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On April 25, Nika Film Award ceremony took place in Moscow. The prizes were awarded for two years (there was no award ceremony last year). The jury named the film “A Russian Youth” as the “Discovery of the Year”. A cinematographer of the film was Airat Yamilov, a graduate of St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television of 2013 (a workshop of Eduard Rozovsky, Sergey Astakhov and Aleksey Grebenkov) and a sound designer of the film was Andrei Fonin, a graduate of our university of 2006 (workshop of Vladimir Persov and Sergey Dementyev).

On April 8, at the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television, Australian film director, producer Robert Klenner gave a lecture "Constructing Screen Character".

The graduation work of director Timur Dubro (workshop of Victor Vasiliev) was selected for the competition programme of the 11th Pune Short Film Festival (India). Duel tells a story about the enmity of twin brothers who have very different outlooks on life.