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From Tomsk to Hollywood: how Siberian can become a global producer

© РИА Томск. Павел СтефанскийFrom Tomsk to Hollywood: how Siberian can become a global producer

TOMSK, Nov 28 – RIA Tomsk, Vadim Belozertsev. Native of Tomsk, producer of feature films "Siberia. Monamur" and "Mata Hari" Anastasia Kovtun told students of the Tomsk State University on Monday, how to achieve success in the film industry and to get a job in Hollywood. More detail are in material of RIA Tomsk.

Kovtun was born in Tomsk in 1979. She lives in France since 1996, where graduated from the  University of Caen Normandy of the city of Caen, Faculty of Economics and Management. She worked with the film director Luc Besson ("Taxi", "From Paris with Love") and the actor Gerard Depardieu ("Asterix & Obelix", "Les Misérables"). Shootings of her latest work – series "Mata Hari" – took place also in Hollywood.

To find the place in the film industry

As Kovtun told, the decision to work in the film industries came to her during study in France. At that time, she knew only one name in the film sphere – Luc Besson and, having come to his studio, submitted an application for a training in his production center.

"I started in administrative group on shootings of movies of Besson, I was bringing sandwiches. I was at the very end of the list of film crew, but it pleased me very much – there are a lot of names, but the list is one", – she remembers.

According to Kovtun, working with Besson she understood that beginners in the film industry, first of all, need to be determined, how they want to construct the career: to join production center and to earn a name from movie to movie by decades, or to go in the way, creating a unique product.

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At the same time, you shouldn't forget that it is possible to make the name in cinema not only as an actor or a producer. "When you set a goal and you say: "I want to work in the film sphere", you should look at the list of titles and to read about each profession, which is in titles, and to think, if is it for me? Anyway a producer has to know all these professions", – Kovtun considers.

According to her, if there is a strong confidence to become a producer, first of all, it is worth studying bases of cinema art: to take courses, and it is even better – to get basic education in theater universities. After that, you should add knowledge base, having received economic specialty.

Not to shoot about polar explorers, without having visited the Arctic Circle

The beginning producers shouldn't undertake pictures about things, in which they understand nothing, and to work only with the known and clear scenes and situations, Kovtun is convinced. Otherwise the movie will be simply uninteresting to a viewer.

"I watched in Omsk a short film about two male polar explorers, living behind the Arctic Circle. The director is a girl of 18 years from the South. And after viewing I have asked: "And why do you shoot about two male polar explorers? Have you ever been behind  the Arctic Circle? You've got two Martians. Then you should name it "Two men from Mars" – it would be more plausible. You have nothing to tell? Had you no love?", – she shared.

The producer gave the first work as an example "Siberia. Monamur". The film was shot in Krasnoyarsk Krai – in the territory, the familiar for resident of Tomsk since the childhood. And characters of the movie were "copied" from real people, in particular, from the screenwriter's father. As a result the picture won more than 100 awards at world film festivals.

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Producer Anastasia Kovtun
According to Kovtun, when you have name and money, it is possible to develop action of a movie in the cities and even the countries unfamiliar before. The main thing is that there was a history, which can be transferred to a viewer, and the city will serve as a scenery, helping to tell it.

"New York is good if you want to describe history in the city from glass and concrete in infinite vanity of life. But for writing of a good scenario, with which the movie begins, you should visit this place and to spend there several days. Any good scenario is endured", – she explains.

Two ways to find money

When there is enough knowledge and there is an idea about what a film, it is necessary to think of financing, Kovtun says.

"It is a difficult way to submit an application for a competition to the Ministry of Culture. The competition takes place once a year. The application isn't usually approved from the first time, but from the second, from the third... It will be interesting to them, who is such persistent, and they will allocate money. It will be necessary to fill in 400 pages of applications, to undergo all competitive procedures, but there will be money", – she added.

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According to her, the simpler method is to find producer studio, there are around eight in Russia, and to send the scenario there. It is possible to find the list of studios on the websites, for example, Kinotop and Kinopoisk. "Everything is read, answered. Everybody is open for dialogue", – Kovtun shared, having noted that this method has certain minus – the product shall be interesting for target audience of the center, otherwise nobody will pay attention to it.

Simplicity of this method is that the application to the Ministry of Culture for an unknown author will be filled by eminent production center, so, money will be allocated from the first time. Besides, it is quite possible that the author of the worthwhile film will have an opportunity to show it on TV or the platform of the center.

"When we were shooting "Siberia. Monamur" (screenwriter) even had a monkey on his apartment in Novosibirsk, risked, but then Besson's center joined us later, and everything became good. But the person risked to live on the street. There is also nothing without risk", – the producer emphasizes.

From Siberia to Hollywood

According to Kovtun, having created the product, which was pleasant to the Russian audience, it is possible to try to cooperate also with foreign studios. The main thing in this question is to offer that content, with which it will be interesting to work for the western specialists.

"We were shooting "Mata Hari" in the Hollywood studio. Everything is very simple: we contacted them. Russian projects weren't realised there before, but as the project was written in English and "is calibrated" under the American public, – please! We cooperated with them without any problems. Everything is possible", – Kovtun concluded.

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