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RUSSIAN ANIMATION STUDIOS
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• RUSSIAN ANIMATED FILM
• ASSOCIATION (RAFA)
• www.animator.ru

Russian Animated Film Association (RAFA),
Dolgorukovskaya str, 25, Moscow, 127006 7 (495)
545 44 03 www.animator.ru aakr_at_animator.ru Preside
nt Popov Ilya CEO Mastusova Irina imastusova_at_gm
ail.com

• THE RUSSIAN ANIMATED FILM ASSOCIATION (RAFA) is
  Russias first and only professional organization
  established to lobby, support and promote the
  work of the Russian animation industry at both
  home and abroad. RAFA strives to create
  conditions for the effective development of
  Russian animation, including building
  relationships with foreign government agencies
  and producers in order to facilitate Russias
  participation in international co-productions
  under mutually beneficial terms. 
• The association represents the interests of
  animation studios of all sizes, as well as
  individual filmmakers working in animation,
  including independent directors, production
  designers, and animators. The association also
  includes organizations which have an involvement
  in animation TV networks with an interest in
  animation distribution companies and Internet
  companies essentially, all organizations whose
  business is related to the field of animation,
  and who are interested in joining forces.
• The association is active in the following main
  areas
• - Educational and informational campaigns
• - Collaboration with the professional community
• - Cooperation with government and commercial
  agencies
• - Further development of the industrys
  production infrastructure
• - The selling and licensing of animated content
• - Developing work in all these areas in the
  provinces

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AEROPLANE PRODUCTIONSwww.aeroprods.ru
Aeroplane Productions, 20/5, Marksistskaya st.,
Moscow, 109147 7 (495) 784 77 87
www.aeroprods.com ap_at_aeroprods.ru Director
general Vasilyev Georgy glv_at_nordost.ru

• AEROPLANE PRODUCTIONS, with its headquarters in
  Moscow, Russia, specializes in the production of
  cultural and commercial projects that feature
  high-quality animation. Aeroplane's mission is to
  produce projects that are not only profitable for
  the company's investors and stockholders, but
  that also educate, entertain, and motivate people
  to solve some of the urgent problems facing us
  today.
• Aeroplane Productions latest projects involve
  building and launching multi-platform brands for
  the international market that move beyond the
  borders of animation and into the spheres of
  computer games, feature films, Internet and
  mobile phone content, educational television
  programming, books, magazines, toys, and more.
• PROJECTS
• The Fixies animated series is the launching pad
  for the multi-platform project The Fixies, an
  animated brand designed for the international
  market. It's one of the fastest-developing
  projects in Russia, airing during prime time on
  the Russia 1 federal TV channel and attracting
  more than 7 million viewers a day
  (www.thefixies.com, www.fixiki.ru). 52 x 6'
  episodes will have been produced by the end of
  2012.
• Multi-Russia is a 45 x 1' series of animated
  postcards from the diverse regions, cities, and
  nationalities of the largest country on Earth.
  The series will be broadcast nationally on
  Channel One Russia as well as on various regional
  channels throughout the country. MULTI-RUSSIA is
  produced in the signature claymation style of
  Aeroplane Productions partner, Pilot Animation.
• Gem Mountain is a series of 52 x 13' episodes, a
  collection of animated folk tales drawn from and
  celebrating the diverse nationalities and
  cultures of Northern Eurasia. The series is
  coordinated by Aeroplane's founding partner,
  Pilot Animation Studios. Gem Mountain has already
  garnered numerous film festival prizes, including
  Russia's National Prize, The Golden Eagle, in
  2005.

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• ANIMACCORD
• ANIMATION STUDIO
• www.animaccord.com

Masha and the bear Ltd, 9/3, Godovikova Str.,
Moscow, 129085 7 (495) 775 13 31
www.animaccord.com info_at_animaccord.ru Executive
Director Loveiko Dmitry 7 [phone]

• ANIMACCORD ANIMATION STUDIO was founded in 2008
  to produce animation projects and digitally
  process visual data.
• The Animaccord Studio team have created and
  launched one of the most popular animation
  entertainment brands for kids, families, and
  adults Masha and the Bear.
• The principal activities of the studio involve
  the preparation and production of animation
  projects of any level of complexity using the
  studios technological capabilities.
• We work in the fields of classic animation, 3D
  animation, computer animation, and Motion Capture
  technology, which allows us to produce animated
  films, television animation, and computer game
  animation, in which there is a demand for vivid
  visual images.
• Our studio has its own powerful and highly
  efficient equipment and software, which allows it
  to produce computer graphics and special effects
  completely independently.

