How does feel a man, who lost everything in his life? How can you be a teacher in elementary school, and paint graffiti by breaking into metro cars at night? How fast can you find your adventures if you are a Moscow biker?
How to fight stereotypes if you are an overweight model?
How to be normal in a crazy city?
Multimedia Documentary «Muscovites» consists of shorts about life of people who inhabit Moscow. The chief of children's hospital, 82 years old. Plus size model,26, who started off as a regular model, fighting with her weight, until she decides that weight is a key to success, broke up with a fiance, gained 60 pounds, and her career took off. A girl named Tanya, who works as a... robot. A former assistant to Minister of Culture, who became homeless. (This particular story has unexpected continuation, as after project's premier, Head of Department of Culture called, and we are now trying to find a worthy position for this hero of the series). Why did we decide to create this work as a multi-media project? Everything is inter-mixed here: high quality photography, videos (studio work, and that from mobile phone, animation). Not just photo-film, not just video-film, or animation - but all of them together.
IDEA, DIRECTOR: YULIA MELAMED
PHOTOGRAFER: KIRILL KALLINIKOV, VALERY MELNIKOV
EDITOR: IGOR KLYONOV, STAS RUSNAK
CAMERA: YULIA MELAMED, IGOR BELOGUROV, SERGEI LAVRUKHIN, EVGENY YUSTUZHENKOV
PROJECT MANAGER: YULIA BORYANKOVA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: ELENA BARYSHEVA, ALEXANDRA YAKOVLEVA
PHOTO DIRECTOR MOSCOW NEWS: OKSANA OLEINIK
PHOTO DIRECTOR RIA NOVOSTI: ANNA SHPAKOVA
DESIGN: GRIGIRY KRAVCHENKO
WEB DEVELOPMENT: ALEKSEI MAKSHIN, TATIANA LUPENKOVA, MIKHAIL MASLENNIKOV
EDITOR-IN-CHEIF OF "MOSCOW NEWS" ROSTISLAV VYLEGZHANIN
SPECIAL THANKS TO SVETLANA MIRONYUK AND OLGA KIZILOVA