Pilot, Russian TV Series Festival, Announces Nominees

The 4th annual Russian TV Series Festival Pilot has announced a competition program featuring 21 Russian premiere TV series. The festival will be held from 15 to 17 July in the city of Ivanovo.

Among the comedies are the historical series "Merchants and Children" about the problems of mutual understanding between fathers and children with Mikhail Porechenkov and Ksenia Kutepova and "Wretches" by Nikita Tamarov about how domestic conflicts between cohabitants can end with an alien invasion and the arrest of the real Santa Claus. This is a puppet comedy, but live actors also appear in it - for example, Yuri Bykov.


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Also in the competition is the Tsytsgender project, where Kristina Kucherenko played the role of a femme activist who blogs about fixing a toxic fighter without rules. Another comedy, but mystical - "Close Gestalt" from the creator of "Mother, Do not Cry" Maxim Pezhemsky. Her hero, having fallen from the 20th floor, acquires the "gift" to see ghosts and begins to help lost souls.

The selection also went to Adilkhan Yerzhanov's detective series "Frozen" about mysterious murders in an icy city starring Artem Bystrov and the detective story "Negotiator" with Kirill Pirogov about a very experienced mediator in dealing with terrorists. The heroes of each of the action-packed dramas make mistakes at work that turn their own lives into a nightmare. The mystical thriller "Alice's Dreams" with Ekaterina Vilkova and Denis Shvedov stands out in the competition - a scary story about a girl who can foresee the future.

The program also includes a number of "star" series - a Christmas drama about advertisers and filmmakers "And Now Advertising!" with Rinal Mukhametov, Alexei Zolotovitsky and Christina Asmus as herself , the tragicomedy about artificial insemination "Morozko" with Aglaya Tarasova, the religious drama "The Coming" by Rezo Gigineishvili with Philip Yankovsky, Varvara Shmykova and Alexandra Rebenok and the sentimental comedy "A Friend for an Hour" with Sergei Shakurov and Boris Dergachev, as well as the action comedy "Red 5" with Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Roman Kurtsyn.


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In addition, the competition included the comedy "Mafia" about a family of unlucky criminals performed by Ingrid Olerinskaya, Fyodor Lavrov and Alexander Robak, the dramedy "Transformers" with Arthur Beschastny about a policeman who takes root in a travesty show, social fiction by Eraj Nidoev "22:22 ", whose heroes find themselves in Groundhog Day, a comedy about the female lot in Russia "Cafe Cuba" with Maria Fedunkiv and an independent project "A Man Enters the Stage " directed by Nina Volova.

For the first time in the competition - two projects of Vkontakte LLC . This is a big budget screenlife series Dead of Night from producer Timur Bekmambetov about the zombie apocalypse, originally created for Snapchat, and the hooligan fantasy comedy City of Demons about evil spirits hunters. The thriller "Chimera" from the creator of "Crystal" Oleg Malovichko with Lukerya Ilyashenko, Yegor Koreshkov and "Drop" is devoted to acute social problems - a tragicomedy about how rich people call orderlies to themselves to quickly recover from intoxication. The idea of ​​the series belongs to the blogger Ida Galich, and Gosha Kutsenko and Anastasia Reznik starred in the project.


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Competitive program of the IV Festival of serials "Pilot":

1. "Wretches", dir. Nikita Tamarov, Zebra Hero Films, PREMIER
2. Dead of Night, dir. Sean Hington, Bazelevs, Vkontakte
3. City of Demons, dir. Denis Gulyar, Big Bang Films, Vkontakte
4. "Drip", dir. Ilya Aksenov, idea Ida Galich, 1-2-3 Production, PREMIER
5. "Chimera", dir. Dushan Gligorov, Wednesday, IVI
6. Close Gestalt, dir. Maxim Pezhemsky, Lunapark, Kinopoisk
7. Frozen, dir. Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Wednesday, IVI
8. "Coming", Rezo Gigineishvili, "Sky", START
9. Merchants and Children, dir. Alexander Sozonov, Good Story, TNT
10. "And now advertising!", dir. Sergey Ramz, TV-3 (supported by 1-2-3 Production)
11. "Transformers", dir. Artem Golenkov, "Place of Power"
12. Frost, dir. Yulia Lysova, Place of Power, Okko Online Cinema
13. "Zytsgender", dir. Radik Rakhimov, Film Studio KIT and START
14. "A Man Enters the Stage", dir. Nina Volova, WinterFilm
15. "Red 5", dir. Mikhail Starchak, 1-2-3 Production, TV-3, PREMIER
16. Alice's Dreams, dir. Andrey Dzhunkovsky, 1-2-3 Production
17. A friend for an hour, dir. Alexander Boykov, 1-2-3 Production, TNT
18. The Negotiator, dir. Nurbek Egen, Wednesday, KION Online Cinema
19. "22:22", dir. Eraj Nidoev, 1-2-3 Production, PREMIER
20. Cafe Cuba, dir. Zhanna Kadnikova, Good Story, TNT
21. Mafia, dir. Shota Gamisonia, Sony Pictures and TEAM Films, "Friday"

The winners of the festival will be determined by the jury, which will include representatives of the domestic television and film industry. They will select the best in the nominations of Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Producer, Director, and Screenwriter, and will also award a special Jury Prize. The audience will also have to choose the Best Pilot, who will receive the Audience Choice Award.

The Pilot series festival was established to promote the development of the Russian series genre, to provide its creators with the opportunity to show their projects to leading industry experts and TV business professionals.

The President of the Pilot Festival is film director, screenwriter and producer Valery Todorovsky. The general producer of the festival is actress Svetlana Dryga . Program Director - Egor Moskvitin . The partners of the festival are Gazprombank and Insurance Group SOGAZ.


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The Board of Trustees of the Pilot Festival includes Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on Cultural Affairs, Secretary of the Council for Culture and Art under the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Tolstoy , CEO of the production company COSMOS studio Alexander Akopov , film director, producer, founder and co-founder of the Art Pictures Studio film company Fyodor Bondarchuk , General Director of Nikita Mikhalkov's TRITE Studio Film Company, Chairman of the Cinema Fund's Expert Council Igor Tolstunov , founder, general producer of the Sreda company Alexander Tsekalo , governor of the Ivanovo region Stanislav Voskresensky .

More information about the festival is available on the website: pilotfestival.ru

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