BRICS filmmakers to shoot movies in Russia

RUSSIA: Cities from westerns, remote villages, and streets of the Russian capital from the 40s to the present day. Over a thousand hectares have been allocated for the construction of film sets in Moscow.

The site may become the largest for location shooting in the world. It has already attracted foreign filmmakers. They come in whole groups, even in freezing temperatures.

Hani Abul Hassan Abdul Hamid Ahmed, Advisor to the Chairman for International Cooperation of the Egyptian Creative Media Cluster, said: “We built the Egyptian media production city 30 or 40 years ago and we had the experience before. So I said — I asked actually — the colleagues and the friends in the Moscow government for culture to sign a protocol to big cities in the same field should be cooperating and exchanging the expertise to do great and good and new productions.”

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Several international films are already scheduled to be shot in Moscow in 2025. Teams will come from Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, and Cameroon.

Yury Yarushnikov, CEO of Virtual Production Studio, noted: “We were talking to our Indian colleagues who were here at the film factory and they are just now thinking about moving two big projects from Bollywood to Moscow. These are big projects with big Indian stars, straight top three, and there is a high probability that they will move. Especially now Moscow is opening up a system of rebates, especially for the BRICS countries.”