Aleksey Fedorchenko
Alexei Stanislavovich Fedorchenko (Russian Алексей Станиславович Федорченко; born September 29, 1966 in Sol - Ilezk ) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Alexei Fedorchenko attended the Polytechnic Institute of the Urals in Sverdlovsk, where he studied at the faculties of engineering and business. After graduating in 1988, he worked as an engineer in a factory in Sverdlovsk. With the film Fedorchenko came into contact in 1990 when he got a job as a senior economist at the Sverdlovsk film studio founded in 1943. There he rose to in the next ten years as head of the production department of the film studios and was involved in the production of numerous films and news items.
Parallel to his work as a film and television producer Fedorchenko visited the Moscow Film WGIK, where he was trained from 1998 to screenwriters to 2000. He devoted himself from the late 1990s, the first film work. After the documentary, David (2002), which was produced in Stockholm, Sweden and Polish Lublin, 2003 Fedorchenko contributed the screenplay for Igor Voloshin's short film Ochota na Zaitsev at. The international breakthrough as a filmmaker succeeded in 2005 with his film debut First on the Moon ( Perwyje na Lune ). The fictional documentary about a Russian moon landing in 1938, received several international festival awards, including the documentary prize in the section Orizzonti the International Film Festival of Venice.
Followed in 2007 with Schelesnaja doroga Fedortschenkos second feature film. , Which falls between drama and comedy work introduced two friends in the center who steal a coal car of a railway museum in order to sell these later. Three years later Fedorchenko received for the film Silent Souls (2010; Russian Title: Owsjanki ) again an invitation to the film festival in Venice, this time in the competition for the Golden Lion. The story of two men who commit a custom of the Finno-Ugric people of the Merja accordance with the ritual burial of a woman, found favor with critics. Silent Souls was touted as one of the co-favorites for the grand prize and won, among others, the FIPRESCI Prize and the award for best cinematography.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
Cottbus Film Festival
- 2005: Special Award and Prize for the best first work of the student jury for Pervye na Lune
Ghent International Film Festival
- 2005: nominated for the Grand Prix for Pervye na Lune
Open Russian Film Festival Kinotaur
- 2005: Best Debut Film and price of the Association of Russian film scholar and critic for Pervye na Lune
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
- 2011: Best Director for silence souls
International Film Festival of Venice
- 2005: Documentary Award of the Section Orizzonti for Pervye na Lune
- 2010: FIPRESCI Prize, Premio Padre Nazareno Taddei and nominated for the Golden Lion for Ovsyanki
International Film Festival Warsaw
- 2005: Honorable mention for Pervye na Lune