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• FUND GUBERNYA 
• www.masterfilm.ru

Fund Gubernya, 15-708, Drouzhinnikovskaya Str.,
Moscow, 123242 7 (495) 232 54 71
www.masterfilm.ru mail_at_masterfilm.ru General
Producer Gerasimov Alexander agerassimov_at_mail.ru

• FUND GUBERNYA is a part of the Master-Film
  holding company, which was established in 1996.
  Its one of the biggest and oldest companies in
  post-Soviet Russia. The holding consists of
  Master-Film Studio Movie Company, Master-Film
  Studio, and Fund Province. The Master-Film studio
  holdings main activity is animation production.
  Many of Master-Film Studios works have won
  prestigious awards at international and Russian
  festivals. The holding also organizes the Russian
  Open Animation Festival, www.suzdalfest.ru.
  Master-Film cooperates with many state, public,
  and noncommercial organizations in Russia with
  the aim of developing cultural relations in
  Russia and abroad.

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• MASTER-FILM STUDIO
• www.masterfilm.ru

Master-film Studio Ltd., 15-708,
Drouzhinnikovskaya Str., Moscow, 123242 7
(495) 232 54 71 www.masterfilm.ru mail_at_masterfilm
.ru General Producer Gerasimov Alexander
agerassimov_at_mail.ru

• MASTER-FILM is a holding company, which was
  established in 1996. Its one of the biggest and
  oldest companies in post-Soviet Russia. The
  holding consists of Master-Film Studio Movie
  Company, Master-Film Studio, and Fund Province.
• The Master-Film studio holdings main activity is
  animation production. Many of Master-Film
  Studios works have won prestigious awards at
  international and Russian festivals. The holding
  also organizes the Russian Open Animation
  Festival, www.suzdalfest.ru.
• An international congress is held as part of the
  Festival. The congress includes a new
  technologies and co-production forum, training
  sessions for animation industry specialists, an
  exchange of experience with foreign colleagues,
  and more. Master-Film cooperates with many state,
  public, and noncommercial organizations in Russia
  with the aim of developing cultural relations in
  Russia and abroad.

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• METRONOMEFILMS

Metronomefilms, 8, Selskohozyaistvennaya, Moscow,
129226 7 (499) 181 05 84 metronomefilms_at_gmail.c
om Producer Arsen Gottlieb Director general
Alexander Sharapanovsky Project coordinator
Liliya Galieva distribution.km_at_gmail.com

• METRONOMEFILMS is a Russian company engaged in
  the production of fiction and animated films.
• In 2005 Metronomefilms opened an animation
  branch, and has since been successfully engaged
  in the production of animated series like Lucky!
  (Vezuha.tv), World Lullabies (lull.ru), and All
  Year Long (god-kot.ru).
• Metronomefilms also produces art-house films,
  such as Life in a Few Words, As the New Year Was
  Born, and To See the Music. Films by
  Metronomefilms are shown at major film festivals
  worldwide and have won a lot of awards.
  Currently, Metronomefilms is working on the
  production of a new season of the animated series
  Lucky! and the full-length animated film
  Khottabych based on the book Starik Khottabych,
  by Lazar Lagin, one of the most popular
  childrens books in Russia. Our company works in
  the 2D technique, and we are beginning to develop
  3D technology. This year we will open a branch
  office in Ukraine.

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• THE RIKI GROUP
• www.riki-group.com

The Riki group, 34A, Petrogradskay emb.,
St-Petersburg, 197101 7 (812) 777 77 88
www.riki-group.ru info_at_rikimedia.ru CEO Popov
Ilya

• Built upon the phenomenal success of their
  original animated brand Smeshariki (sold
  internationally as Kikoriki), The Riki Group is a
  vertically integrated media holding that has
  become Russias leader in the development,
  production, distribution, licensing, and 360º
  brand management of multi-platform animation
  brands.
• Headquartered in St. Petersburg, The Riki Group
  employs a staff of over four hundred
  professionals working in animation and sound
  production, graphic and industrial design, print
  and internet publishing, interactive media
  production, game design, live event production,
  licensing and merchandising, and brand
  management.

