Category Archives: Co-Productions

TV Channel broadcasted documentary filmed in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Singapore. TV Channel U broadcasted 45-min documentary Fixer S2线人2 – EP10 we had filmed with Singaporean crew in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.  This unusual account of the Dungans’ lifestyle caused curiosity and surprise among TV viewers in Singapore: this ethnic minority of Chinese Muslims settled in the-then Tsarist Russia about 140 years ago and still keep their traditions in the Dungan villages of the Central Asia. A […]

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Singapore TV Documentary on Dungans

April 29, 2018. The village of Tokmаk (74 km east of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan) …Our TV crew arrived too late. We missed a vital episode for our TV documentary: the unique traditional preparation for an ancient wedding ceremony was over. The star attraction of the episode WEDDING DAY ONE was 18-year-old Radziya Umarova […]

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German documentary: russian soul is still immortal

At last, I got the trailer (click to screen it) of a finished documentary by Andreas Schnoegl from Eikon Sudwest GMBH from Stuttgart, Germany about people around the world who try to reach immortality at all costs. The film will be aired on German TV, as well as hopefully worldwide and in Russia soon. I am glad, […]

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Mission In Moscow

Chinese police action. Staring Jacky Chan and / or Jet Li. Research & location scouting for pre-production was made in Moscow. See «Mission in Moscow» at SlideShare.net Director Ding Sheng (on the photos) in Moscow visiting the Russian Army Museum (click to see full size).

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RECLAMATION (ESTERDAD), Iranian War Drama Filmed & Screened In Moscow

We didn’t expect this production in Moscow could have been so complicated. After 8 weeks of hectic pre-production, in late-January 2012 the Iranian crew of 25 from Teheran-based Farabi Cinema Foundation arrived in Moscow – just in the most dramatic moment of their nation. It seemed US-Iranian military conflict was imminent: US aircraft carriers were […]

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