Anton Mazurov
Anton Mazurov is an art-cinema curator, film historian, film critic, film distributor and lecturer. In the late 1990s he worked at the Russian State Central Cinema Museum as a programmer. As a film critic, he has published in such Russian magazines as Iskusstvo Kino, Video AS, Premier, OM, Menyu Udovolstviy, Total Film, Play, Itogi, Kinopark and such newspapers as Russian Telegraph, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Action!, Gazeta.Ru, YTRO.ru, Arthouse.ru, Vremya MN, Segodnya, Rolling Stone, etc. In 2000s he was Vice-President and Creative Director of the Russian distribution company Kino Bez Granits LLC (Cinema Without Borders) and its founder, the Swedish film company Maywin Media AB. He was one of the authors of the manifesto of the arthouse distribution in Russia "PROJECT 35", implemented since 2000 in the first arthouse movie theater 35MM in Moscow. In May 2009, Anton Mazurov together with Sergey Livnev founded the production and distribution art film company LeopART and the information portal KINOTE devoted to art cinema. In 2010-2011, he was Program Director of the contemporary art cinema festival "2morrow/Zavtra", founded by Ivan Dykhovichny. In 2012, together with producer Evgeny Gindilis, he held the first Russian international film fair Red Square Screenings (RSS) in partnership with the Russian Film Foundation and Marché du Film (Cannes). In January 2013, Anton Mazurov founded the international company ANT!PODE Sales & Distribution for the sale of worldwide film rights. After 6 years of work, in January 2019 he created a new international sales and distribution company Antidote Sales, which remains relevant to this day. As a lecturer, Anton Mazurov taught at the Moscow Branch of the New York Film Academy, lectured on the history and aesthetics of cinema at the Nekrasov Library in Moscow, gave a course of public lectures on the history of foreign non-fiction films in the series "History of the cinema eye: author's ways of documenting reality and the past" at the Moscow Documentary Film Center. Since 2023, together with Zara Abdullayeva, he has been teaching a university-wide special course on the history and aesthetics of Auteur cinema at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
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- Known For : Acting
- Birthday : 1968-11-21
- Place of Birth : Moscow, USSR
