celebrities shine on the red carpet at the new season festival opening

On the red carpet of the opening of the New Season festival were: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Stasya Miloslavskaya and Trifon Bebutov, Anna Banshchikova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Elena Lyadova, Lyubov Tolkalina, Lyubov Aksenova, Alena Mikhailova, Sofya Lebedeva, Anna Nevskaya, Vladimir Yaglych, Ruzil Minekaev with his wife Aziza, Slava Kopeikin and Yana Enzhaeva, Alexander Tsypkin and Oksana Lavrentyeva, Dmitry Lysenkov, Daniil Vorobyov, Ivan Dobronravov, Egor Koreshkov and Daria Avratinskaya, Mikhail Troynik, Vladimir Khotinenko and Tatyana Yakovleva, Roman Prygunov, Andrey Zolotarev, Mark Bogatyrev, Oleg Gaas and Margarita Abroskina, Anna Slyu, Ksenia Andrianova, Mikhail Weinberg and Anastasia Meskova, Anastasia Krasovskaya, Anastasia Ukolova, Svyatoslav Rogozhan and Mila Ershova, Svetlana Stepankovskaya, Vlad Tsenev, Elena Borshcheva and others.

text of the three ceremonies were generated by a neural network, framing the presentation of the competition program in a special way. The final karaoke number “Love” performed by the entire audience showed that we, people, still have the ability to defeat AI in the field of creating the right atmosphere, and perhaps the content itself. Actress Maria Tukhar and stand-up comedian Mikhail Kostretsov took part in the opening ceremony of the third online cinema festival “New Season”.

“In essence, the New Season is a festival of first episodes, a festival of “beginnings”. That’s why we decided to reflect this in the opening ceremony – to start the third festival three times. Only beginnings and no end!” shared the scriptwriter and director of the opening ceremony Andrey Valdberg. – We do not give everything to neural networks, we do not do something banal, justifying ourselves by saying that “artificial intelligence came up with this”. But we are trying to do something more with AI generations than strange videos and funny songs for social networks. We are trying to find directions in which we can already use this tool without feeling awkward.”

Guests of the third online cinema festival “New Season” were welcomed by the members of the Board of Trustees: Wink content director and Chairman of the Board of Trustees in 2024 Alexander Kosarim, KION creative director Ilya Burets, Okko general producer Gavriil Gordeev, Ivy’s deputy general director for content Ivan Grinin, PREMIER general producer David Kocharov, more.tv general director Dmitry Granov, festival director and producer Polina Zueva, as well as a representative of Kinopoisk – head of Plus Studio Mikhail Kitaev and a representative of START – producer Georgy Shabanov.

The first film in the competition program was Chelyuskin. The First (Wink). The series tells the story of a unique rescue operation in the Arctic in the 1930s. The project was presented by: Wink CEO Anton Volodkin, Wink Content Director Alexander Kosarim, General Producer and Showrunner Fyodor Bondarchuk, General Producer Dmitry Tabarchuk, Director Stepan Korshunov, actors Stasya Miloslavskaya and Alexander Loye.

“Artificial intelligence is not yet capable of creating love, and our film is a story about love, a story about the heroism and dedication of those people who 90 years ago set out for the Golden Fleece, to look for a new road to the eastern borders of the Motherland. And our film crew, just like the Chelyuskinites 90 years ago, in these past two years fought with snow, ice, frost, wind, and went through a path that was almost as difficult. I really want to invite viewers to this adventure,” said director Stepan Korshunov.

All participants, guests and spectators of the festival participate in voting for the films and series presented in the program in the “New Season” chatbot.