History
STAR MEDIA GROUP
Head of the Board of Directors and Founder – producer Vlad Ryashin.
Star Media Group is one of the leaders in production and distribution of TV content in Russia and CIS.
Star Media Group has its own shooting floors, shooting equipment, pool of special transport and postproduction studios in Moscow (Russia), Kiev (Ukraine) and Astana (Kazakhstan). The Group’s production companies produce annually over 600 hours of telenovelas, primetime series, dozens of TV and theatrical movies.
As of 2012, Star Media’s library of rights comprised over 2,800 hours of content produced by the Group in various genres.
The series “Trouble in Store”, “Kotovsky”, “Sky on Fire”, “The River Wide”, “Spies Must Die!”, “In the Forests and Mountains”, “Thank You for Everything”, docudrama “The Great Patriotic War”, animated cycle “The History of the Russian State, TV feature films “The grass under Snow”, “Downsizing the Family”, “Anti-Sniper”, “Time to Be Happy” and many other products of the Group are invariably rated high on the leading TV channels in Russia and CIS.
In 2009 the series “The River Wide” and “Brothers” reached the top of the pop charts on Channel One and NTV channels in Russia, respectively. In 2010, TV movie “Rent-a-Mum” and series “I Won’t Give You Away” were among top 10 most rated projects on the central Russian TV channels.
And the musical “After Two Hares” was included in 25 most popular broadcasts of the last 10 years (from January 1st, 2000 until September 30, 2011) according to “Kommersant” newspaper, reaching 9th place.
Star Media Group actively develops production of full length theatrical films, including in co-production. Among its theatrical releases are the adventure comedy “O, Luckyman!” (2009), and the psychological thriller “The Weather Station” (2010, directed by Johnny O’Reilly). In 2011 the rights to “The Weather Station” were purchased by Hollywood studios for remake and distribution in the USA.
Based on the facilities of own 3D animation and graphics studio Babich-Design, the Group creates formats of historical animated cycles and docudramas unique in Russia and the CIS countries, which successfully compete with the best western educational and popular science programs. Such projects as “The Great Patriotic War” (broadcast by Channel One, Russia), “The History of the Russian State”, “Battle of Moscow”, “The Holy Baptism of Russia” (TV Center, Russia) and others among them. In 2009, Babich-Design became the only studio in CIS that was enlisted as one of the priority vendors of the graphics and 3D animation for BBC TV channels. In 2011, the docudrama “The Great Patriotic War” fully dubbed in English as “Soviet Strom” was released on the History channels (UK).
The Group successfully develops foreign sales of its content. The broadcast rights to Star Media content are purchased by TV channels from Eastern and Western Europe, China, Japan, the USA, Israel and Middle East countries and other regions.
Star Media products have been nominees for and winners of such prestigious international film festivals and awards as the AFI (USA), Monte Carlo Television Festival (Monaco), WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (USA), Seoul Int Drama Award (South Korea), International TV Festival Bar (Montenegro), TEFI (Russia), “The Golden Eagle” (Russia), “Spirit of Fire” (Russia), “Kinoshock” (Russia), the “Golden Chest” International Television Festival (Bulgaria), the Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” (Belarus), TV and Cinema Forum “Together” (Ukraine), an FSB (Federal Security Service of Russia) award, the Yuri Ozerov Wartime Film Festival (Russia), the “Golden Knight” International Film Festival (Russia) and many others.
