International Animation Festival "Athens Animfest" will be held in Greece on March 16 - 22, 2017. Russian animation "The prince Vladimir's choice" by Anna Danilova and Gala Yunevskaya is included to it's the competition program. The film is distributed by CinePromo.
12th Athens Animfest received 350 films from more than 35 different countries.
The animation "The prince Vladimir's choice" was selected to the program of Film Festival "Meeting" in Russia. International premiere of the film will be held at "Athens Animfest".
Athens Animfest - organised by the European Animation Center, a non-for-profit organization, a non-governmental organization, that aims to bring the younger generation closer to the secrets and fascination of the art of animation and their diverse applications on the small and big screen, the multimedia, the Internet and education in general.
The Festival gives special emphasis to European animation films, regardless of techniques, themes, language, nationality and artists age, style and aesthetic trends thus demonstrating the common cultural heritage of the peoples of Europe.
THE PRINCE VLADIMIR CHOICE
2016, Russia, 27:46’
written by Pavel Voronin
directed by Anna Danilova, Gala Yunevskaya
produred by Anna Danilova
music Andrey Bystritskiy
song's author Katya Mielofonova
sound by Pavel Yudin
editor Anna Tynyanaya, Andrey Fateev
production designer Gala Yunevskaya
The film tells about the events preceding the baptism of Rus. The main characters are children. They find themselves in the pagan world and witness how Christianity was accepted. Together with The Great Prince Vladimir they are going to Korsun, and later to Constantinople. The final part of the film takes place in modern realities when a monument at Borovitskaya Square to the The Great Prince Vladimir was erected.
International Film Festival "Meeting" (2017, Russia, Obninsk)
Athens ANIMFEST (2017, Greece, Athens)