Dmitriy Rudovskiy
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Writer
Dmitriy Rudovskiy is a well-known Russian film and TV producer,
co-founder of Art Pictures Group company, director and journalist. Born
on December 4, 1962 in Moscow. In 1986 Dmitriy graduated from MSLU and
afterwards from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and directors
(A.Thorstensen and O. Korvyakov). In the following years Dmitriy held
different positions in media and TV production - he worked as editor of
the Main Department of Foreign Affairs (GUVS) USSR Radio and
Television; director of the program "Club kinoputeshestvennikov"
(Cinematravelers club); director of RGTRK "Ostankino" Studio of popular
scientific and educational programs and others. In 2006 Dmitriy
together with his partner Fedor Bondarchuk became the co-founders of
the recently reorganized Art Pictures Group company. In 2009 within Art
Pictures Group Dmitry Rudovsky founded distribution company Art
Pictures Media, which deals with theatrical, television and
DVD-distribution of Art Pictures Group films. So far Art Pictures Group
has released numerous successful projects and today the main area of
the company practice is film and TV-series production as well as
distribution. Rudovskiy's projects received plenty of awards. For
instance, animated film Christmas tree in 2006 was awarded with the
Grand Prix of National Festival of Visual Arts "for the development of
Russia's new animated children's hero image", as well as the prize for
"The best characters in children's animated films" at the International
festival of children's animated films. Produced by Art Pictures Group
in 2008 dilogy Inhabited island became the most discussed premieres of
2009. Movie earned $30 million and took the third place of the total
box office of CIS area in 2009. Horror film Phobos. Club of fear was
named the best domestic film in horror genre in 2010. Among the most
recent films produced by Dmitry Rudovskiy are the XIX Film Festival
"Window to Europe" in Vyborg Audience Choice Award winner film 2 days
by Dunya Smirnova; one of the most successful films of 2012
psycological drama Dukhless by Roman Prygunov and the absolute leader
of Russian box office in 2013 war drama Stalingrad directed by Fedor
Bondarchuk. Rudovskiy's future projects in 2014-2015 foresee production
of the cartoons Baba Yaga and Savva and release of the following films:
Queen of Spades by Pavel Lungin; Yes & Yes by Valeria G. Germanica;
Death's Battalion by Dmitriy Meskhiev and Dukhless sequel - Downshifter
by Roman Prygunov.
