The third content festival of streaming platforms Original+ ended in Moscow on February 29.
The event took place as part of the CSTB.PRO.MEDIA 2024 forum.
Awards were presented in 12 categories.
The presented projects were evaluated by cinema experts and media representatives.
The country's largest online platforms took part.
An important condition for admission to the festival was the release date: projects whose premiere was scheduled for March 1, 2024 were allowed to be shown.
“This is a very important festival for the young industry of original online content.
Now, when each platform is gradually beginning to show its own face, its own voice, unlike others, the festival provides an opportunity to track the process of changes taking place and compare the resulting result.
This is important for the professional community and interesting for viewers,” the Proficinema portal quotes the chairman of the jury and general director of Amedia Production Vadim Sokolovsky.
The main prize as the most original project went to the drama series “Infidels” of the Wink platform.
It tells about lawyer Olga Shilkovskaya, who suffers from alcoholism.
Because of her addiction, she loses her husband, and then her only son.
To improve her life, the heroine decides to return to divorce proceedings.
But saving yourself turns out to be more difficult than becoming a successful and famous lawyer.
The director was Alexey Kuzmin - Tarasov.
The roles were performed by Oksana Akinshina, Egor Druzhinin, Ivan Dobronravov, Roman Evdokimov, Nelly Uvarova, Alena Khmelnitskaya.
The digital release is set for March 7th.
The series also won an award for the original script and a special prize from the media jury “For a sober look at things.”
In the “Most Anticipated Project” category, the victory was won by the detective serial film “Kalimba” by the Okko online cinema about the ambitious psychiatrist Viktor Meshchersky, who conducts a risky experiment: he locks the victims and their abusers in the basement.
As the plot develops, viewers will learn the main motives of the hero, as well as the stories of each participant in the experiment.
The main role was played by Fyodor Bondarchuk, who received a prize for his work in the “Original Actor” category.
The series also stars Sergei Garmash, Alena Mikhailova, Sergei Goroshko, Yulia Volkova and others.
Directors include Oleg Kirichenko and Anastasia Melnikova.
© Still from the series “Infidels” (2024)
The award for “original actress” at the festival was given to Yulia Khlynina for her role as the major’s wife and career woman Anya in the dramedy “First Class.”
Her heroine is trying at all costs to get her child a place in the best school in St. Petersburg.
The project itself also did not go unnoticed: it received a special prize from Rossiyskaya Gazeta as a co-organizer of the festival.
Dmitry Nevzorov, who directed the comedy series “Uncle Lyosha” with Timofey Tribuntsev in the title role for KION, was recognized as the best director.
This is a film about a janitor who robs the houses of wealthy citizens at night.
He spends everything he managed to steal for the needs of the orphanage.
The comedy-drama film “The Intimate Life of the Konovalov Family,” which was produced by the PREMIER platform, received an award in the “Original Collaboration” category.
This is a series about spouses trying to save their marriage.
The project “Concert over the Volga” was awarded for an original experiment with content.
Dedication to the Russian province" from the platform "We're watching."
A special prize from the Guild of Casting Directors of Russia was awarded to the crime comedy “On Automatic” (Kinopoisk), directed by Boris Akopov, about two teenagers who decided to sell weapons found on the darknet and get easy money.
The leading actors Slava Kopeikin and Denis Kosikov also received a special prize for “Turbo Duet”.
The jury named “Date with a Trailer” from Rutube as the best show.