Calling the director. Conversations with Russian film directors

Moscow Film School and Bombora Publishing present! The book 'Calling the director. Conversations with Russian film directors' is a true kaleidoscope of contemporary Russian cinema. Film critic Vsevolod Korshunov met with twelve outstanding directors of our time and talked to them about art, craft, and the industry as a whole. Each of them is a director, but each is unique. Each has their own view of cinema, their own professional secrets, and their own artistic principles. 'The peculiarity of this book is that it can be read in different ways. Film enthusiasts will be able to peek into the 'kitchen' of the creative process, learn various stories from the set, and see how a film is born. And film school students will have the opportunity to attend twelve master classes by very different authors who make different films, share different principles, and use different techniques. We conceived this book as a practical textbook on film directing, in which each paragraph will be a lively meeting with a new author.' - Vsevolod Korshunov, author of the book, film critic, editor, lecturer at VGIK and Moscow Film School. The book includes interviews with the following directors: Zhora Kryzhovnikov ('Call DiCaprio!', 'Relatives', and others), Valery Todorovsky ('Country of the Deaf', 'Hipsters', and others), Boris Khlebnikov ('Arrhythmia', 'A Common Woman', and others), Andrey Proshkin ('Doctor Richter', 'The Survivors', and others), Oksana Bychkova ('Piter FM', 'Another Year', and others), Ivan I. Tverdovsky ('Correction Class', 'Conference', and others), Anna Melikyan ('Star', 'Fairy', and others), Pavel Bardin ('Club', 'Russia 88', and others), Natalya Meshchaninova ('My Mom's Penguins', 'Alice Can't Wait', and others), Alexey Popogrebsky ('Koktebel', 'Optimists', and others), Alexey Fedorchenko ('Ovsyanki', 'Anna's War', and others), Marina Razbezhkina ('Harvest Time', 'Yar', and others).