First Ukrainian Family Movie

A long-expected event in the cultural life of Ukraine – a presentation of the first Ukrainian musical feature film-tale for the whole family “The Cool Story” shot with the assistance of the State Cinematography Service of Ukraine and the Ministry for Culture of Estonia, to be held at the cultural center of KYIV Cinema (19, Chervonoarmiyska Str.) on Feb. 29, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.

Uniqueness of the film project. Some experts refer the movie to the “sleepers”, i.e. films that regardless of their low-budget may potentially arouse great interest of the public.

Film uniqueness includes:

First. This is the first Ukrainian film shot at rare for the world cinematography genre of eccentric musical tale for watching in family circle, which is considered to be the most difficult to make but the most public-welcome.

Second. This is a large international film project realized by producer Olena Fetisova (INTERFILM film studio, www.interfilm.biz) and Estonian co-producers, where the Ukrainian side for the first time in the history of the post-Soviet era of Ukrainian cinematography become the main creative and financial power and produced the film conforming to the world high-end standards.

Third. The movie is the double debut in the feature film cinematography of one of the most famous and uncommon Ukrainian directors-documentary film maker Roman Shirman and the composer Milosh Yelich - the arranger for the popular Ukrainian band “Okean Elzy”.

Four. The film features a great deal of original imagery particularly the collage of moving pictures, two- and three-dimensional animation and music.

Film plot. “The Cool Story” is a film for both, adults and children, where no parent will have to turn red covering their kids’ eyes and ears from time to time. This is an ironic and exciting tale involving romantic heroes, mean villains and desperate militarists. After the complicated and cool plot collisions the Military Minister will come to understand that it is nicer to save a human than to kill him/her; the princess will find her beloved, and the foul spy will get her comeuppance. All events of the film take place in the fairy-tale times. That means that the medieval knights will be armed with modern machine-guns, driving jeeps and communicating via sat-communications. The princess will participate in the beauty contest and the queen will admire watching TV-shows of her variety fetish.

Participants and guests of premiere. All visitors will get a chance to speak to the director Roman Shirman, general producer Olena Fetisova, composer Milosh Yelich, leading roles performers Georgiy Deliyev, Boris Barsky, Vladyslav Troyitsky, Olena Alymova, Denys Rodnyansky, Oksana Malashenkova, Olena Kozyr; and Estonian guests, and also you may visit the photo-exhibition “Everything was cool!!!” presenting the working moments of shooting, and listen to the wonderful music from the movie. Mrs. Kateryna Yuschenko and her children, Mr. Vasyl Vovkun, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mrs. Ganna Chmil, the head of cinematography service, Andriy Khalpakhchi, the director of Ukrainian Film Foundation, Meelis Muhu, the director of the Cinematography department under the Ministry for Culture of Estonia, Jaan Hein, the ambassador of Estonia in Ukraine, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Tina Karol and many others well-known guests are also expected to visit the premiere.

Attention all press and media-members who wish to be accredited for coverage of the premiere, please call: 8-067-209-72-88

The press-conference for the film premiere will take place on Feb. 29, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. to the address: 8/16, B. Khmelnitskogo Str., (“Teatralna” subway station) in the National Information Agency of UKRINFORM. Contact phone numbers: 244-90-47; 279-22-42.

The following people will participate in the conference: Ganna Chmil, the head of cinematography service; Meelis Muhu, the director of the Cinematography Department under the Ministry for Culture of Estonia; Olena Fetisova, the general producer and the director of INTERFILM film studio; Marianna Kaat, Estonian co-producer; director Roman Shirman; composer Milosh Yelich (member of Okean Elzy band); actors Georgiy Deliyev and Borys Barsky.