VII Moscow International Photo and Film Festival

VII Moscow International Photo and Film Festival «Golden Dolphin» 14-17 February 2008, «Gostiny Dvor»

Coming 2008 year is the 65 anniversary of the aqualung invention- that’s why it’s the great chance to remind about the well known French oceanographer- Jacques Ives Cousteau. This person have come to the world history as underwater research worker as great cinematographer who was awarded with many world gratuities. So there were 2 main topics in his life – the Sea and cinema. And the same points will be the next Art conception of the Festival «Golden Dolphin». Everything at the exhibition will look like video and photo shooting area.

Photo and Film Festival is the unique professional event in Russia which unites a lot of people from different kinds of photo and video industry. Photographers and cameramen, directors and producers, professionals, amateurs and everybody who likes underwater shooting-will meet here! Every year the audience composed of 23 000 people comes to the event to enjoy the best works of the well known Russian and world photographers and cameramen.

This year there will be the first exhibition named «Underwater rarity» - old underwater camera boxes surely have the keen interest from the auditory side. Everybody will wish to touch them or take a photo with it understanding that the old camera boxes exactly have their history or probably their mysteries.

For the first time at the Festival- the movie theater «Golden Dolphin» will turn into the «Hydroplanetarium» where the participated films are presented. The beauties of the underwater world will be imitated using audio-video visualization into the movie theater. This year the best Russian photographers will present their personally created Art Galleries- big size photos with different style shooting.

The General Partner – Sony Company will present its new video cameras, video equipment- class HD, organize master-classes, seminars and the testing-show in the 6 meters pool. The other leading photo-video companies will also present their news as cameras, u/w boxes as accessories at their personal booths. So everybody could consult with represented persons and buy necessary things there.

The official awarded ceremony will look like «Oscar» Awards - with its red stair-carpet and the huge Golden Dolphin statuettes. This year we have a TV version of it.

So in view of this new Art conception- we are happy to present our new media Partners which support the Photo and Film Festival. Welcome to the Golden Dolphin Moscow Dive Show!

Organizing Committee: 40/14, building 3.,Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya St., Moscow, 109004, Russia. Phone/ Fax: +7 (495) 234-94-65, +7 (495) 234-94-66 www.goldendolphin.ru

Contributed by Andrey Bizyukin added 2007-12-22