ORIGINAL+ announces the jury and shortlist for the "Innovation Nomination"

ORIGINAL+ program in the categories "Series" and "Show" will be traditionally evaluated by two professional juries. The first includes experts from the film industry, while the second includes media representatives and bloggers. In the new "Innovation nomination" of the festival, the winners will be chosen by experts in the field of movie technologies.

This year the chairman of the industrial jury is Julia Sumacheva, general producer of "White Media": "Every year not only the quantity but also the quality of original projects grows. The "Original+" program is proof of that. Every year the festival platform gathers the best works of Russian streaming services, demonstrating the skill level of their creators. "Original+" is a place for sharing experience and promoting new names in Russian cinema. Being on the jury of the festival is a great honor for me and, of course, a great responsibility. I'm sure we will have a difficult choice, because all the nominees are worthy of winning".

The jury team also includes:

• Anton Maslov, director, producer, screenwriter
• Konstantin Mankovsky, founder and general producer of Black Box Production
• Maxim Ostry, editor-in-chief of the "Bulletin of the Film Producer" publication
• Maxim Stoyanov, actor

The media jury team includes:

• Vadim Bogdanov, film critic of the publication "Rules of Life" and author of the telegram channel "Paterson's Diary"
• Maxim Ershov, film critic of the portal "KinoTV", author of the telegram channel "I saw the glow of the screen".
• Elena Trusova, journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of the Internet portal ProfiCinema
• Anonymous Telegram-channel Cinema About You.

Yulia Golubeva, Deputy General Director for Development of METMASH Film Factory, became the chairman of the jury in the "Nomination Innovation".

The short-list of the "Innovation Nomination" included:

Motion Capture technology

• The series "Plevako", directed by Anna Matison

AI technology (Artificial Intelligence in visual content production)

• Series "Peaceful Atom", directed by Yuri Yarushnikov
• The series "The Last Bogatyr. Legacy", directed by Anton Maslov
• Series "The Secrets of Karenina", directed by Ivan Yudin
• Short film "Art: Suvorov's Crossing of the Alps".

Virtual Production technology

• Film "Stars in Siberia", directed by Ilya Farfel
• Series "Chelyuskin. The First Ones", directed by Stepan Korshunov
• Film "Red Silk", directed by Andrei Volgin
• Film "The Wizard of the Emerald City. The Yellow Brick Road", directed by Igor Voloshin
• Film "Darling, I Will Never Call You Back Again", directed by Alexander Fomin