THERE MAY BE A FUTURE FILM DIRECTOR AMONG OUR GYMNASIA PUPILS.*

On June 6, the solemn rewarding of the winners of the "INTERFILMFEST", annually organized by the TV channel "Inter", was held at the cinema "Kinopanorama" in Kyiv.There was our gymnasia pupil among the awarded too.

The aim of the festival was to light new stars, to support talents, to find new ideas for formats, and to encourage cooperation of the InterMediaGroup with young TV people and cinematographers.

The works of the Festival participants were evaluated by Ukrainian and foreign masters, film industry professionals and television market. The chairman of the jury was Yegor Benckendorf, the CEO of the TV channel "Inter", the co-chair was Irena Rudina, an associate professor of Karpenko-Kary National University of Theatre, Film and Television, Kyiv. The jury viewed hundreds of works, and then selected the top 25 at first. Our gymnasia pupil Anton Yakovenko decided to try his hand and sent the film "Reflection", the script of which he had written by himself, he was also the film director and operator. He shot it with his iPhone. His classmates and friends were the actors. The work on the project was very difficult. As a result, the film won one of the main festival prizes, a statuette of "Interfilmfest 2014" and the Diploma of the author of the short-length film "Reflection" in the special category from NTN. The audience responded very emotionally to the work of the 15-year-old director. His film will be broadcast live on June 29, on the channel NTN.