Andrey Plakhov and Alexei Medvedev will become the directors of the festival "Message to the Man"

At the St. Petersburg Message to Man this year, changes in the team of selectors took place-film critic, honorary President of FIPSIS, Andrei Plakhov, will be an art director responsible for special programs and special consumption, and film critic and curator Alexei Medvedev will take the post of director of competitive programs.

This is written by the magazine "Session" . In addition, it is reported that Yevgeny Marchenko, who previously worked in the team of selectors of the main international competition “Message to Man”, will oversee the national competition of the festival.

“This year we want to not just update the competition, but to make one of the main ones from the peripheral event. She says. - In particular, this year we will introduce discussions after shows with spectators and invited experts for all films of the competition. ... It is also planned to limit the number of films in the competition up to 15 at the moment and we will give preference for the selection of young authors, focusing on debut work. ”

The festival of documentary, short, animated and experimental films “The Epistle to Man” has been held in St. Petersburg since 1989. Festival President is a film director and producer Alexei Teacher.

At the Message to Man festival, an international competition is held (documentary films up to 120 minutes, short game and animation up to 40 minutes), the National Competition of the Documentary films “Window to Russia” (up to 120 minutes), the international competition of experimental films in Silico (up to 15 minutes) and special programs.

About 3,000 applications are received annually, about a hundred films are included in the competitive program.