Anton Mazurov

Anton Mazurov

Nacimiento : 1968-11-21, Moscow, USSR

Historia

Anton Mazurov (Moscow, Russia) is an art-cinema curator, film historian, film critic, film distributor and lecturer. He studied at the Moscow Medical Academy named after Sechenov. In 1998 he graduated from the film studies department of the scenario-film studies faculty of the Russian State University of Cinematography (workshop of L. Zaitseva and L. Mamatova). He worked at the Central Museum of Cinema as programmer, in Nezavisimaya Gazeta as a film critic, and as a screenwriter of the TV program This Film on Channel One. His articles were published in such magazines as Iskusstvo Kino, Video ASS, Premiere (Russia), OM, Menyu Udovolstviy, Total Film, Play, Itogi, Kinopark, in such newspapers as Russian Telegraph, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Action!, Gazeta.Ru, YTRO.ru, Arthouse.ru, Vremya MN, Segodnya, Rolling Stone, etc. In 1998-2000 - Director for PR and Advertising of the distribution company East-West Creative Commonwealth (currently — UIP). He was one of the authors of the manifesto of the arthouse distribution in Russia "PROJECT 35" (2000), implemented since 2000 in the firat arthouse theater 35 MM in Moscow. Since 2000 - Creative Director of the Russian film distribution company Cosmopol Film Distribution (Kino Bez Granits LLC). In 2004-2009 - Vice-President and Creative Director of the Russian distribution company Kino Bez Granits LLC and its founder — Swedish film company Maywin Media AB. In May 2009, Anton Mazurov together with Sergei Livnev founded the production and distribution art film company LeopART and the information portal KINOTE devoted to art cinema. In 2010-2011, he was Program Director of the contemporary art cinema festival 2morrow/Zavtra, founded by Ivan Dykhovichny. In 2012, Anton Mazurov together with producer Evgeny Gindilis dedicated himself to the creation and holding of the first Russian international film fair Red Square Screenings (RSS) in partnership with the Russian Film Foundation and Marche du film (Cannes). In January 2013, Anton Mazurov founded the international company ANT!PODE Sales & Distribution for the sale of worldwide film rights (the first package of the company included The Geographer Drank His Globe Away by Alexander Veledinsky, Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari by Alexei Fedorchenko (and future projects of the producer), The Atonement by Alexander Proshkin, Private Parts by Natalia Merkulova and Alexei Chupov). After 6 years of fruitful work, having exhausted the resource of the previous project ANT!PODE Sales & Distribution, in January 2019 Anton Mazurov created the international company Antidote Sales. The project has more opportunities for the distribution of films on the territory of the former USSR and is aimed at becoming the only Russian company dealing with the world full-length art cinema. Anton Mazurov is a lecturer at the Moscow Branch of the New York Film Academy, public lecturer on the film history and aesthetics at the Nekrasov Library in Moscow. At the same time, he is also working on the script of his own full-length live-action film. Since January 2014, he has been giving a course of public lectures on the history of foreign non-fiction films in the series "History of the cinema eye: author's ways of documenting reality and the past" at the Moscow Documentary Film Center.

Perfil

Anton Mazurov
Anton Mazurov

Películas

The Legend of Siegfried
The Legend of Siegfried
Himself (archive footage)
The film is about the long-term relationship between the director and the character of her first film, the French indie artist, musician and director Siegfried, known as Sig. The story is dedicated to the experience of growing up, emancipation and finding their own identity in life and in art. The film raises questions about the nature of the student-teacher relationship, which inevitably involves submission and conflict, and the nature of the director and hero relationship, which is based on love and a little manipulation.
Plankton Salesmen
Plankton Salesmen
Self
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the "Cinema Without Borders" company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.
Cinema: A Public Affair
Cinema: A Public Affair
Himself
A cineastic journey into the world of Naum Kleiman, one of the most important intellectuals in Russia today. Naum Kleiman, an internationally acclaimed Eisenstein specialist, is the director of the „Musey Kino“, Moscow’s museum of cinema. Since 1989, the „Musey Kino“, has shown previously banned classics of world cinema and Soviet films. Many saw the „Musey Kino“, as Moscow ́s most important intellectual forum. In 2005, the Moscow municipality sold the „Musey Kino’s“ building and it became homeless. In October 2014, the Russian Minister of Culture fired Naum Kleiman as director. In protest, his entire team handed in their resignations. Scenes from iconic movies and interviews with Muscovites of different ages and social backgrounds form a documentary film collage which mirrors Russian reality today.