Justine Waddell

1. About Kino Klassika Foundation Kino Klassika creates programs of restorations, publications, art commissions and events to spotlight Russian language and Eastern cinema – a tradition that remains largely invisible to audiences in the West.

2. Our Story We spotlight the traditions of Eastern cinema and the remarkable stories behind their creation with ambitious programs a film concert of Eisenstein’s October with the London Symphony Orchestra and a coffee table book of Eisenstein’s drawings in collaboration with RGALI and Thames & Hudson publishers

3. Our Values 1 Preserving and restoring film materials makes them accessible to future generations of audiences and artists 5Unswerving editorial independence – we select contributors and projects purely on their artistic and intellectual value. 2We champion curatorial and research excellence to build bridges of understanding. 6We support engagement with film from all the territories that make up a part of the former Soviet Union. 3 Film re-animates digital and vice versa – we don’t believe film is dead. 7Commissioning artists to respond to, challenge and create new work based on the Russian tradition of film enriches all film traditions because education empowers creation. 4 We are an open forum and we aim to be transparent in our biases – offering up a self-reflective space where practitioners can come together to examine, watch, dispute and discuss films

4. Current Projects include Youth on the March! The Rise of the Soviet New is a film season hosted with London’s oldest cinema, the Regent St Cinema, which showcases the Soviet New Wave’s most exhilarating films from April to June 2018.

5. Future Projects include Kino Klassika partners with the Armenian Cinema Centre and filmmaker Daniel Bird to restore Sergei Parajanov’s documentary film HakobHovnatanyan (1967). Hakob was called the Raphael of Tiflis. In his short documentary film about him, Parajanov brings to dazzling life the artistic culture of Tbilisi in the 19th century.