Program Director of the International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries «Pacific Meridian» on the work at international film festivals
The 11th International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries «Pacific Meridian» will be held on Vladivostok from 7 to 13 September. Despite the timing, the film festival all year: the software department staff attend international film festivals and bring the most interestingkinonovinki from around the world. On his working trips correspondent of «Novaya Gazeta newspaper in Vladivostok,» said program director of the Film Festival «Pacific Meridian» Yuri Goncharov.
My daily regime
First, all the festivals where we appear to run parallel to the film market. Somewhere In November and December, an active correspondence with the companies that will be presented at the film market, for example in Berlin.We collect certain films that are of interest to us, «Can you give us a DVD-Screener (look-protected discs with movies — Ed.)? »
Film Market opens at ten to eight in the morning to come up in a special building, take a turn and accreditation badges to dial the number of tickets for the movies that you want to see in advance by selecting them in the catalog. I make a list on a daily, per session, and at the place where it will take place, that is,geographically know where I live and where the screenings, estimate, to have time here — here, here — there. In Berlin it takes place mainly on Potsdamer Platz and Alexanderplatz. Basically, watch five films a day — this is normal.
When I arrive in Berlin, I had painted every day. From 1000 to 1730 — See you at the film market, where first you have unconsciously pay attention to «their» region — in Asia, Canada, America, New Zealand, Australia and Latin America. The very same competition program of the Berlin Film Festival this year seemed chaotic, controversial and chaotic.
Hong Kong and live Johnnie
The Hong Kong International Film Festival — one of the largest film festivals in the world (March 17 — April 42013). In Hong Kong, the principle of operation is the same as in Berlin — is written off in advance, walk-gathering drives, and share your contacts.
But to me it is easier — especially with watching movies. In Hong Kong, wearing accreditation badge, you come before a session in the theater — on pre-selected film — and become a special place, fenced ribbons, along with the same guests of the festival. Wait. Five minutes before the start of the session is the boy and said, «Please, ladies and gentlemen, come to free spaces.» If there are no empty seats, you sit down on the stairs. On the stairs I saw «drug war» Johnnie To. When I saw the director himself Johnnie Well, it\’s about the same as with Lenin spoke.
We are all, in my opinion, should be equal to Hong Kong, the main objective of the organizers is — to make sure that the people watching as many movies. Sites on the Hong Kong Film Festival and a half times more than in Berlin.
From the Russian selectors in Hong Kong, I met Cyril Emilevich Razlogova, program director of MIFF. He goes there every year selects something for its film festival. Sometimes we even embark on the territory of the conflict — the Moscow Festival takes place earlier than ours, and we have chosen the same pattern
On the «Kinotavr» «own» atmosphere
On the «Kinotavr» all of our filmmakers, of any rank, act solely as the number one star. For the majority of people who come there, «Kinotavr» or no opportunity to remind myself — no, they are interested in some quite mundane things — like the heroine said Nonna Mordyukova in the movie «The Diamond Arm», they are there «illusory way of life», a endless pagan, savage and merciless fun. But I guess that\’s part is a special charm «Kinotavr» there are out there, of course, those who are not spoiled by the «big movie» and «producer\’s humanism» — the young guys, the participants of the contest «short film», in Cinematography mostly students or the St. Petersburg Academy, workshops Hotinenko, Fenchenko, Master. When I first arrived in Sochi, I was amazed to learn that the competition screenings — only for professionals, film critics and film experts — the general viewers, a program «Film on the Square», the most cash Russian tape already made in rolling, and this program is very popular. But I still do not understand: why is that? After all, it is always a film festival — for the audience, and in full
What to expect from the «Meridian»?
The program «Cinema of Russia» want to show the new film by Boris Khlebnikov\’s «long and happy life», who participated in the Berlinale competition. Berlin — we hope will — the picture «Vicky and Flo saw a bear,» Dany Cote and the Grand Prix of the festival — the Romanian film «Pose a child.» Hong Kong — this year, as many as four films aspire to the competition. Maybe we\’ll do a separate program of Chinese cinema.
There will be a retrospective of Alexis Herman, a multiplier of Alexander Petrov. On the 75th anniversary of Primorye We have prepared a retrospective of «Daltelefilma.» Already approved the program — «variegated Western» in the open air, we selected seven westerns (from classical to «spaghetti western»).
On the centenary of Indian cinema, is likely to be a retrospective of «Focus on India.»
From the point of view of the common man, whatever it is that «programmers» «Pacific Meridian», looks quite serious: what it is — to sit for days and watch a movie? What kind of work at all? This opinion exists only in Russia — in the West, people are well aware of how this is hard, exhausting work
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