Kazan schoolchildren and students are invited to the TolstoyLab creative laboratory
The program includes 10 months of free training, 8 fascinating intensives, 7 well-known speakers - authors of major projects on the country's leading channels, as well as 15 shows in Russian cities.
Young people aged 14 to 21 years are invited to participate in laboratory events.
“TolstoyLab: a documentary film laboratory for beginners” is a project of the Regional Public Organization “Russian National Cultural Association of the Republic of Tatarstan”, which is being funded by a grant from the President of the Russian Federation. The partners of the winning project are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the A.S. Pushkin Cultural Center, the autonomous non-profit organization for the development of cinema and television "Cinema Inside Out", Cinema "Mir", Cultural Center "Moskovsky" and others.
To become a member of a large project, it is necessary to complete a non-competitive creative task with the goal of getting to know the filmmaking and the life of a writer for the first time, and upload the text on the official website: TolstoyLab.rf.
Authors of the best ideas will be able to take part in 8 free intensives on scriptwriting skills, directing, cameraman work and editing, as well as the Kazan period of Leo Tolstoy's life.
According to the organizers, the shooting of the film will turn into a creative laboratory, a platform for free communication, designed to build ties between cultural and humanitarian professionals and schoolchildren, students, young people who are interested in culture and have a penchant for writing, journalism, and cinema.
The result of the project will be the creation of a documentary film about the early years of Leo Tolstoy, spent in Kazan and filled with quite dramatic experiences that are not alien to the modern maturing person. The film will tell about the formation of the future writer, about Kazan and the imperial university, life and customs of the XIX century thanks to reliably restored interiors, costumes and graphic reconstruction of the city’s image. The presentation of the films is planned in Kazan, Moscow, Balakhna (Nizhny Novgorod region), Yasnaya Polyana.
“This project aims to popularize Russian literature through participation in laboratory activities. It also gives you the opportunity to get in touch with the professions of the film industry, with which in the future, perhaps students will want to connect their lives. And at the exit we will get a high-quality documentary about the Kazan period of Leo Tolstoy’s life, ”said Irina Aleksandrovskaya, member of the Public Chamber of the Republic of Tatarstan, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Tatarstan, Chairman of the Board of the Russian National Cultural Association of the Republic of Tatarstan.
“Education will go on gradually: first, the guys will find out where such skills are useful, get acquainted with directing, the skills of a screenwriter, camera work, and after that the teams of schoolchildren will go to the set, where they will create their first documentary film in the style of“ film about the movie. " Intensives on the Kazan period of Leo Tolstoy’s life, editing, criticism, reviewing and public presentation will take place after the shooting. It is very important that many trainings will be conducted by professionals from Moscow and Kazan, who create large projects for the leading channels of the country, ”said Vyacheslav Ivanchuk, project manager and director of the film about Leo Tolstoy.
More detailed information is available on the TolstoyLab.rf project website.
Contact person - Vyacheslav Ivanchuk, Ph.D. + 7-996-337-55-67; + 7-908-159-98-72.