The Presidential Library awarded the creators of the best films of the Open Screening "Ekranizatsiya"

On May 26, 2022 the Presidential Library summed up the results of the St. Petersburg Open Screening of creative works. The co-organizers of the event are the Writers' Union of St. Petersburg and the Russian Book Union.

The event featured a film by the famous documentary filmmaker Konstantin Artyukhov “Exalt the Russian word”, dedicated to the history of the Russian Academy of Sciences.. The author of the script of the film is the director of the Pusjkin All-Russian Museum Sergey Nekrasov, the director is Konstantin Artyukhov. The film provides a lot of documentary evidence from the era of the creation of the Academy, including pages from a unique edition of the Bible from the time of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, fragments from the notes of the first president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, performed by People's Artist of Russia Svetlana Kryuchkova. There are also reflections on the history and significance of the Russian Academy of Sciences by Helene Carrère d'Encausse, permanent secretary of the French Academy and Lyudmila Verbitskaya, head of St. Petersburg State University.

The creators of the best films presented at the St. Petersburg Open screening of creative works "Ekranizatsiya" in 2021 were also awarded. These are the films “Daniil Granin. The Last Interview” (directed by Dmitry Karalis); "Olga Bergholz" from the cycle "Breathing one Breath..." (director Dmitry Chernetsov), "Architecture of the Siege" (scriptwriter and director Maxim Yakobson), project of the Petersburg Heritage and Perspective Foundation.

Honorary diplomas were awarded to the writer and screenwriter Andrey Kivinov - "For the contribution to the development of Russian cinema"; writer Mikhail Grushevsky - "For the creation of the literary Internet channel "Reading Grushevsky".

Studio "M-art" (headed by Olga Kostyuchenko) and Animation Studio "Multproekt" of the Primorsky Cultural Center of St. Petersburg (headed by Marina Martynova) were awarded for creating the best animated films.

A video recording of the event is available on the institution's Rutube- channel.