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PROJECTS OF LETSDOC PITCH 2022

LetsDOC Film Lab is a mentoring project for young documentary filmmakers: graduates and students of film studies, including journalism, as well as for more experienced film professionals. This is Russia's first documentary film laboratory, which not only works with film projects, but also gives their authors a chance to present their projects to Russian and foreign representatives of the film industry.
LetsDOC consists of two stages: the training in project development with Russian and foreign mentors and project pitching and rough-cut presentations to Russian and foreign experts (producers, sales-agents, representatives of funds, festivals, producing editors of TV channels and other representatives of film industry).

PROJECTS OF LETSDOC PITCH 2022
September 21 - 22, 2022

503. Dead Road

Director: Mariya Krasnoperova
Producer: Uliana Beletskaya
Estimated Running Time: 75 min.
Production Stage: development
Production Country: Russia
International Exposure: SiberiaDoc 2022

The convicted artists of the Gulag theatre return to their place of imprisonment, to the "dead road". We hear their voices-memories and see what is there in this place now. While on the journey, they again stage Twelve Months. The theatrical scene of this production is the modern city of Igarka with its inhabitants.

Are You Mental?

Director: Marina Nekrasova
Producer: Asya Ruchevskaya
Estimated Running Time: 85 min.
Production Stage: work-in-progress
Production Country: Russia
International Exposure: Gorky.Doc Pitching 2020, Baltic Sea Docs 2021, Artdocschool 2022

It all started when they were teens and it never stopped. To this day, compulsive thoughts and obsessive fears are plaguing their lives. But where do these thoughts come from? Is it still possible to overcome them? The documentary gives an insight into the nature of neurotic disorders in adolescents and shows the ways to handle them.

Children Under 21

Director: Katerina Zorina
Producer: Konstantin Peskichev
Editor: Vasily Anufriev
Estimated Running Time: 8 15 mins episods
Production Stage: rough-cut
Production Country: Russia
International Exposure: Gorky.Doc, Pitching of the Moscow Cinema House

This is a documentary series about Zoomers. Guys aged 20-21 now.
Zoomers are a generation “born with a phone in their hands”, which has no clue about free higher education, doesn’t believe TV and is obsessed with self-development.
This is a group portrait - from a school teacher to an artist of the Mariinsky Theatre, from a locksmith to a pick-up master.

Cryptoabkhazia

Director: Andrey Natotcinskiy
Producers: Yanna Buryak, Georgy Arzamasov
Estimated Running Time: 60 min.
Production Stage: черновой монтаж
Production Country: Russia

The word 'mining' is known in Abkhazia to pensioners, shepherds, the working class, and the unemployed. Cryptocurrency mining has become a national hobby and a kind of basic income for the population of one of UN’s 54 unrecognised countries which has become the hostage of a mysterious geopolitical game. Where some look for ways (often not very legal ones) to get as much as possible for themselves with as little loss as possible, others, by doing so, find themselves in an even more intolerable situation.

Hatira (memory)

Director: Ibraim Ganiev
Producer: Maksim Safonov
Estimated Running Time: 60 min.
Production Stage: development
Production Country: Russia

Oral testimonies of Crimean Tatars who survived deportation, tough life in places of exile and a difficult return to their homeland.

High Season

Director: Helena Poroshina
Producer: Helena Poroshina
Estimated Running Time: 60 min.
Production Stage: development
Production Country: Russia

A young designer sews a collection during the day and dreams of winning a fashion competition. An experienced plumber saves the city from accidents at night and dreams of meeting his love. It is the same person.

King of Tundra

Director: Alexander Krasnovsky
Producer: Sakhamin Trofimov
Estimated Running Time: 25 - 30 min.
Production Stage: work-in-progress
Production Country: Russia

For 20 years, Ruslan Sleptsov has been doing difficult and dangerous work in the Arctic. Completely isolated, he watches polar bears. Ruslan passes on his skills to his son and believes that their efforts are not in vain.

Life-changing Movies

Director: Nina Izotova
Producer: Pavel Pechenkin
Estimated Running Time: 70 min.
Production Stage: development
Production Country: Russia

This is a story about three juvenile criminals behind bars, where they participate at a film club. We watch them during their sentence and after their release, and through their stories it will become clear whether the cinema can give the right guidance and change the future of a teenager who once stumbled.

Me and My Hands

Director: Grisha Muzurov
Producer: Yana Yurysheva
Estimated Running Time: 60 min.
Production Stage: development
Production Country: Russia
International Exposure: St. Petersburg Pitching of Debutants, 2021

Grisha decides to change his right plastic prosthesis for a cool robotic hand. But to do this, he will not only have to make a journey through the bureaucratic world of hospitals and government agencies, but also, having to overcome fear, stop hiding his body from himself.

Pioneers of the Disco

Director: Daria Bolgova
Producer: Ekaterina Khomenko
Estimated Running Time: 80 min.
Production Stage: development
Production Country: Russia
International Exposure: Doctrain 2021, Umnoye Kino 2022

The first DJs of the Soviet Union dreamed of changing the world. For this purpose forty years ago they organized the first discos and became the creators of a new culture. They only had pirated copies of songs by Western artists and hand-assembled turntables. Now they call the 1980s "a hard time of struggle" or "a time of creative freedom". What actually happened at the first discos, how did their DJs live and what was the era of Disco in the USSR?

Playing House

Director: Alyona Bril
Estimated Running Time: 65 min
Production Stage: rough-cut
Production Country: Russia
International Exposure: ArtDocFest Pitching, Riga, 2019; scriptwriting workshop SiberiaDoc

At 17, I took the camera to get back at my mother for not loving me enough. After 10 years of filming, I saw myself and my mother in a different light.

Protest Territory

Director: Dmitrii Gulyaev
Producer: Marina Razbezhkina
Estimated Running Time: 80 min.
Production Stage: work-in-progress
Production Country: Russia
International Exposure: DOKER workshop

Defending her native land in front of a garbage dump, a 50-year-old toy store owner goes the way from a leader and a symbol of protest to an anti-hero tormented and exhausted by internecine struggle.

Ruslan Can

Director: Viktoriya Olkhovskaya
Producers: Viktoriya Olkhovskaya, Tigran Stepanyan
Estimated Running Time: 52 min.
Production Stage: rough-cut
Production Country: Russia

After the end of his amateur career in kickboxing, Ruslan, a two-time world champion wandering between his affairs and not finding meaning to his life, decides to make his debut in professional boxing in order to regain ground under his feet.

Valeshka

Director: Elena Demidova
Producer: Liza Antonova
Estimated Running Time: 80 min.
Production Stage: development
Production Country: Russia

Valeshka is the Sami name of Valentina Sovkina from the village of Lovozero. Her grandmother called her so. Little Valya was sent to a boarding school, then she studied in the city, worked and forgot not only her native language, but also her Sami name. Today she learns the language again, chairs the Sami women's forum and, together with other women, tries to find a balance between civilization and returning to her roots.

Zhivotyagin's Quest

Directors: Anastasia Shkitina, Andrew Gula
Producer: Anastasia Shkitina
Estimated Running Time: 60 min.
Production Stage: development
Production Country: Russia

The lonely elderly son of a peasant who underwent dekulakization goes to his father's homeland to restore the lost family history and find relatives.