Extraterrestrial, a film of a Russian-Ukrainian company Star Media received one of the highest honors and a grand prix award at the 41st Worldfest Houston independent film festival.

The festival’s director Hunter Todd said that the film received high jury assessment and generated great interested on the part of the audience.

The film is based on true events. Even though the film is not a documentary, the storyline incorporated actual events that have taken place in the town of Kishtim, Chelyabinsk region, Russia, in 1996. The local people discovered mummified remains of an unusual humanoid creature.  The literary work of writer Yuriy Golichenko also was used to develop the script. The motion picture’s director is Sergei Krutin. The actors include Sergei Batalov, Yuriy Stepanov, Lina Budnik, Vitaliy Linetskiy, and Larisa Shahvorostova.

In 2007, at the 32nd International Television Festival in Bulgaria, Extraterrestrial received an award for the best work of the director.

Vlad Riashyn, chairman of the board of directors of Star Media was not able to come to Houston for the gala presentation to receive the company’s award – a Remi statuette. On behalf of the president of Worldfest, the prize was hand-delivered to Star Media’s executives in Kiev by the leader of the Spiritual Diplomacy Foundation Mikhail Morgulis.

Star Media is a Russian-Ukrainian group of companies, whose main activities are production and distribution of television novels, television series, movies, and television programs.

Star Media Group takes the leading position in the TV and film production on the Russian and Ukrainian media markets.

The company’s copyrighted works total more than fifteen hundred hours of finished films of different genres including military drama, suspense action, melodrama, family, and comedy.  Star Media also works in the field of 3-D animation technologies. The company’s animations of such historical projects as The Battle of Moscow and The History of the Russian State turned out to be not only successful ventures in and of themselves, but also have shown the industry a new animation standard for the television market.

Several international projects are presently in the stage of development. These include The History of Great Britain, The Viking Conquest, and Borodino.

Star Media Group doesn’t focus only on the television format. This year, the company will release to the big screens its first full-length feature film The Lucky One. The company is going to produce three to four new feature films for both the C.I.S. and the foreign media markets next year.

Star Media’s partners include the largest Russian TV channels, such as Channel One, NTV, Russia, TV Center, as well as the best Ukrainian networks 1+1, Inter, Noviy kanal, STB, ICTV, Channel Ukraine. 

Star Media successfully cooperates with international partners such as BBC, Disney, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Buenavista/Disney, CBS Paramount, Telemundo/NBC Universal, FremantleMedia, Televisa Internacional, CME, Granada International, and Reveille.

Additionally, the company provides a number of other services including development and production of television design, special effects, and content for mobile TV.

The Star Media group of companies is a young, dynamic, and creative company open for cooperation and can become your reliable partner showing the way to success on a rapidly-developing television and film market of the C.I.S. countries.

Contact information:

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Kiev, 02002 Ukraine

Tel./fax: +38 (044) 390 50 60

P.O. Box 21, Kiev-2, 02002

info@starmediafilm.ru

http://www.starmedia.ua