Clara Law’s drama “Like a Dream”, starring Daniel Wu (“Around the World in 80 Days”), screens at Melbourne International Film Festival. Shot in Mandarin on both sides of the Atlantic, the film has garnered 9 nominations at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Award, the most prestigious Chinese-language film awards. Persona handled all production in the U.S.

Alexander Galin’s new feature film, “The Casualty,” produced by Persona Films, will premier at the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival as part of the program “Contemporary Russian Cinema.” The screening will take place at the House of Cinema on June 23rd at 7:30pm.

Production starts on Pavel Lungin’s (“Taxi Blues”, “The Island”, “Tsar”) new documentary on the conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Shot by Yan Vizinberg, the film is supported by Mikhail Prokhorov’s (the new New Jersey Nets owner) Snob.ru.

Persona completes a promotional film for Bulova, one of the world’s leading watchmaking companies. The ten minute high-definition presentation reflecting the company’s slogan “Design and Style, Enhanced by Technology,” premiered this weekend at Baselworld Watch and Jewelry Show in Basel, Switzerland.

Persona takes part in the launch of Samsung’s Full HD 3D LED TV, featuring a secret performance by the Black Eyed Peas on New York’s Times Square. Shot in 3D with cameras provided by James Cameron’s PACE company (same cameras that were used for the production of “Avatar”), the event was presented by James Cameron himself.

Post-production starts on “Cargo”, a new action drama, starring Sayed Badreya (“Iron Man”, “Independence Day”, “The Insider”, “American East”) and Natasha Rinis (“The Prospects”). Directed by Yan Vizinberg, the film tells the story of a young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter, hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, who form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers’ plans.

New-York Historical Society presents a special screening of “Who Gets to Call It Art?” by award-winning producer-director Peter Rosen (shot by Yan Vizinberg) about the New York art world of the 1960s. A wild ride through the decade that created American contemporary art.

Sunday, January 24th
2:00pm-4:00pm

New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West at 77th Street
New York, NY 10024
212-873-3400

› 2010 ‹
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005

Subscribe to News