On May, 14th Minister of Culture of Ukraine, Mikhail Kulinyak and Minister of Culture of France, Frederic Mitterand signed in Cannes an agreement between the governments of both countries on co-production of films.
This year Bohdana Smyrnova, a director of Ukrainian origin, will participate in The Cannes Residence with her upcoming feature project.
The Ukrainian short film by Maryna Vroda was selected for the competition program of the 64-th Cannes Film Festival. It is a French-Ukrainian co-production titled ‘Cross’.
Verhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) is going to conduct the hearings regarding problems of Ukrainian filmmaking. The hearings are scheduled for 6 of April 2011.
Ukraine will present the first domestic trailer for the movie in a 3D format – “Love and a dot” at the Berlin Film Festival, which will start on February 10-th. There are 3 Ukrainian feature films this year on Berlinale, including one in the main competition, and 6 short films.
Starting on February, 4 till February 11, 2011 in Kyiv cinema “Kyiv” there will take place a week of the restored movies by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, famous Ukrainian director . The program includes all nine films by Dovzhenko: “Berry of love”, “Courier’s bag”, “Zvenigora”, “Earth”, “Arsenal”, “Ivan”, “Aerograd”, “Schors”, “Michurin” reported by organizers.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dismissed the national film producers from paying land tax. The ban on land tax will be effective until January 1, 2016. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, January 26.
Eva Neiman has started shooting the movie titled ‘House with A Turret’ in Odessa. Eva Neumann is a Ukrainian director known as Kira Muratova’s pupil. The movie script written by Eva Neumann based on the story by Friedrich Gorenstein. The film will be shot in black and white. The national television channel ‘1+1’ became a […]
The budget has provided 120 million hryvnias for 2011 for the film industry this year. “Comparing to the previous “residual principle” of film financing (used to be 20-30 million) – the sum is almost a luxury “, says Ekaterina Kopylova, Head of the Agency for Cinematography.
The Verkhovna Rada has introduced a moratorium on the privatization of state-owned stake in the Odessa film studio until the law for the restoration of Ukrainian film art is adopted.
