The Presidential Library’s cinema club highlights World Wildlife Day

On March 5, 2020, at 16:00 the Presidential Library will host a cinema club meeting dedicated to World Wildlife Day. The films “Farewell to the actor” and “Virus M” will be watched and discussed at the meeting, raising significant issues of nature protection.

The author of the first of these films is Vasily Solkin, head of the public relations department of the Amur branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). This film is the result of 20 years of work by coastal animal operators and environmentalists who have been watching life in the wild of the rarest cat on the planet - the Far Eastern leopard. The wild cat, nicknamed Tolstoy, hails from the Kedrovaya Pad Reserve. He starred in the films of Russian, Japanese, Korean, German documentary filmmakers. But the first to discover his talent were employees of the Vladivostok Environmental Center “Call of the Taiga”. They created a special improvised set, where the bait lay, and Tolstoy came to it, as a rule, at night. In anticipation of the "actor", the operators stayed in a special shelter for many days and even weeks, in the heat and severe frost.

“What was he thinking about, sitting wearily on his rock? - the voice-over text sounds. “Did the “actor” understand that he devoted his great life to the great mission of reaching out to the consciousness of people on behalf of the Amur leopard tribe?”

The second film will be presented by the director of the All-Russian Ecological Film Festival “Meridian of Hope”, the director of the popular science film Natalya Ulachenko. The film "Virus M" became the winner of the film festival several years ago and is still relevant today. It is about the need for proper disposal of garbage. In large cities, tons of garbage are produced every day. How to solve this problem? One of the characters in the film says: “We are destroying ourselves. We don’t think about children...” This film, shot in Samara, shows that we can do a lot to preserve nature.

Among the co-organizers of the cinema club are the Lennauchfilm film studio, the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, the Russian Institute of Art History and the Youth Center of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.

The cinema club meeting will take place in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library at the address: Senate Square, 3 and will be broadcasted live on the library’s portal in Live broadcasts section, in the official group on the VKontakte social network and on the institution’s YouTube channel.

Regarding participation in the cinema club meeting please contact: (812) 305-16-35; +7 921 594-16-13 or e-mail: smolina@prlib.ru to Elena Smolina.

Accreditation of media representatives is until 15:00 March 4, 2020.

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached form to the email address: media@prlib.ru, pechnikova@prlib.ru Tatyana Pechnikova, tel. (812) 305-16-21, ext. 534; mob. +7 921 436-72-86.

The letter should contain the full name, name of the media, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact numbers.

We draw attention of media representatives that it is necessary to forward applications for accreditation and arrive at the event in advance.

Admission to the Presidential Library is possible only by prior registration and upon showing a passport: media representatives go through the entrance № 2; participants and guests of the event go through the entrance № 1.