Please join us for a screening of the film Electing Russia, followed by a discussion with filmmakers Yevgeny Gindilis and Kirill Rogov, moderated by Professor Timothy Frye.
Please follow the link to register: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/film-screening-discussion-electing-russia
The film Electing Russia depicts the failure of the political opposition to Vladimir Putin. It opens with the protest and consequent mass arrests that occurred on the honoring of Russia’s National Day on June 12, 2017. The youth are angry, but disorganized. The film’s two main characters are lawyer and anti-corruption activist Alexander Navalny and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak. They are both central figures in the opposition against Putin, but are portrayed in the films as fielding no true alternative political project. As noted by the Modern Times Review, Electing Russia is "an engaging and possibly disillusioning journey into the heart of a complex world."
The film was directed by Alexander Rastoguev, who tragically died in 2018 alongside two other colleagues in an armed ambush in the Central African Republic. He was working on a new film about the activities of a Russian mercenary group.
Running time: 90 minutes
Idea & script by Yevgeny Gindilis, Anatoly Golubovsky, Alexander Rastorguev, Kirill Rogov, Inna Tkachenko
Directed by Alexander Rastoguev
Produced by Simone Baumann & Yevgeny Gindilis
A Tvindie Film Production/ Saxonia Entertainment for ZDF/ARTE production
PANELISTS:
Yevgeny Gindilis is a graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts (1994) and has worked for television broadcast stations in the US and Russia. Beginning in 1998, he worked as producer and head of international projects for NTV-Profit. In 2004 he founded TVINDIE Film Production, and in 2009 became the Head of CentEast Moscow. In 2012 Gindilis became the executive director of the Red Square Screenings film market, and co-founded the Kinopoisk film market in 2016. Gindilis is a member of the European Film Academy, Russian National Oscar Commitee, and Kinosouyz. He was a jury member at the Warsaw FF 2014, Molodist FF 2014, Sofia FF 2017, Cottbus FF 2017, and Kinotavr Sochi Film Festival 2012 and 2018.
Kirill Rogov is well known as a political analyst in both Russia and the west, and is regularly quoted by The Economist, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He publishes columns and analyses in Forbes Russia, RBC, Vedomosti, Novaya Gazeta, Suddeutsche Zeitung, and Financial Times. From 2007 to 2015 Rogov was a senior researcher at the Academy for National Economy and Public Policy and at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy. In 2010-2011 he was deeply involved in creating a strategy for Russian economic development (“Strategy 2020. New Growth Model, New Social Policy”. Moscow. 2012) developed by prominent Russian economists and experts for the Russian government. In the 2010s, Rogov's research focused on problems of Russian political economy and political development, mass public opinion, and policies of authoritarionization. In 2014 and 2016 he edited two well-received reports on Russian political development in the 2010s. In 2016 he developed a course, “The Big Transition: Logics of Russian political history, 1985 – 1999,” for Open University. Currently, Rogov is a board member of the Liberal Mission Foundation, a partner at the INDEM Foundation (Foundation for Informational Democracy), a board member of the Levada-Center (a Russian independent public opinion research centre), and a member of the Council on Defence and Foreign Relations.
