«Together” in Yalta

General Director of the telecine forum Alexander Belikov  spoke about the features of the meeting this year. "The competition this time involves 29 countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Finland, Estonia, USA, Kazakhstan ... Slovakia, Serbia and Hungary pleased us with the abundance of teleworking. For the first time TV people from Abkhazia, Palestine, Mongolia and Italy. will come By the way, there are a lot of co-productions, and therefore the problems of international cooperation will be the focus of one of the round tables of the forum. "Why are we not together?" which will be held by our guests, directors from Slovakia and Hungary.
Traditionally the telecine forum (though competition is, of course, the most important item, the jury will have a lot of work to do and difficult choices to make, (we shall advise their names later)) focuses on  communications between cultural professionals  from different countries socialization, disputes, finding common ground. Here are the themes of other proposed discussions:
"A comedy film: evolution or degradation?" Moderators: director, Honored Artist of Russia and Tajikistan Valery Ahadov and Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir Yepiskoposyan.
"Modern TV in Russia: dream factory or storm factory?" It will be conducted by the chief editor of "LG" Yuri Polyakov.
The question "Do documentaries have  a future?" the festival participants will be asked by a documentary filmmaker, creator of many historical films Helen Chavchavadze and her colleague with TV Center Vera Kuzmina.
The Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Russia Vsevolod Bogdanov will traditionally act as the moderator of the congress "Formula of Trust" and conduct the first meeting of the Club of the Famous Journalists.
The participants of the forum will certainly  visit  the house-museum of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,  where meetings with artists, concerts will be held. These events will be attended by People's Artist of the USSR Lev Durov, People's Artists of Russia singer Vladimir Matorin singer and actor of the Maly Theatre Alexander Potapov, People's Artist of Belarus, Alexander Yefremov, director and Honored Artist of Russia, soloist of the Kuban Cossack Choir Alexander Dedov…
In the music and poetic salon of the telecine forum People's Artist of Belarus Vladimir Gostyukhin and vocal group "Clear Voice" (Minsk) will present the literary and musical composition "At war as at war" and "Anna Snegina" (based on the poem by Sergei Yesenin).
Within the frames of the program "Ask for advice from the master" the audience will meet People's Artist of Russia Alexander Galibin and documentarian from Kirov, winner of State Prizes of Russia Alexei Pogrebnoy. There will be a recital of the wonderful film director Alla Sourikova  dedicated to anniversaries of her films: the 30th anniversary of the film "Looking for a woman" and the 25th anniversary of "The Man from Boulevard des Capucines", as well as recitals of prominent filmmakers Rustam Ibragimbekova and George Taratorkin. Together, we shall celebrate the 75th anniversary of the a composer, artistic director and the chief conductor of the Kuban Cossack Choir Victor Zakharchenko, as well as that of a brilliant actor and director, People's Artist of Russia Vsevolod Shilovsky.
And, of course, will be a traditional landing of telecine forum in Sevastopol. People’s Artists of Russia Boris Galkin, Alexander Mikhailov, Sergei Selin, Euclid Kurdzidis, actress Pauline Taganka Theater Nechitailo will perform for sailors on one of the warships. Besides,  a gala concert will be held in Sevastopol.  "To you, the legendary Sevastopol, we  dedicate."  Anna Shafazhinskaya (Canada), Peter Staszek (Slovakia), Igor Kartashow (Moscow), young talents Xenia Dezhneva, Alla Omelyuta and show group "Fedorino Gore" will perform at the concert. Meetings with students of journalism Sevastopol branch of Moscow State University, as well as with students of Yalta and Simferopol will be held.
The program of the forum is very intense. It could not have taken place without the support of the Government of Moscow and its department of media and advertising. We are grateful for the sponsorship to  the president of OAO Lukoil  Vagit Alekperov, President of OAO NK RussNeft Mikhail Gutseriev, the head of the company "Etalon-Invest" Daniel Seledchik, and the  organizers are grateful also to Victor melanin (the "Hot Creeck-Aqua"), Hambardzum Melikyan (“Millennium Group”)