Nikolay Nikitin

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Nikolaj Nikitin (born May 17, 1974 in Moscow ) is a German film curator, managing director and artistic director. He is the founder and head of the SOFA - School of Film Agents project , which he founded in 2013. He has also been the delegate for Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Eastern Europe at the Berlin International Film Festival since 2002 , and for Central Europe since 2007. From 1995 to 2010, Nikitin was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the film magazine Schnitt and from 2001 to 2016 artistic director and managing director of the Filmplus film festival , which is the only festival in the world dedicated to film editing .

Life

Nikolaj Nikitin was born in Moscow in 1974 as the son of the journalist and photographer Natalia Nikitin. He is the stepson of the media theorist and philosopher Boris Groys . The family moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981 . Nikolaj Nikitin studied film and television studies , art history and theater studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum and founded the film magazine " Schnitt " during his student years , of which he remained editor until 2010.

Together with Oliver Baumgarten he initiated in 2001, the forum for film editing and montage art, today's Film Festival Movie Plus in Cologne, which to this day the world's only festival devoted to the film montage dedicated. The festival awards prizes for the best editing of feature, documentary and short films as well as an honorary award.

Nikolaj Nikitin has been the delegate for Russia , Caucasus , Central Asia and Eastern Europe at the Berlin International Film Festival since 2002, and for Central Europe since 2007 . He is still a member of numerous international film festival juries and a member of the European Film Academy , FIPRESCI , the Association of German Film Critics , EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and teaches at universities and film schools in Germany and abroad. At the same time he worked as a film curator , for example for the Goethe-Institut and as artistic director for festivals such as the Palic European Film Festival or the Ostend Film Festival .

In 2013 he initiated an annual workshop with SOFA - School of Film Agents, aimed at young film brokers who develop new distribution channels for films in Central and Eastern Europe and strengthen cinema culture and film education in their home countries. The Serbian project Festival Box Office and the regional Romanian film funding Transilvania Film Fund developed successfully from the first SOFA years. Two SOFA workshops have been held annually since 2017 - one in Warsaw (project development) and one in Tbilisi (project marketing). A third workshop on project financing is currently in preparation.

Bibliography (selection)

as a publisher or editor
  • Nikolaj Nikitin (ed.): Editing - the film magazine. Bochum, Cologne: editing - the film publisher 1995-2010.
  • Studienkreis Film (ed.): The breath of death blows around them. Bochum: Schnitt Verlag 1998.
  • Kay Kirchmann: Stanley Kubrick. The silence of the pictures. Bochum: editing - the film publisher 2001.
  • Lars Henrik Gass: The placeless cinema. About Marguerite Duras. Bochum: editing - the film publisher 2001.
  • Nikolaj Nikitin (ed.): Film calendar 2001 - 2004. Marburg: Schüren Verlag. 2001 - 2004.
  • Peter Kremski: Surprising encounters of the short kind. Conversations about the short film. Cologne: Editing - the film publisher 2005.
  • Boris Groys: Groys recording. Philosophical thoughts on cinema. Cologne: Editing - the film publisher 2007.
  • Sascha Seiler (ed.): What happened so far. Serial storytelling on contemporary American television. Cologne: Editing - the film publisher 2008.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Vita. March 3, 2016, accessed March 3, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Filmplus. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Berlinale. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  4. ^ European Film Academy. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  5. ↑ FIPRESCI. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  6. ^ Association of German Film Critics. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  7. ↑ EAVE. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Goethe Institute. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  9. ^ Palic Film Festival. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  10. ^ Oostende Film Festival. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  11. ^ Festival Box Office , website
personal data
SURNAME Nikitin, Nikolaj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film curator, managing director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow