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Sergei Sozanovsky shared plans for the near and distant future of FILM.UA Group. "Game of Thrones", "Eskimoska", "The history of criminalistics"

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• 10.09.2013

Production company FILM.UA will produce "The history of criminalistics" for "Ukraine" channel. The owner of FILM.UA Group Sergei Sozanovsky shared his plans with Telekritika.

According to him, company started its development a long time ago, and now the agreement is being finalized.  

"The history of criminalistics” is a joint project of FILM.UA and Signal Red in the genre of docudrama which tells the story of the most complicated crimes that were committed in different time periods in different countries. The film talks about how the methods of criminalitstic identification such as fingerprinting and odorology were created, the methods of deduction or induction, and laws that govern today's legal expertise. In the film there will be many historical reconstructions of famous investigations which have become part of criminalistics world history, realized with the help of special effects and 3D graphics.

Mr. Sozanovsky also said that the production has a number of agreements on new TV projects, but for what channels they’ll be produced is still a secret.

In addition, FILM.UA with HanzhonkovFilm will produce a second season of 3D-animated series "Eskimoska" (Eskimo girl).

"We’ll try to do the second season of "Eskimoska" with our partners. We will try to improve the quality and technological level of the project. And the idea is very good, we believe in it, and therefore we agreed on the co-production", - he said.

Also, Mr. Sozanovsky said that FILM.UA should focus primarily on the production of TV series, docudramas and animation.

Recall that the first season of "Eskimoska" was created with the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency. Public funding was 7,663, 000 thousand hryvnia. HanzhonkovFilm was involved in its production. First episode was aired November 2012 on 1+1.

The series follows an adorable Eskimo Girl in her fun adventures set in the beautiful Arctic. Every day Eskimo Girl goes fishing to the Little Bay with her friends Egghead, Loogan and pet Deer.

FILM.UA also plans to shoot a TV series, similar to the American fantasy series "Game of Thrones”.

"It should be a fantastic story. The struggle for power, betrayal, sex, blood, money – that’s what audience needs, and that will certainly be popular. We are looking for a story like this", - he said.

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones. The series, set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos at the end of a decade-long summer, interweaves several plot lines. In Ukraine the series was aired on TET and 1+1. The series has been renewed for a fourth season, to air in 2014.