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Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova and Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova visited the All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S.A. Gerasimov (VGIK) on Knowledge Day. Together with them, students were congratulated on the beginning of the academic year by the General Director of Channel One Konstantin Ernst, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration for Public Projects Aleksandr Zhuravsky, Executive Director of the Cinema Fund Fyodor Sosnov and others.
VGIK, the only university with a full-cycle production training film studio that implements secondary vocational and higher education programs based on 8 faculties and a college, is celebrating its 105th anniversary.
The acting rector of VGIK Vladimir Malyshev conducted a tour of the university building for the guests. In the gallery of the art faculty “Kinograf”, the deputy prime minister, the head of the Ministry of Culture and the CEO of Channel One viewed an exhibition of diploma works of graduates of the art faculty. At the Institute of Animation and Digital Technologies, students talked about their projects. The guests also visited the set of an educational film in the pavilion of the camera department.
Tatyana Golikova noted that the Russian Government has increased the size of the annual personal scholarship named after S.S. Govorukhin. Now the top ten students of the directing department of VGIK will receive 15 thousand rubles each.
“On the instructions of the head of state, VGIK will receive a grant for diploma theses in the amount of 146 million rubles. Now 15 diploma theses can receive such assistance and be presented to the public,” the Deputy Prime Minister said. Financial support for the filming of diploma films applies to full-length, documentary and animated films.
The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that VGIK has always been with the country. And today its representatives capture important facts from the lives of the heroes of the special military operation. Students and teachers have made 12 films on the topic of the SVO. Students actively participate in the volunteer movement, and travel to different regions of the country with patriotic concerts.
“First-year students, you are absolutely lucky. I wish that your years of study at VGIK were among the happiest for you, that something truly talented would be born here despite all the difficulties and creative unions would appear. And for those who will soon graduate, I will say that you are sorely missed on film sets: both those who write wonderful texts and those who will produce ideas,” said the Minister of Culture.
The head of the Ministry of Culture signed an order to amend the VGIK charter, according to which the Institute of Animation and Digital Technologies, as well as the Research Institute of Cinematography and Film Education will appear in the structure of the university.
The Institute of Animation and Digital Technologies will train specialists in the field of digital arts using artificial intelligence and image generation using artificial neural networks. This year, the first recruitment for the new direction “Directing Interactive Media and Holography” has already taken place.
The Research Institute of Cinematography and Film Education will continue to study the development of the industry, as well as develop new methods of creative education. There are 36 scientific topics in the work, on which 13 specialists are working, the scientific journal “Vestnik VGIK” is published, in 2023 the first academic textbook in Russia on modern Russian cinema “History of Russian Cinema of the Post-Soviet Period” was published.
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