Russia (bbabo.net) - Russian cinema is again on the pages of the world press. Today leading industrial publications have written that Darren Aronofsky will head the jury of the Patriki Film Festival at the Russian film festival. This is reported by Deadline and Variety. Moscow hosted a New Year brunch at Patriarch's Ponds, where several news were reported. First, Moscow will host the first international online film festival in Russia with the Patriki Film Festival competition program. The offline festival on Patrick itself will be held for the fourth time. But the online film screening will be held for the first time. Both events are scheduled for the summer of 2022. In the part that will be held live, the prize-winning paintings selected by the jury will be shown on a large screen.

The second news is that the chairman of the jury of the online festival will be an American film director, screenwriter and producer, laureate of the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival Darren Aronofsky. Russian viewers are familiar with Aronofsky from the pictures "Black Swan", "Mama" and others. “I was very pleased to respond to the invitation to chair the jury of the Patriki Film Festival in 2022. The festival encourages authors from all over the world to submit their entries to compete for the main Grand Prix award. ", says Darren Aronofsky. - Surprise us with your originality and author's look! ".

It will be known later whether Aronofsky will come to Russia to present the prizes to the laureates. The short list of the Patriki Film Festival competition program will include 7 films, from which the winner of the main award will be selected. You can send an application from December 20, films of any timing with a bright artistic expression and a fresh look can take part in the competition. Detailed conditions can be found on the official website of the festival. We will only add that Russian films will be selected for the festival on a general basis.

One more piece of news - video service Start joins the partners of Patriki Film Festival. This means that the winning films can be watched on the Internet as part of a special program, when all the events are online and offline. A Start representative will also be on the jury of the festival.

However, the films themselves at the online festival will be shown on another - a specially created international platform. The observer was told that the main thing in creating such a platform will be the principle of transparency - so that each viewer can understand exactly how the festival is being made. Also on the platform will be available the option of spectator voting.

The founders of the festival, Marina Zhigalova and Alexey Bokov, are professionally connected with the film industry and have vast production experience.

“As part of the fourth Patriki Film Festival, we want to leave the existing system and propose a new format, which, in our opinion, is much more in line with modern trends. The main difference between our film festival this time is a new international online format. the name, since the Patriarch's is a symbol of the cultural and emotional spirit of Moscow, - said Marina Zhigalova, co-founder of the festival. vision of the modern world. In addition, we are creating a new digital platform that will enable anyone, from anywhere in the world, to freely watch any of the films presented during the festival. Usually, festival films are closed to a wide audience, and we want to change this format. " ...

"Patriki Film Festival has grown from a local city event into an international festival. The new online format that we offer is an opportunity for authors to show their work to the whole world, a great chance to be seen and heard from anywhere in the world," says Alexey Bokov. In this sense, our choice of Darren Aronofsky as chairman of the jury is very consonant with the concept of the festival, which opens up wide opportunities for the author's artistic expression. Aronofsky feels the spirit of the times and, of course, has a strong name, thanks to which the contestants have a chance to get a direct ticket to Hollywood " ...

The general media partner of the festival in 2022 will again be the Independent Media media holding.

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