Sea Of Desires

 Shato Gamisonia was born on the 9th of May, 1980. Graduated from the acting faculty of Theatrical University in the name of Boris Shukin in 2003. A master of Ovchinnikov courses. Finished Higher Courses for scriptwriters and directors in 2010, the workshop of Hotinenko, Finn, Fenchenko. Shota is also an actor in the Theatre «Na Taganke».

• Producer: Ivan Lopatin
• Director: Shota Gamisonia
• Scriptwriter: Shota Gamisonia
• Director of photography: Andrey DeBabov
• Original soundtrack by Anton Fedorov
• Sound director: Evgeniy Goryainov
• Art director: Alexandra Galliulina
• Costume director: Darya Sintsova
• Make-up artist: Polina Statsenko
• Editor: Timur Guzairov, Sergey Gaziev, Mikhail Soloviev, Grigoriy Kalinin
• The second director: Alexey Gavrilov
• Director's assistant: Alexandra Shahnazarova
• Casting-director: Anna Starodumova
• Actors' assistant: Anna Klimuk
• Make up artist: Natalya Miheeva
• Administration: Stepan Gordeev, Artem Semakin, Evgeniy Fedorovskiy, Vitya Karpov, Anna Kiseleva, Elena Dubovik
• Group's Headmaster: Evgeniy Tsygankov
• Executive Producers: Sergey Gaziev, Eliso Tsintzabadze

Our special gratitude to:

• Georgian Union in Russia, personally M. Hubutia
• Omari Zvania and Yazo Chichinadze
• “Golden Knight” film festival, Nikolay Burlyaev personally
• “AST’ company, personally Sergey Astahov and Alexander Yurulov
• Male folklore outfit in Georgian community “LOMISI”
• To the company “Aktsia LT”, personally to the master Boris Ekkel and Dmitriy Vasilievich for the stage property
• General manager “VIPROMO” Alexander Zonov and Roxana Pizhova
• “Vorobyevi Gori” and personally the head of merchant department Stepan Puchinyan and the specialist of the department Yulia Suhanova
• Open Air Museum “Abramtsevo”, personally the director Elena Voronina and her assistant Zoya Lisichkina
• Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors
• “Zhan-Zhak” café

The work on the short film “Sea Of Desires” started in 2009.

“Sea Of Desires” is a new valedictorian project of the formal Higher Courses Of Scriptwriters and Directors students – the director Shota Gamisonia (Hotinenko, Finn and Fenchenko Workshop) and the producer Ivan Lopatin (Atanesyan and Gindilis workshop).

The plot of the film is built on the idea of Moscow that is situated at the seashore… Maybe it is a bit unusual. But sometimes you are so tired of a routine, you want something new!

So, now Moscow has the sea! The city’s become a health resort, the air is wet now, and people are full of hope and happiness foretaste. In such a city one of the days of two best friends takes place. Plus a distinctive image of old Moscow as the action takes place in the 70 years of the 20^th century. What else can be needed for a disturbian film about being happy?

Vorobievi Gory, an open-air museum Abramtsevo, easily recognizable Moscow streets have become a shooting place. The film’s creators chose such places on purpose, according to their own view of the importance of chosen places for the city.

Starring: Maksim Bramatkin (“Stars”, tv-shows “Big Wheels”, “Nine Lives Of Nestor Mahno”), Sergey Burunov (“Knocked Up By The Sun 2”, “The Island”, “Dumbs”, tv-series “Big Difference”), Grigoriy Kalinin (“Close Spaces”, tv-show “Tatyana’s Day”), Anton Fedorov (“The Hottest News”) and a special guest – a famous Georgian actor Elgudgu Burduli (“The Sun of Insomniacs”, “A Hard Job Being A Gof”, “Essential People”, “Swimmer”).

Andrey DeBabov has become a director of photography. He took part in such big projects as “Afternoon Watch” – the second cameraman, “Treasure Raiders” – the second cameraman, “Say It In Russian” – the second cameraman). He also took part in shooting Yulia Savicheva’s music clips, the clips by “Serebro”, Glukoza and others.

A great cast and crew, an unusual idea makes the film not just a beautiful fantasy… Touching, ironical, not deprived of philosophical implication this story won’t leave you cold.

This film project has a big potential and will be presented on the international area of film festivals and cinema markets. The previous film of Shota Gamisonia and Ivan Lopatin “Fields. Clowns. Apple…” has already won a special award of film critics guild on Moscow Short Films Festival and took part in such big international festivals as Rotterdam Film Festival, Bolzano Short Film Festival, Trieste Film Festival.

The premiere of “Sea Of Desires” took place on the 10^th 2010.