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On Wenesday 16 of October 2009 at 16:00 for the activities of the Study Circle on Documentary films

The Russian film director and journalist
OLGA KORNIENKO will present her documentaries on SHAMANISM, BEAR DANCE and CHILDHOOD among the SIBERIAN UGRO-FINNIC PEOPLE KHANTY

WEN 14.10.2009 at 16:00
Bulding of Musicology in Vironkatu 1, Hall 2B (Floor 2B)

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The entrance and the partecipation is FREE for all, feel free to invite other students or friends and to forward this message to them.

The meetings are opened also to researchers, teachers, in few words to all the interested.

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FILMS:

1. Master and Evdokia. 52 minutes.
In Khanty language. There are subtitles in English.

The master has been living in the Siberian backwoods. His name is Sergei Kechimov. His ancient shaman ancestors has bequeathed him a sacred trade (the Master could make tambourines). But the destiny gave him a lot of trouble including the loss of close people.
The 65-year old widow Evdokia was living on the other edge of the Siberian earth. She knew about the homeless man, married to him and
brought Master to her nomad camp.

The film is a symbol of the native people of Ugra. It was watched in Slovakia, Finland, Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin), Estonia, Hungary, and
many times in Russia. Its laureate of the highest Russian award TEFI 
region  2005, the winner of Grand-Prix of the International
Television Festival Finno-Ugric World, reiterated participant of the
authors demonstration (The Second International Museum Biannual
Exhibition in the Museum of Nature and Human, Khanty-Mansiysk, The
International Congress of the Finno-Ugric Writers, Khanty-Mansiysk etc.)


2. The Bear Dancing on Ob. 20 minutes.
In Khanty language with subtitles in English.

The most ancient rite of Khanty and Mansi  bear festival is presented in the maximal proximity to the reality. The film has been made in Khanty language with Russian and English subtitles for the festival of Finno-Ugric trades in Khanty-Mansiysk in June 2005. It was showed on the big screen of the Biathlon centre at the opening ceremony of the festival and its copies were called-for by the guests of the festival (the foreign ones also) for museums and libraries. It was presented during the authors meeting in the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Moscow, the film also widely used in the educational purposes.

3.Hello, Alyonka! 28 minutes.
In Khanty language with subtitles in English.

The heroes of the film are the members of a young family  the Kolyvanovs. They live on a nomad camp next to the Pim River near
Lyantor. Fedor has just found a job as an oilman (waterintake of
Lyamino), Larisa is a housewife.
The film tells us about a 3-year old Khanty girl discovering the world around her. She is preparing to enter the adults life helping her parents who live on the nomad camp. The absolute leader among ethnic films in Ugra, this film is watched in schools, at the seminars of the ethnic education, it is showed at the regional television broadcasts etc. Up to that Olga Kornienko read lectures in universities and other educational institutions in the Ugra region and in the whole Russia. This film has been presenting Ugra in Germany, Finland, Hungarian cultural centre in Moscow, it participated in the celebration of the Days of Surgut in Tobolsk.

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AFTER the Film prestentations there will be a DISCUSSION in RUSSIAN and ENGLISH on the contents of the film. ¨

The participant can freely ask questions to Olga Kornienko.

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OLGA KORNIENKO

Olga Kornienko has finished the Department of Journalism of the Kazan
State University and the Moscow Institute of Rising Qualification of Workers of Television and Broadcasting.

More than ten years she had been working in the television company
SurgutInformTV (Surgut, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug  Ugra) as an editor of theme programs. She had mainly covered life of the native
population of Ugra.

Since 2003 Olga Kornienko is a head of the Nonfiction Film Studio which works with three directions: ethnodocumentary films, educational and historical documentaries. She is the author of two serials and more than twenty films.
Olga Kornienko is a member of the International Academy of Television
and Radio. Since 2001 she has been making her films and working as a
camera operator.

Since September 2008 she is an associate professor, the lecturer of
language and literature department (chief  journalism) in Surgut State Pedagogical University.

She is the laureate of the International Television Festival Zolotoy Buben (for the film Living ahead, Khanty-Mansiysk), the participant
of the Festival of Television Films of Native Nations of the World in Finland (Turku, the film Nomad Camp on Tyuityach), the participant
of the International Television Forum INPUT  2003 (The television
as a target of societys interests) in Denmark (the film The
Treaty), the participant of the International project The window to
the mythological time. The Siberian shamanism of the XIX-XXI
centuries in Germany (Frankfurt, the films Master and Evdokia,
Hello, Alyonka!), the laureate of the highest prize of the Russian
television TEFI (for the film Master and Evdokia), the winner of
Grand-Prix of the XIIth International Television Festival The
Finno-Ugric World (Master and Evdokia). Olga Kornienko is the
participant and the winner of the awards of many Russian television
festivals.

The ethnic films made by her have been many times shown on the urban
and regional channels. They are the learners guides at seminars,
conferences and congresses where the members of the native population
of Ugra and Siberia take part.

Up to the ethnic and historical films and serials of Olga Kornienko they read lectures in the schools and universities, the films are called-for the libraries and museums of Ugra.

Olga Kornienko is a co-author of the artistic-journalistic edition:
By the way of the Landlady of Agan (together with the famous Nenets
poet and public figure Yuri Vella). She is the author of many publications about life and people of Ugra in the books, journals and other printed matter of Moscow, Finland, Ugra.


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