemic in different parts of the world (of him alone wrote “RG” – the project is preparing to enter the big world film festivals), “Promenade” is about the life of a provincial waterfront, “the Arctic. Cleansing” – the journey to an uninhabited island, Vilkitsky and others. Speaking the language of numbers, this year will produce 12 hours of content, and will strive to ensure that in the next couple of years, there were more than a hundred. Moreover, according to Slashhevoj on the new Studio named after Gorky will try to do good family content – the one which is now so lacking.
Also in the nearest plans of the Studio a series of public events. This XV festival of documentary films “World of knowledge” – in October, and the international part will be held in an online format, as the domestic reality. The exhibition “the History of costume in the movies” will take place in December. Conference “Standardization of digital cinema and digital cinema” will be held also this year.
More from the news – in the next month, ie in August – just in time for the new school year, the Studio will present a revived and ��obnovlennyi popular science newsreel “I Want to know everything!”, which in Soviet times was so famous that he was known and loved not only students but also adults.
left Yuliana Slascheva audience without news of “Soyuzmultfilm”. Animated feature film “Suvorov” – an ambitious “unfinished” studios, on which work lasted for many years, has released in 2020. the Wait is long.
I Should add that if handled with care and the right leadership, many of the economic assets of the Gorky film Studio can do a good job on the production of new films, TV series, short films and other genres. The producers are prepared – work artists. Cinematography, recall, is from the Gorky film Studio literally across the road.
