Speakers included Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky, American producer John D. Heinsen, and cinematographer John Mathieson.
A focus on Russian cinema was the main event at this year’s European Genre Forum, held at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 11-27).
Producer Alexander Rodnyansky – whose credits include Fedor Bondarchuk’s war epic Stalingrad, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated Leviathan, and Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills – gave a talk about the state of Russian cinema, moderated by Black Nights festival director Tiina Lokk.
Rodnyansky [pictured top with Tiina Lokk] is at the festival with The Duelist, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, a historical epic starring Petr Fedorov as a deadly gun-for-hire.
“Since 2000 Russian cinema got back the ambition to produce genre movies,” he said.
“Russian genre cinema has the potential to come up with really ambitious projects and to recoup investments in a single language territory [in Russia].”
He explained that he had focussed his career on “high quality movies” and had...
A focus on Russian cinema was the main event at this year’s European Genre Forum, held at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 11-27).
Producer Alexander Rodnyansky – whose credits include Fedor Bondarchuk’s war epic Stalingrad, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated Leviathan, and Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills – gave a talk about the state of Russian cinema, moderated by Black Nights festival director Tiina Lokk.
Rodnyansky [pictured top with Tiina Lokk] is at the festival with The Duelist, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, a historical epic starring Petr Fedorov as a deadly gun-for-hire.
“Since 2000 Russian cinema got back the ambition to produce genre movies,” he said.
“Russian genre cinema has the potential to come up with really ambitious projects and to recoup investments in a single language territory [in Russia].”
He explained that he had focussed his career on “high quality movies” and had...
- 11/21/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
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