September 26, 2008

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Svetlana Sleptsova and Dmitri Yaroshenko were a success in individual race at the summer Biathlon Championships of Russia in Ufa.

Svetlana was the best at 15 km distance of without misses. The second was Albina Akhatova who  was 4 minutes later than Sleptsova and the third was Olga Zaitseva  (- 4  minutes 9,6 seconds).   

 Twice  repeated World Champion Dmitri Yaroshenko on the second lane of 20 km race had three misses but because of the high speed was the first. Another our countryman Nikolai Kruglov was the third after Andrei Churilov from Novosibirsk.

The chief coach of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra in biathlon Valeri Zakharov said in his comments that Ugra biathletes were ready for coming competitions of the new Season and their countrymen would be pleased with their victories in competitions with top biathletes of the world.

September 26, 2008

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The closing ceremony of the XII International Festival of TV Programs and TV Films "Golden Drum"  was held in Khanty-Mansiysk on September 25.

Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko said at the awarding ceremony of the Festival laureates and diploma-winners that the number of places the Festival participants and guests had come from was growing from year to year, the quality of  submitted  works was improving, the competition among participants was growing as well. Many winners of the "Golden Drum" Festival had come to Khanty-Mansiysk before and taken away the Golden Goddess.

The  Expert Council recommended 110 programs and films to  the Festival  Jury to   view and assess.  80 nominees were announced the finalists of the contest. The laureates of the "Golden Drum" Festival were awarded with statuettes of the Golden Goddess - the Festival symbol and diploma-winners were awarded with memorable medals this year for the first time.

In the nomination "Ethnography and Travels" the Laureate was the film "Salve Moravia" by the film director and script-writer Monika Rykhlikova and Brzhetislav Rykhlik (PLUM PRODUCTION, Brno, Czech Republic).

In the nomination "Documnetary"

 The film "Ermakov’s Swans" by the film director Valeri Mogilatov (JSC "Film company "Strana", Yekaterinburg) became the laureate and was awarded with the Golden Goddess.

In the nomination "Hostory and culture" two winners: film "Unusual adventures of Diego, son of Diego in the Bolsheviks’ country. Russian print" by Natalia Nazarova (JSC "Center of National Film", Moscow) and documentary "A Magician’s Autumn" by film directors Ruben Gevorkyants and Vae Gevorkyants (Film studios "Pite"  and "Aik "Charm Holding", Erevan, Armenia).

Two Goddesses this year were given in the nomination "TV Debut" to the film "Bag" by Artur Videnmeyer (Moscow) and documentary "Return of Memory" by Oleg Chernyak (Minsk, Byelorussia).

In the nomination "National character" the best was the film "Ada’s Gallery" by film director and script-writer Vladimir Kolas (FILM STUDIO "EVEREST", Lodz, Poland).

The film "Edged by the Horizon" by cameraman and composer Svetlana Bakushina (Novosibirsk) was the winner in the nomination "Art-video".

The program "Govorun-show" by Pavel Suvorov (TV and radio company "Ugra", Khanty-Mansiysk) was the winner in the nomination "Before 16 and older".

The best in the nomination "Film director" was the film by Viktor Naymushin in the short-length film "Opanki" ("Media-Alliance, Perm).

 In the nomination "Script-writer" the laureate was Alexander Slavin for the documentary "The last heroes. The truth about Stakhanovites " ("Studio "Ktylia", Zhukovski).

In the nomination "Cameraman" the best was Alexei Datskevich for the film "Eremakov’s Swans" (JSC "Film company "Strana", Yekaterinburg).

Arseni Troitski and Konstantin Shmyrev with the film "Podnebesye" (Film studio "KRIK", Moscow) was the laureate in the nomination "Sound producer".

The best TV  presenter was Pavel Lavrentiev - program "Narodnye novosti"  (Krasnodar).

The laureate in the nomination "TV design" was the program "New design of the channel" (Yekaterinburg).

The full-length film "Heart behind the bars" by film director Volga Nikolaichyk, Pavel Ratamki (Minsk, Byelorussia) was the best in the nomination "Publicist program".

The best TV portrait was made by Georgi Ananov in the full-length film "638 ways to kill Fidel Kastro" (Moscow).

In the nomination "News program" there was no laureate according to the  Jury’s  decision.

The film "Nomad school" by Michel Debats "LA GAPTIERE PRODUCTION SARL, France) was the laureate in the nomination "Documentary".

In the opinion of the students’ jury the winner of the Festival was the full-length documentary "Kiselev’s list" by Yuri Malyugin (Moscow). The prize of spectators’ sympathy was given to the short-length film "Cossack woman and odd fellow"  by Natalia Zelinskaya and Evgeni Khimchenko (Volgodonsk). The Jury’s special prize "For civil indifference" was given to Tofik Shakhverdiev for the documentary "My friend Yuri Khaschevatski" (Moscow).

The documentary "Kiselev’s List" by Yuri Malyugin (Moscow) was awarded with the Grand Prix of the XII International Festival of TV Programs and TV Films "Golden Drum".

This year 303 works of the Festival were submitted in 17 nominations (128 TV companies and studios from 65 towns and cities) of Russia, Armenia, Byelorussia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Kirgiz Republic. 110 programs and films were recommended for the jury to be assessed (70 companies  from 18 countries and republics). The total time keeping was 3042 minutes or 51 hours.