Andrei PlakhovKirill RazlogovIan ChristieTom LuddyAlexander Rubensteyn

 

 

Cultural Policy and Collaboration

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in World Cinema

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Roundtable discussion 

29 September 2008, 10am - 4pm

BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London

The closing event of the Festival will be a roundtable discussion at BAFTA on Monday, 29 September. It will be a high-profile event, with key speaker including international film experts such as Andrei Plakhov and Tom Luddy, as well as the Russian President's Special Representative for Cultural Collaboration, Mikhail Shvydkoy. The topic under discussion will be cultural policy and international collaboration in filmmaking and film distribution.

The roundtable is organised jointly by Academia Rossica, a London-based Russian culture and arts foundation, and the Institute of International Expertise (Moscow). as part of the 2nd Russian Film Festival in London. The aim of the roundtable is to discuss role and significance of filmmaking in the development of contemporary society, establishing a platform for further open exchange of professional opinions between European countries. Leading international experts will be addressing the issues of interaction between filmmakers and governments, the globalisation impact on filmmaking process, collaboration between the countries, cultural and spiritual influence, and the issue of international regulations.

 

Programme

 

10am - Presentation of International Institute of Global development

Topic 1 - Cultural policy in cinema

11.30-12.00 - Coffee break

Topic 2 - International Collaboration

1.30pm - Lunch

 

Accreditation is essential to gain access to this exclusive event.

 

Please contact Academia Rossica

 

Margarita Osepyan

T: 020 7287 2614, 0780 566 8060

 

If, however, you are unable to attend, there will be audio and visual recordings of the proceedings that we will be able to share with you.

 

The participants of the roundtable include Russian, British, German and American filmmakers, producers, researchers and cultural policy makers:

 

 

Alexander Rubensteyn

Deputy director of the RAN Institute of Economics
This year, he was awarded a European prize for his ‘Contribution to Economics’. With R.S. Greenberg, he co-founded the concept ‘Economic socio-dynamism’, about which more than 10 studies have been published, both in Russia and abroad.

Kirill Razlogov

Director of the Institute of Cultural Studies, Moscow
Kirill is an internationally renowned film critic and lecturer in directing and script writing at the Institute for European Culture in Moscow.

Nik Powell

Deputy Chairman of Film Committee of BAFTA
He is currently director of the National Film & Television School in England, and he remains chairman of Scala Productions.

Andrei Plakhov

Film critic
Plakhov was born in Starokostiantyniv, Ukrainian SSR. After graduating in mechanics and mathematics from Lviv University, he studied history of cinema at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Tom Luddy

Film producer, founder of the Telluride Film Festival and jury member of numerous international film festivals
Tom has been the programme curator for the Documentary Film Institute, San Francisco State University since 2005. In 1974, Tom co-founded the Telluride Film Festival along with Bill Pence and James Card.

Alexander Lebedev

President of the International Institute of Global Development
Mr. Lebedev’s career commenced in 1977 at the Russian Academy of Sciences, after which he spent several years as a diplomat, being posted to Russia’s Embassy to the UK as both Third and subsequently Second Secretary.

Martin Kanzler

Analyst of the Department for Information on Markets and Financing at the European Audiovisual Observatory
He is responsible for the field of film statistics and the LUMIERE database.

Ruslan Grinberg

Director of the Institute for International Economic and Political Studies
Ruslan Grinberg is the director of the Economy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ian Christie

Vice President of Europa Cinemas
Ian Christie joined the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media in Autumn 1999, as Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History, having previously been Professor of Film Studies at the University of Kent (1997-9) and Visiting Lecturer in Film at Oxford University (1995-8).

Eddie Berg

Artistic Director, BFI Southbank
Eddie is also contributing to the BFI's vision to develop a purpose-built international centre for film and moving image culture in London for 2012.

Svetlana Adjoubei

Founding Director of Academia Rossica, editor of ROSSICA journal.