FORUM: Children’s & youth film project pitching session

The Tinderbox

Production company: Kamer-Ton-Film-Russia Ltd., Durimar Pictures Ltd.
Genre: Musical fairy tale
Countries: Russia
Estimated run time (min): 90
Director: Andjei Petras
Producers: Anastasia Razlogova, Andjei Petras
Stage of the project: Development
Estimated date of the project: 15/12/2020
Looking for: Co-production, Distribution, Sales agents, Broadcasters, Festivals, Funding, Other – Old European city as a setting, International casting, VFX partners
Target audience: 6 – 99

Logline

“The Tinderbox” is a musical fairy tale based on the work by Hans-Christian Andersen, with new magical heroes, mesmerizing puppet and computer animation, songs, and dance numbers. We create our own fairy tale and we live it!

About the director

Andjei Petras is a director and a scriptwriter, as well as a composer for cinema, theatre and television. Andjei also works as a producer. He has won awards for original music – Prize for Best Music at Love International Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA), film “Defenders of life” (dir. Dana Ziyasheva), Grand Prix of the festival FIPA (Biarritz, France) for original music, film “Franz+Polina” (dir. Mikhail Segal); National film critics award “White Elephant” (Russia) in the category “Best music”, film “Short Stories” (dir. Mikhail Segal) and others. Prizes for film “Paratrooper’s day” (scriptwriter, director, composer, producer Andjei Petras): Film Critic’s Prize the “Silver snow goggles” at I Yakutsk international film festival, Best film of the VII Moscow short film festival “Other Lands”, Nikolay Ovsyannikov Prize for creative support at the XXI International film festival “Festival of festivals” and others.

About the production company

Kamer-Ton-Film-Russia Ltd. was founded by Anastassia Razlogova in 2000. Main activity: production of feature films, production of documentary films, production of television programs (Russia Culture TV channel). Artistic Director of the Studio, Professor Kirill Razlogov, is a venerated film scholar and TV personality. General director of the Company – Anastasia Razlogova – Graduated the economic department of the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), Member of the Russian Documentary Film and Television Guild. Producer of fiction and documentary features, participants and prize-winners of Russian and International film festivals. Since 2001 producer of the popular weekly program “Cult Movies” on TV Channel “Russia-Culture”, devoted to classical and art-house cinema – the only program on Russian television that combines film screenings and conversations with the authors of these films and leading Russian and foreign filmmakers.