Graduates have presented their documentary films at the festivals

The degree works of the graduates of  part-time documentary department were screened on three distinguished areas: the XXVIth International Documentary Film Festival of Eastern European cinema in Cottbus (Germany), Russian Open Documentary Film Festival “Artdocfest” and the St. Petersburg State University of Culture.

 Alexander Markov, an associate professor of Directing Department of  SPSUFT  and the tutor of the group, where he trained these graduated filmmakers, told about the participation of the students at the Festival in Cottbus:

-  The  International  Film Festival is held in Cottbus in eastern Germany in the 26th time. It was planned as a festival where the filmmakers of Eastern Europe can meet. Here you can see the new feature and documentary film, full length and short films. The filmmakers can express themselves, can learn their level and can understand the landscape of Eastern European cinema as contemporary media here. The audience is very active here. After the show, they communicate with the director, there is an international contact. This is especially important for young people - they see what they made, for whom, and why it's interesting. There are also pitching projects, which bring together professional directors, producers, distributors, film schools, where they can present their projects and find a partner.

-    We took part at a non-competitive program. We showed four films of the graduates of various classes. I`ve selected  12-15 films and sent to German partners, selectors of the festival in Cottbus. They have looked them together and  then  4 films were chosen. Three feature films and one documentaryof the classes of  Sergei Snezhkin , Sergei Ovcharov, Victor Buturlin and mine. My student Evgeny Kalinin's  film "War and Peace of Soldier Lytvyn" was debated heatedly. Maybe because the Second World War  is the point connecting us to Germany. The audience did not let the director to go. The film tells about 90-year-old veteran, who went through the war, the Kursk Fight, about his life. Bu not only his life in the senter of story, but also his children and grandchildren lives -  how they perceive his grandfather, a war story. It hurted people, and the discussion was very positive.

Read more on the Russian version of the University website:

http://www.gikit.ru/news/2016/11/u-vypusknikov-dokumentalistov-nachalas-...