Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema Company has completed the development of the project of the feature film directed by Philip Sotnichenko "La Palisiada" with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund.
La Palisiada is a feature-length feature film in the post-Soviet noir genre, which unfolds in 1996 and covers the territory of Ukraine from west to the capital.
What is a Lapalisiada? This is one type of linguistic redundancy: a statement or remark, the meaning of which is outlined by a previous phrase bordering on absurdity. Lapalisiades create a comic effect in irrelevant tragic situations. A striking example of the lapalisiada is the film's slogan: "Two days before his death, he was alive."
Together with Philip Sotnichenko, the project is being co-authored by production director Volodymyr Usyk, producers Valery Sochivets and Sashko Chubko, production artists Margarita Kulyk and Vladimir Kuznetsov.
In preparation, the team wrote a full-length literary screenplay, auditioned, selected locations, and produced a presentation package to find funding and partners to create the film. You can now visit the project site http://lapalisiada.com, subscribe to the project pages on facebook and instagram and watch the teaser for the movie.
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Philip Sotnichenko - Ukrainian film director, member of the Ukrainian Film Academy, participant and winner of many Ukrainian and international film festivals: FIPRESCI Award winner at the OIFF in 2015 for his short film Son; the winner of the national competition of the Odessa Film Festival 2016 with the diploma film "Nail"; his film Nail was recognized as the best film of 2016 by the Bureau of Ukrainian Film Criticism and nominated for a Golden Jig by the Ukrainian Film Academy; in 2017 the winner of the anthropological film festival in Parnu in the Student International Film Competition; winner of the Tallinn Black Nights A-Class Festival - Sleepwalkers POFF Shorts 2017 with the feature film debut Technical Break; twice won the grand prize in the national competition of Lviv International Short Film Festival "WIZ-ART" in 2016 and 2017.
