Working Title: Wunderkind
Format: Documentary feature, 58 min.,
Digi Beta 16:9
Languages: English, Russian
Genre: Human interest, culture
Author & Director: Marianna Kaat
Original title: "Tööpealkiri: Imelaps"
Released: April 2012
Produced by: BALTIC FILM PRODUCTION
The life of a prodigy is fleeting, and is primarily driven by the
ambitions of the parents. In order to secure their son Alex Prior the name of the Great composer of the XXI century, Russian mother and English father work at full capacity on the fields of the musical business.
Original title: AUK № 8
Director MARIANNA KAAT
Cinematographer REIN KOTOV, ESC
Composer TIMO STEINER
Sound designer IVO FELT
Editor MAX GOLOMIDOV
Co-producer OLENA FETISOVA (Interfilm Production Studio)
Producer: MARIANNA KAAT
Produced by: BALTIC FILM PRODUCTION
Released: Aprill 2011
Supported by: MEDIA Development Program, Sundance Documentary Fund, Estonian Film Foundation, Estonian Ministry of Culture and Estonian Cultural Endowment
95 min, HD, 16:9, Stereo
Theme: feature, human interest
Lobotomy
Docmentary, 58 minutes
Format: DV/HDV 16:9
Director: Yury Khashchavatski
Producer: Marianna Kaat
Almost 20 years have passed from Tbilisi public rally suppression in 1989, and I’ve suddenly realized that today in Russia the society is already absolutely different, absolutely different people. Whence, there gradually emerged a cult of force, the KGB (FSB) that was hated not long time ago, suddenly became an «honor and conscience» of Russia, everywhere people damn the «black-assed», and to “rub them out in the outhouse” today is the Russian national idea. There is such sensation that all the one hundred and forty five millions of Russians had undergone a lobotomy – operation on a brain». How has it happened? What has happened? The film will try to answer these questions.
Kalinovski Square
Screen time: 58/73/87 minutes
Master-material: Digi Beta
Script&Director: Yury Khashchavatski
Producer: Marianna Kaat
Production company: Baltic Film Production
World sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH
A docu-comedy about life in Belarus before and after the President elections by Yury Khashchavatski
This film is the latest instalment in Belarus' most celebrated film director Yury Khashchavatski's long-standing and personally dangerous conflict with president Lukashenka. The title refers to the demonstrations on Kalinovski Square after the elections on 19 March 2006 where Lukashenka "created" his victory with almost 83% of the votes. With his astonishing material and ironic discourses Khashchavatski speaks out about resistance and persecution, displaying an overwhelming will for freedom. Director uses satire and cinematic idioms to give us a docu-comedy, we laugh because this is too much, it can't be true. But it is.
Russian Ballet is dead, long live Russian Ballet!
Documentary film about ardent fans’ outlook on the unique and world-famous Russian ballet.
Five ballet fans are under the hypnotic influence of the Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera and Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg. They have visited ballet performances for over half a century and were the witnesses and custodians of the triumph of the glorious past. But now they are forced to gaze at the ballerina's poor techniques and the general downfall of once-privileged Russian art.
This is a story about passion, immortality and elevation of spirits.
Master-material: Digi Beta
Script&Director: Yury Khashchavatski
Producer: Marianna Kaat
Production company: Baltic Film Production
World sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH
A docu-comedy about life in Belarus before and after the President elections by Yury Khashchavatski
This film is the latest instalment in Belarus' most celebrated film director Yury Khashchavatski's long-standing and personally dangerous conflict with president Lukashenka. The title refers to the demonstrations on Kalinovski Square after the elections on 19 March 2006 where Lukashenka "created" his victory with almost 83% of the votes. With his astonishing material and ironic discourses Khashchavatski speaks out about resistance and persecution, displaying an overwhelming will for freedom. Director uses satire and cinematic idioms to give us a docu-comedy, we laugh because this is too much, it can't be true. But it is.
The Last Phantoms
58 minuts, Digital Beta
Production company Baltic Film Production (Estonia)
Produced by Marianna Kaat and Reet Sokmann
Co-producers Alexander Vengerov/Oazis Ltd./Russia/
Pertti Veijalainen/Illume Ltd./Finland/
Cees van Ede/Nederlandse Programma
Stichting/ The Netherlands
Script & director Marianna Kaat
Cinematographer Alexander Dobrijanik
Sound Ivo Felt
Editing Kadri Kanter
Tuuli Kuitunen
Sound mix Aatomik Stuudiod
Special effects Produktsioonigrupp
Stills photographer Anastassia Zlatopolskaja
Documentary film about ardent fans’ outlook on the unique and world-famous Russian ballet.
Five ballet fans are under the hypnotic influence of the Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera and Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg. They have visited ballet performances for over half a century and were the witnesses and custodians of the triumph of the glorious past. But now they are forced to gaze at the ballerina's poor techniques and the general downfall of once-privileged Russian art.
This is a story about passion, immortality and elevation of spirits.
