
- year : 2018
- country : Russia
- timing : 87:00'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Olga Arlauskas
written by Olga Arlauskas
produced by Nikita Tikhonov-Rau
DoPs Dmitriy Ivanov, Evgeniy Lopatkin, Sergey Petriga, Yulia Petrenko
sound by Evgenia Chevik, Anatoly Brandorf
editor Maya Danilevskaya
production company: ARTVIDEO Studio
“#I am a volunteer. The stories of empathic people” is the central film of the year about volunteers, real heroes of our time who usually stay unheralded. This is the film about the people who find time and strength to look for lost people, fight a fire, rebuild churches, save animals, help children and old people around Russia and in the whole world at no charge. Just because they feel other's sorrows. “#I am a volunteer. The stories of empathic people” is documentary feature film about volunteers made within the #Iamavolunteer media project.
- Film Festival "ZA!" (2019, Russia, Chelyabinsk)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Forum "Zolotoy Vityaz" (2019, Russia, Sevastopol)
- Annual Festival of Modern Art and Spiritual Films "Fresco", Special Nomination Laureate (2019, Armenia, Yerevan)
- Social Machinery Film Festival (2019, Italy, Rizzoni)
- Festival of Creativity and Marketing Communications "Silver Mercury", 3rd Place in the category "Social advertising and charity" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Nominee of the Industrial Television Award "TEFI" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Film Festival "Man Investigating the World" (2018, Russia, Kerch, Feodosia)
- International Film Festival "Rendezvous with Russia" (2019, Russia, Vologda)
- ZERO PLUS International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Tyumen)
- International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival "Meeting" (2020, Russia, Obninsk)
- Festival "Soulful Moscow" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian youth festival of cinema and Internet content "Heroes of the Big Country" (2021, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Olga Arlauskas was born on 18.07.1981.
In early childhood, she moved to Spain. After graduating from Boise State University, she worked as a scriptwriter and host of the program about theater arts at Radio Popular and as a screenwriter on Spanish television ETB-2. Also she was a director of several theater projects in Spain.
In 2004 she received a grant from the Spanish government and returned to Russia to study at Higher School of Scriptwriters and Film Directors (VKSR). After graduation in 2006 she has been actively co-operating with the biggest Russian TV-channels "The First Channel" and "Culture".
FILMOGRAPHY:
2018 - "#I Am A Volunteer. The Stories of Empathic People", documentary
2016 - "Hear me", documentary
2016 - "Lifework, People of the North", documentary
2014 - "Straightening Sigh", documentary
2014 - "Children of the State", documentary
2014 - "Sone In, Some Out", a documentary
2012 - "In Aut", a documentary
2011 - "Tattoo", documentary
2010 - "Being Together", documentary