Ivan Solovov

President of Mentor Cinema Cine Concern, script writer, film director, producer, member of European Film Academy, Russia's Merited Worker of Art (photo)

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Mentor Cinema Company was founded in 1988 and is now Russia's leader in film industry.
Mentor Cinema's films were made on commission of and supported by the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Government of Moscow, the Navy of the Russian Federation, Frontier Corps of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Education and other services.

"Mentor Cinema" is one of Russia's and Europe's biggest film production enterprises featuring high technology and European traditions.
Фильмы Кинокомпании "Ментор Синема " снимались по заказу и при поддержке Государственной Думы РФ, Правительства Москвы, Военно-Морского Флота РФ, Пограничной Службы РФ, Министерства образования РФ и др.

The Company has a unique in Russia technological base with a full cycle of film-making, be it proprietary or commissioned products, features or documentaries, serials, corporative products, commercials on any topic and meeting any high-technology challenge.

The engine of Mentor Cinema's success is expertise and professionalism of its management and the staff. The company's policy is to precisely and consistently observe our obligations before sponsors and partners.

Mentor Cinema's production is distributed through cinema theatres, central and regional tv channels of Russia, CIS countries and elsewhere abroad.

Mentor Cinema has expanded now and opened a unique film industry holding at the address: 105062, Moscow, Vorontsovo Pole, 11/32.

Mentor Cinema still retains its technological base at the address Pyatnitskaya Street, 3/4, building, home of "Cinemontage" Studio.

In the Company's new studio it is possible to coordinate the work of all sectors at once: through the central server, in any editing room you can open your content and work on a round-the-clock basis.

Preview theatres, too, are a new word, each theatre room equipped with a new generation projector. With the optical system it is possible to change the size of the screen - from 1m per 1 m to as big as the screen-wall.

In the DOLBY room - there is a unique station for the highest-quality recording and mixing, the resultant sound meeting the modern acoustics standards. All equipment in Mentor Cinema Concern is of the world class LUX.

The modernized Company makes it possible to perform annually the proprietary production at the number of 30 series films (12 episodes each) and 5 features. Alongside with this we can offer our equipment, production and post-production facilities to other studios appreciative of unique high-standard kind of service, which Mentor Cinema would gladly offer to you.

We want to specially mention the ideal location of the Company's premises - in the historical centre of Moscow, within Sadovoye Ring, famous for its highest business and cultural activity. The complex is situated in a 4-storeyed building.

 

The Structure of the Cine Concern "Mentor Cinema":

• Mentor Cinema Company

• Cine Montage Studio

• Art-Orion Film company (in St. Petersburg)

• Documentary Studio

• Animation Studio

Film Industry holding:

• Russia's only DOLBY- PREMIER STUDIO for post-production sound

• 5 sound studios on the basis of PROTOOLS

• 8 video editing complexes on the basis of AVID, making it possible to work with video signals of all formats, standard and HD.

• Preview theatre DOLBY DIGITAL with a unique mixing station

• Department of specialized vehicles

• Restaurant-club "Lumiere"

• Hotel complex (construction stage).

Services of the Cine Concern "Mentor Cinema" :

LEASE OF FILM-PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT (PRODUCTION):

•Operator's equipment: cameras, cranes

•Lighting equipment

•Sound equipment

LEASE OF EDITING AND TONE EQUIPMENT (POST PRODUCTION):

•Editing complex

•Sound complex

•Dolby Premier Studio for post-production sound

 

LEASE OF SPECIALIZED VEHICLES

Features:

Projects:	Directed by:	Production of:
In the Neck of the Woods 1991	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
Caravan of Death 1992	I Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
Executor of Sentence 1992	V. Shamshurin	Mentor Cinema Film Company
To Sleep with Someone Else's Wife, eh? 1992	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
Hot Spot 1998	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
The Black Ocean 1998	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
The Saint and the Sinner 2001	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
Avalanche 2001	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
Railway Romance 2003	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
There's a Brainwave Coming 2003	V. Buturlin	Mentor Cinema Film Company
Lyrics and Music 2005	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
You is Me, 2 parts 2006	E. Sokolov	Mentor Cinema Film Company
Tale of a Spring Draft	R. Novikova, Yu. Muzyka	Mentor Cinema Film Company
Paradise	R. Fruntov	Mentor Cinema Company, commissioned by Intra Communications and TV Channel KTK
The Sin (Ye Shall Not Sin)	B. Blank	Mentor Cinema Company, Graffiti Film Production
Father 2007	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Company, Studio F.A.F.

 

Documentaries:

"Autograd" (1994)

Trilogy about Yugoslavia:

• "The Face of Genocide" (1994)
• "The Storm in the Balkans" (1994)
• "Four C's" (1995)
• "The Border of Russ" (1995)
• "Fathom Thyself" (1995) and others

Sports-films-clips about the healthy way of life (made in collaboration with "World Class"):

• Yoga for Beginners
• Sculpting Your Boday

Films-clips for exhibitions (in collaboration with "Gamma" Company)

• Salvadore Dali: The Golden Age
• Goya "Anguish" and others

Serials:

Project	Directed by	Production of
The Eyes of Olga Korzh	O. Dobrova-Kulikova I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Company
My Frontier	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Company,
Hope is the One Leaving Last, 2004 E. Sokolov	E. Sokolov	Mentor Cinema Company, Commissioned by the Government of Moscow
A Place Under the Sun, 2004	A. Khamraev	"Kinoprom" Company in collaboration with Mentor Cinema
Only You…	N. Djordjadze	"Kinoprom" Company in collaboration with Mentor Cinema
Lads of Steel	M. Aliev	"Kinoprom" Company in collaboration with Mentor Cinema
The Obscure Perfect Man 2004-2005	A. Mateshko	Mentor Cinema Company in collaboration with "Ukrainian Media Group"
Special-Purpose Girlfriend 2004-2005	A. Mateshko	Mentor Cinema in collaboration with "Ukrainian Media Group"
Carousel	V. Nikiforov	"Kinoprom" Company in collaboration with "Cinemontage"
Lyrics and Music, 2005	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Company
Weaknesses of a Strong Woman, 8 episodes, 2006	B. Gorlov	Mentor Cinema Company
Picturesque Swindle, 2 episodes, 2007	V. Akhadov	Mentor Cinema Company
From I love you to I kokhayu, 8 episodes, 2007	N. Geiko	Mentor Cinema Company
Actors, 4 episodes, 2007	A. Khamraev	Mentor Cinema Company
The Seal of Solitude, 8 episodes, 2007	F. Abdullaev	Mentor Cinema Company
A Man With No Gun, 12 episodes, 2007	A. Chernykh	Mentor Cinema Company

 

In Production:

Project	Directed by	Production of:
The Elder Wife (working title)	I. Solovov	Mentor Cinema Company
Savva Morozov, melodrama, 4 episodes	O. Safaraliev	Mentor Cinema Company
Knock, Knock, it's Father Frost! comedy melodrama, 2 episodes	O. Subbotina	Mentor Cinema Company
Early Daybreak melodrama, 2 episodes	E. Ginzburg	Mentor Cinema Company
Mines in the Fairway comedy, 8 episodes	N. Geiko	Mentor Cinema Company
Threesome from Carronad Square film for children	V. Volkov	Mentor Cinema Company

International Projects

Triple Agent	Eric Rohmer	Russia , France, Italy, Spain, Greece
Twenty Nights, One Rainy Day	L. Lee	France