Disappearance will be presented on the MIFF in Cannes

On the 28th of January 2014 the first feature length project “Disappearance” by Timofey Zhalnin took part in the second pitching of debutants organized by National Academy of Cinema Art and Science in Russia and Cinema Filmmaking Union.

Only ten motion pictures selected from more than 200 submissions took part in the event and as the result the film has got a special money prize from the Cinema Filmmaking Union in Russia.

But it is not the end: cinema company ROSKINO gave the film an opportunity to be presented on Russian pavilion on the International Cannes Film Festival -2014 in France!

The first draft name for the film was “The Wood”. The main character Andrey has once committed a compromise with his conscience and has got married for building a successful career. He and his wife Vika have got lost in Taiga. Extreme circumstances make the characters fight for their moral and physical surviving. As the result they got know each other much better and found true love within them. 

The film is based on the real story that once happened in Siberian Taiga. The shootings will take place in West Sayans next summer. The film is supported by the Youth Filmmaking Centre of Russia, Vkontakte, ROSKINO, GLAVKINO, StarLand and others.

Short Films Projects:

• A special 100.000 rubles prize from The Filmmaking Union went to Alexey Burikin (“Far Till The Victory”)
• A special 100.000 rubles prize from The Filmmaking Union went to Maxim Dashkin and Irina Kirkizh (“Circle Movement”)
• Providing shooting process with a technical support  from tha company “Modern Shooting Technique” went to Artem Tsaregorodtzev (“My main role”)
• A special prize from the cinema school “Cinema Artery” went to Yaroslav Zhalnin (“Girls”)
• A certificate for a master class by Alexander Nosovskiy from Alexander Mitta’s cinema school went to Konstantin Fam (“The Violin”)
• A studying certificate from scriptwriting workshop Teamwriting went to Elena Vahrusheva (“From 10 To The Infinity”)
• A cycle of video classes from international and local filmmakers of MacGuffin went to Elena Vahrusheva (“From 10 To The Infinity”)
• Robert McKee’s book “Story: A Guide To Screenwriting” from the publishing house “Alpina” went to Artem Tsaregorodtzev (“My main role”)

Expert jury of the pitching, short films section:

• Sergey Lazaruk – the first deputy of the Filmmaking Union’s president;
• Natalya Goidenko – an executive director of the “Right holders National Support Fund”;
• Vladimir Grammatikov – a film director, producer
• Fyodor Popov – a general manager of the companies “Stella” and “VGIK-debut” studio;
• Natalya Semina – The “MIFF” director, the main editor of the magazine “Svoy/Own”
• Larisa Solonitsina – a film expert, the main editor of the newspaper “SK-news”;
• Vera Sumenova – a president of The Higher Courses For Directors and Scriptwriters;
• Boris Tokarev – a director, a producer, a general manager of the “Debut” studio;
• Vladimir Fenchenko – a director, a teacher.

Feature length projects:

A special 100.000 rubles prize from The Filmmaking Union went to Timofey Zhalnin (“Disappearance”)
A special prize from “ROSKINO” – a presentation of the film on MIFF in Cannes went to Timofey Zhalnin (“Disappearance”)
A certificate for the service of shooting pavilion from the “GLAVKINO” company went to Anna Artamonova (“Mummy”)
A special prize from the cinema franchise “Moskino” went to Anton Bilzho (“A Dream Fish”)
A certificate for a master class by Alexander Nosovskiy from Alexander Mitta’s cinema school went to Timofey Zhalnin (“Disappear”)
A certificate for a master class by Linda Siger from Alexander Mitta’s cinema school went to Nadezhda Selivanova (“Colombina”)
A certificate from the cinema school “Cinema Artery” went to the project “Invisible Fathers”
Robert McKee’s book “Story: A Guide To Screenwriting” from the publishing house “Alpina” went to Anton Bilzho (“A Dream Fish”)
Robert McKee’s book “Story: A Guide To Screenwriting” from the publishing house “Alpina” went to Eduard Oganesyan (“Pepe”)

Expert jury of the pitching, feature length selection:

• Ilya Bachurin – a general manager of the group of companies “GLAVKINO”;
• Elena Glikman – a general producer of the “TELESTO” company;
• Vadim Goryainov – a producer of the “SPUTNIK” company;
• Anna Gudkova – pitchings’ organizer on “Cinemataur”, an art director of an educational project “Cultburo”;
• Maria Zatulovskaya – a director of the development department in the company Bazelevs;
• Oleg Ivanov – a general manager of the “KinoExpertiza” company;
• Ekaterina Mtsituridze – a general manager of the “ROSKINO” company;
• Alexey Nelepin – the main editor of the “ThreeT” studio;
• Dmitriy Rudovskiy – a general producer of the “Art Pictures Vision” company;
• Sergey Selyanov – the STV company president;
• Igor Tolstunov – the “PROFIT” company president;
• Alevtina Chinarova – VGIK president, cinema art NII director.

The first pitching was last year. It successfully supported a lot of perspective project of young filmmakers.

441 requests (223 feature length films and 208 short ones) were made for the participating in the second debutant pitching. 10 projects in short film section and 10 feature length projects were selected.