A movie screening and a ceremony of awarding the winners of the “Letter. Word. Book” III St. Petersburg International Biennale in the Presidential Library

According to tradition, already for the third year in a row, the movies were screened during the next scheduled meeting of the Presidential Library Cinema Club, and the finalists in the multimedia nomination of the “Letter. Word. Book” St. Petersburg International Biennale were awarded the prizes.

An organizer of the festival is the Nevskaya Raduga (lit. rainbow over the Neva River) Foundation for the Support and Development of Children’s and Youth Creativity with the support of the Committee on Youth Policy of the Government of St. Petersburg and the Educational and Methodological Centers of the Committees for Culture of the Administration of St. Petersburg and the Government of the Leningrad Oblast.

“The systematic support of the beginners filmmakers is one of the most appreciated directions of work of the Presidential Library Cinema Club, — president of the Foundation for Support and Development of Children’s and Youth Creativity Peter Lerner remarked. — And we would like to express to the library gratitude for doing this. Many of those who received their first recognition in these walls keep successfully creating multimedia products in Russia and abroad.”

Since 2013 — the time of the founding of the Biennale — young participants from different cities of the Russian Federation and near abroad became winners of the multimedia nomination. The geography of settlements where the movies was submitted from is extensive: the Udmurt Republic, the Primorsky Krai, the Tyumen Oblast, the Ulyanovsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Altai Krai, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the republics of Kazakhstan and Belarus, and of course Moscow and St. Petersburg… This year is not an exception — the movies sometimes were sent from the most remote corners of Russia and neighboring countries.

The diploma of the first degree “For high professionalism and spirituality exploring the theme” went to the creators of the film entitled “I am not Byron, I am somebody else” from the “9 frames” studio of “Dynamics” School № 616  (art directors Alexey Dukhovnikov and Fyodor Prozhoga). Works of the students and teachers of “Dynamics” have already been shown in the Presidential Library, and these works always earn ovation, pleasing with deep analysis of the theme and bright acting performance. This year’s film-winner is the composition about the tragic fate of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. Apart from the fragments of the poet’s diary and his children’s drawings, the movie contains footage with young artists, some of which participated in filmmaking, sitting in wheelchairs.

Diploma of the first degree “For aesthetics and humor in the animation of creative writing” received a movie entitled “Limerick. Edward Lear” of “M-Art” Multimedia Studio of “Center on Vasilievsky” (under the direction of Olga Kostyuchenko). This movie is based on the “A Book of Nonsense” by E. Lear, in the translation of Mark Freidkin. “M-Art” Studio also has well proved its creative expertise by such works as “Ivan Turgenev and Pauline Viardot,” dedicated to the cartoon about Carlson film “He will Be Back…” and many others.

A movie entitled “Proverbs” was awarded diploma of the second degree “For the colorful design of the animated film.” Additionally, a diploma of the third degree “For an expressive graphic solution for the storyline” was awarded to Alisa Scherbakova, who has “enlivened” the proverb “Fear Has Many Eyes.” The Moscow “Graphics” Studio of the Center for the Development of Intelligence and Creativity at the Central Actor House named after A. A. Yablochkina released both these works (Instructor: Tatyana Dogadkina).

Special diploma “For good animation technique” went to a movie “Kolobok” of “Prestige” Studio in the Krasnoyarsk Center for Creative Education (Instructor: Olga Kazakova).