The official ceremony to mark the opening of Industry was held at a school in the center of Moscow. Those who attended the party could sense a mysterious atmosphere of cinema created by students and teachers of the school. Everyone interested could take part in unique chamber performances involving guest stars and friends of Industry.
The director Fyodor Bondarchuk, Olga Paskina, CEO of NMG, as well as Mikhail Vrubel and Alexander Andryushchenko, producers of the Vodorod film company, wished the success to students and symbolically launched the work of the school.
The Industry School of Cinema and Television is the first educational institution established by leaders of the Russian film industry to bring up a new generation of talents The learning process at the school involves leading specialists in the film and TV industry, while its founders represent all stages of successful commercial content creation.
Teachers of the school include stars of the Russian film industry: a producer Pyotr Anurov, directors Egor Baranov and Kirill Serebrennikov, producers Sergey Selyanov, Timur Weinstein, and Anton Sirenko, a film critic Anton Dolin, script writers Alexey Kazakov, Oleg Malovichko, and Andrey Zolotaryov, directors of photography Mikhail Milashin and Maksim Osadchy.