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• THE ST. PETERSBURG
• COMPUTER ANIMATION STUDIO
• www.skapetersburg.ru

The Petersburg computer animation studio, 34A,
Petrogradskay emb., St-Petersburg, 197101 7
(495) 232 54 71 www.skapetersburg.ru info_at_smeshar
iki.ru Director Nadezhda Kuznetsova

• THE ST. PETERSBURG COMPUTER ANIMATION STUDIO
  in-house production facility employs directors,
  producers, screenwriters, artists, animators, 3D
  specialists, sound engineers, actors, and
  composers. Its productions for The Riki Group
  include high-quality animation for features,
  series, advertisements, and computer and video
  games. The studio has a cutting edge workflow
  using industry standard production tools.
• In addition to production, The St. Petersburg
  Computer Animation Studio also supports its own
  school, which trains animators, storyboard
  artists, directors, and screenwriters in the art
  of animation.
• The studio also offers full Russian dubbing
  services.

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• TOONBOX
• www.toonbox.ru

Toonbox, LLC., off. 4A, Bld. 10-7, Nizhnyaya
Syromyatnicheskaya str., Moscow, 105120 7 (495)
782 27 23 www.toonbox.ru p_at_toonbox.ru CEO
Muntyan Pavel 7 (963) 750 27 23

• TOONBOX was established by a company which is
  well known in the animation sphere, Multikov.net,
  as a separate department for the creation of
  animated films.
• Currently, Toonbox is one of the largest
  animation studios in Moscow. It constantly has
  three to six animated films in the pipeline,
  including government work and commercial series.
  The studio is also working on a number of content
  projects.
• The companys distinguishing feature is its work
  with the target audience and clear positioning of
  its products on the multimedia market, proper and
  structured video placement on the Internet, and
  its research of tendencies and world trends both
  online and offline.
• Within the last three years, Toonbox has earned
  popularity and trust among the worlds major
  brands, including Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab,
  Adobe, Ahmad, Nokia, and Danone. Over the three
  years of its existence, the studio has created
  more than 120 animated films with an overall
  timing of more than three hours of frame-by-frame
  and stop motion.
• Animation series the studio has worked on
  include The Real Adventures of Belka and
  Strelka, Shamans Quest, Three Acrobat Brothers,
  Qumi-Qumi, The Orange Cow, Fairy Tales,
  Shiska.TVF, ixies (2D animation only)
• Toonbox has won a great number of national and
  international awards, including the Grand Prix of
  the Multimatograph Festival, first place at the
  Suzdal Festival for the best work in the field of
  applied animation in 2010, first place at the
  Russian Flash Awards 2009, and the Grand Prix of
  the Vinnitsa Festival in 2008 in Ukraine.
• In 2010, Toonbox opened a school which trains
  animators under the direction of Alexander
  Dorogov (Walt Disney Studios). The school
  produces fifteen graduates each year, all of whom
  are qualified animators some of them are hired
  by the studio itself.
• The General Producer and founder of the studio is
  Pavel Muntyan. Pavel is CEO of Multikov.net (both
  the portal and the animation content aggregator),
  author of KOMS.ru (a conceptual animation
  project), and the official representative of the
  Masyanya project in Russia, the CIS, the Baltics,
  and Europe.
• The Art Director and co-founder of the studio is
  Vladimir Ponomaryov, a Disney-standard
  professional (according to several animation
  critics and directors). Vladimir is a student of
  Alexander Dorogov (Walt Disney Studios).

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• WIZART ANIMATION
• www.wizartanimation.com

Wizart animation, office 31, bld. 5, Altufevskoe
avenue, Moscow, 127106 7 (499) 201 21 62
www.wizartanimation.com hello_at_wizartanimation.com
Director general Nikolaev Vladimir
vn_at_wizartanimation.com

• WIZART ANIMATION is one of the fastest-growing
  computer animation studios in Russia.
• Wizarts main objective is to develop, produce,
  and distribute high-quality family animated
  feature films and animated series with a great
  combination of innovative computer technologies
  and brilliant, touching stories for children and
  adults who believe in miracles.
• The companys portfolio contains animation
  projects at various stages of production. Its
  main project for 2012 is the magic 3D
  stereoscopic story The Snow Queen (co-produced
  with Inlay Film). Also in production is the 3D
  stereoscopic animated feature film
  SheepnWolves, the 2D animated feature How to
  Catch a Feather of the Firebird (co-produced with
  Inlay Film and CTB Film Company, produced by
  RUSSOBIT-M), and several animated TV series
  currently in development that will be co-produced
  with international partners (Fairies and Wizards,
  Lost, Lucky Snails).

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