«Wake me up» 2016

Guillaume Protsenko

director

In 2016 Guillaume shot his debut feature movie – «Wake me up» which received a plenty of positive reviews by authoritative film critics and was awarded with a prize «The Best Music» at the International Film Festival «Kinotavr», a special prize at the Film festival «Stalker». Irina Verbitskaya was awarded as «Best actress (2017)» on the International Festival of the Russian Cinema in Marbella, Spain (MIRFF).

Andrey Stempkovsky

Screenwriter

Andrey Stempkovsky studied in Moscow in Government Financial Academy of Russia. After graduating Institute worked as a journalist and photographer in a number of the Moscow editions (Kommersant, «Poster», Playboy, Jealouse, GQ, «Person», «Brownie», Yes, NRG, etc.).

Vacheslav Durnenkov

Screenwriter

Vyacheslav Durnenkov is a playwright, the graphic artist. He lives and works in Togliatti, Russia. Vyacheslav is the author of more than 20 plays in collaboration with his brother Mikhail. His plays are published and translated into foreign languages; Moscow Art Theatre of Chekhov, Theater of Yermolova, stages plays. He took an active part in the international educational project «Class Act» for promoting dramatic art among teenagers. Winner of the awards «Golden Mask», «Characters», Texture festivals, «New drama». Now he works much for television.

John Crane

Director of photography

John Crane grew up on the Isle of Man (Great Britain). Studied literature and philosophy at the York University. Then studied cinema at the London’s Cinema School. He works as an operator of the director shot short feature, documentary and television films in Great Britain and other countries. His first fiction feature film «Black Bird» was nominated for the national Scottish award BAFTA. John participated in the project «Kinopoezd: Russian winter» 2013.

Giorgio Giampa

Compositor

Giorgio Giampa is a film composer from Italy. Movies with his participation were presented at film festivals in Toronto, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, San Sebastian and others. He worked on the Italian, German, Swedish, French, English, Austrian and other projects. He was nominated for the Italian Golden Globe and won The Best Soundtrack nomination at the 27th film festival in Salmona.

Igor Vdovin

Compositor

Igor Vdovin is a musician, the compositor, the founder (together with Sergey Shnurov) and the first soloist of group «Leningrad». He has been working successfully a lot as a DJ in Russian and European night clubs. Having been fond of electronic music, he recorded 5 albums together with the Messer Chups group, having in parallel released solo plates «Light music for millions» and Gamma. Writes music for cinema («Mermaid», Anna Melikyan’s «Star», «Garpastum» of Aleksei German, «Goddess: as I fell in love» with Renata Litvinova) and theatrical performances.

Alexey Lobanov

Artist director

Alexey Lobanov graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of theater majoring in the artist of puppet theater, then The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) as a director of documentary films. Now he works in theater as the art director and the costume designer. Issued performances according to V. Durnenkov, M. Durnenkov’s plays, brothers Presnyakov, P. Lutsyk and Samoryadova in theaters of Moscow Art Theatre of Chekhov, Theatre of the Nations, Taganka Theatre, Alexandrinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg). He repeatedly nominated for the theatrical award «Golden Mask».

Valeria Ryskina

costume designer

Valeria Ryskina graduated from the St. Petersburg Humanities University as a director of multimedia, further International school of Design, set of the designer, the costume designer in commercials, musical videos and film projects works in Fashion of the industry and film production as the stylist.

Bernadett Tusa-Ritter

editing director

Bernadett Tusa-Ritter – the Hungarian independent director in creative documentaries and a fiction. She studied direction and installation at the University of theater and motion picture arts in Budapest. In 2013 it worked as the director in the project «Kinopoezd: Russian winter» (2013) also got an award at a festival of the documentary Vision du Reel. Bernadett is a member of the Hungarian film academy.

Olga Grinshpun

Editing director

Olga Grinshpun since 1984 works as the editing director. Among directors with whom Olga Grinshpun, such significant names as Andrey Konchalovsky, Pavel Chukhrai, Egor Konchalovsky, Kirill Serebrennikov, Sergey Ursulyak worked. Olga was nominated for the award «Golden Eagle» (the best installation) for the movie «Peter FM» (2006). Diploma of the award «Emmie» for the movie by the director Andrey Konchalovsky «Odyssey» (USA).

Sergey Petrov

Film editor

Sergey Petrov graduated from director’s faculty of The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), faculty documentary films. Works as the film editor, prepares the director’s debut.