Kusturica說得對,""烏克蘭是南斯拉夫的翻版.""

還好有俄羅斯,希望美國為所欲為的時代慢慢會成為過去,成為一種歷史.

陳真

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Ukrainian film funder forced to resign
Screen Daily
5 March, 2014 | By Martin Blaney

International colleagues have expressed concern at the news that Kateryna Kopylova, head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency since December 2010, was forced to resign her post at the end of last week.


According to the Ukrainian news agency LB, the resignation had been tendered by Kopyleva “by mutual agreement”.

This development comes after the Maidan Square protestors took over Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and appointed actor Evgeny Nishchuk as the new Minister of Culture.

Since then, the various professional associations have initiated an “open discussion” about the future of the Film Agency. A source in Kiev told ScreenDaily that the current situation is “a mess” with people bringing their own particular opinions and demands.

The Association of Producers of Ukraine (APU) was even forced to remove and distance itself from comments made by its CEO Denis Maslikov on it’s website.

The present vacuum at the Film Agency is also likely to pose a problems for productions which were expecting production funding to be paid out for shoots scheduled this year.

Question mark over Sevastopol festival

Political efforts to de-escalate tensions in the region will determine whether the international film festival in the Crimean port of Sevastopol will be affected.

Igor Gouskov, formerly one of the team at Vologda’s VOICES film festival for young European cinema, had told ScreenDaily during this year’s Berlinale that he will serve as programme director for the Sevastopol International Film Festival.

As the festival’s website indicated today (Wed), the 2014 edition is scheduled to run from Sept 19-24.

Kusturica supports Russian Ukrainians

Serbian film director Emir Kusturica has spoken out in support of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine during a tour of his band, The No Smoking Orchestra, in Russia.

Speaking to the ITAR-TASS news agency in the Volga region’s city of Samara, Kusturica said: “Unfortunately, Ukraine is following the Yugoslav scenario, and I regret it. I see the same kind of catastrophe. I think that Russia should protect ethnic Russians residing in Ukraine.”

During the concert when he spoke English and Russian, Kusturica and his band dedicated the famous military march Farewell of Slavianka by the Soviet conductor and composer Vasily Agapkin to “our Russian brothers in Ukraine”.