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Alexander Rodnyansky
Alexander Rodnyansky
Four-times Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner Alexander Rodnyansky is the prolific international producer of over 30 television series and 40 feature films, which have been selected by major international festivals from Cannes and Venice to Berlin and Toronto and won multiple awards, including six prizes of the Cannes film festival in different years.
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Nosorog
Directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky and Aliya Menygozhina
“Nosorog,” tells a contemporary story of Tamara, a distraught woman on a desperate search for her missing son in a small town consumed by violent riots. To help get her son back, she hires a shady detective, Brayuk, with unexpected consequences.
Once Within a Time
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
Produced by Steven Soderbergh, Alexander Rodnyansky and Michael Fitzgerald
Once Within a Time is a mesmerizing fantasy thriller from the incredible mind of Godfrey Reggio. The celebrated director returns after ten years with a new experimental film unlike any other from his already daring career: a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world and the beginning of a new one, tinged with apocalyptic comedy, rapturous cinematography, unforgettable vistas, and the innocence and hopes of a new generation. Score composed by Philip Glass.
Dissident
Co-directed by Andriy Alferov and Stas Gurenko
Produced by Oleksandr Omelyanov and Alexander Rodnyansky
The film follows the story of Oleg, a former UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought against the Soviet Union for Ukrainian independence during World War II) veteran who is released from a Soviet camp. He tries to live an ordinary life but quickly finds friends among former political prisoners and dissidents. He meets a prominent Ukrainian writer, who wants to write a novel about the UPA and asks Oleg for help, inspiring him to believe that change is possible in the Soviet Ukraine.
Adrift
Directed by Rory Kennedy
Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, Kevin Macdonald, and Rosanne Korenberg
With an estimated 35 million people currently displaced from their homes, the world now has more refugees than at any other time since World War II. While media reports thrive on sensationalism and populist politicians adopt fear-mongering campaigns, the lives of people fleeing deadly conflict hang in the balance. Without diminishing the extent of the crisis, Adrift contextualizes the debate around migration, highlighting the historical basis of the world’s engagement with refugees.
Leviathan (2014) by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cannes Film Festival
Winner
Best script
Golden Globe
Winner
Best foreign language film
Academy Award
Nomination
Best foreign language film
Loveless (2017) by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cannes Film Festival
Winner
Jury prize
Golden Globe
Nomination
Best foreign language film
Academy Award
Nomination
Best foreign language film
Beanpole (2019) by Kantemir Balagov
Cannes Film Festival
Winner
Un certain regard best director prize
Cannes Film Festival
Winner
Fipresci prize
Unclenching the Fists (2021) by Kira Kovalenko
Cannes Film Festival
Winner
Un certain regard best director prize
Elena (2011) by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cannes Film Festival
Winner
Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Winner
Best Performance by an Actress
Achievement in Directing
Mama, I am home (2021) by Vladimir Bitokov
Venice Film Festival
Orizzonti Extra program
Khan
Directed by Sergey Bodrov
Written by Chris Collins (Sons of Anarchy, Man in a High Castle)
Based on the book by Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
A young boy named Temujin rises from obscurity, hardship, and slavehood to become Khan of all Mongols — Genghis Khan. As he conquers and unites history’s largest contiguous empire, Khan struggles to govern his own family.
Red Rainbow
Directed by Andrij Parekh (Succession, Scenes from a Marriage, Watchmen)
In 1977, a Soviet bureaucrat mistakes a group of London-based gay rights activists for radical socialists, and invites them to the socialist utopia of the USSR— where homosexuality is punishable by 5 years in prison.
Occupation
Directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
A brutal drama about the war in Ukraine, based on a Peter Pomerantsev’s article for The Atlantic ‘We Can Only Be Enemies’. This is the story of one Ukrainian village that is forced to live under Russian occupation but never surrenders.
Debriefing the President
Based on the bestselling novel of John Nixon, starring Joel Kinnaman.
Based on the controversial best-seller by John Nixon, the first American to positively identify and interrogate Saddam Hussein after his capture, Debriefing The President is the story of one man’s quest for truth, one superpower’s ill-fated campaign of misguided revenge, and the Shakespearean tragedies that unfold between fathers and sons when nations are at stake.
Butterfly Jam
Written and directed by Kantemir Balagov
In a Newark-set Kabardian community, a 15-year-old champion wrestler must come to terms with the man his father is, and isn’t, after a life-altering event. Butterfly Jam will be the first English-language feature of celebrated director Kantemir Balagov (Tesnota, Beanpole).
The Roof
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The divorce of a Russian oligarch living in London proves to be the most expensive and among the more absurd in history. An epic fight for wealth, each other, and family.
Alexander began his career making documentaries before founding Ukraine’s first independent television network, 1+1, which became one of the major powers that shaped the new democratic Ukraine and launched future president’s Vladimir Zelensky’s television career.
He then moved to Russia, where he took the helm of Moscow-based US company CTC Media which grew from a one entertainment TV-channel into a NASDAQ-trading media-powerhouse worth $4 billion.
After leaving CTC Media in 2006, he stayed in Moscow and produced a slate of Russian, Ukrainian and international feature films.
In 2018 Rodnyansky launched his Los Angeles-based development banner AR Content.
Rodnyansky’s producing credits include Cloud Atlas by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, Where is Anne Frank by Ari Folman, Leviathan and Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev, Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov, Unclenching the Fists by Kira Kovalenko and other key works by some of the most acclaimed filmmakers.
In 2021 Alexander Rodnyansky signed a first-look deal with Apple TV+.
He is a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, European Film Academy and Asia-Pacific Film Academy.
About
Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content is a Los Angeles based development company designed to deliver premium quality content for film and television on an international scale. With a focus on true stories surrounding global events, or spotlighting diverse and relevant cultural conflicts, the company delves into fictional drama, genre films and documentaries.
ARC’s current slate of projects across various stages of development and production include the event limited series ‘Debriefing The President’ starring Joel Kinnaman, Dave Holstein’s controversial dramedy series ‘THE ROOF’, ‘KHAN’ by showrunner Chris Collins, Andrij Parekh’s limited series ‘Red Rainbow’, Rory Kennedy’s refugee documentary ‘Adrift’, along with ‘Butterfly Jam’ by Kantemir Balagov, ‘Occupation’ by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, among many others.
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Public anti-war position
From the first days of war, Alexander Rodnyansky publicly opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He gave multiple anti-war interviews to both film industry publications — Variety, Deadline and Screen International as well as international media.
Alexander Rodnyansky turned his personal Instagram account into an anti-war media outlet, documenting for his largely Russia-based audiences the atrocities of war in Ukraine, including the massacre of Bucha and other war crimes perpetrated by the Russian army.
For his public anti-war position the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu made a request to the Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova to eliminate “Rodnyansky from cultural agenda of Russia”. In a letter leaked to a Russian publication Insider, Rodnyansky was named alongside Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky.
A public pro-war group that lists “national traitors that pose threat to Russian interests” branded Alexander Rodnyansky as an “enemy” of the Russian state.
On October 21, 2022 Alexander Rodnyansky was declared to be a “foreign agent” by the Russian Ministry of Justice. A so-called “foreign agents” law, passed in 2012 and repeatedly expanded, allows the Justice Ministry to label groups or individuals “foreign agents,” exposing them to fines and harassment that stymie their work.
On May 17, 2023 the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested Rodnyansky in absentia in connection on the charges of “spreading fake news” about the Russian army. There had been no previous reports of a criminal case against Rodnyansky. According to the court’s press service, Rodnyansky, who is outside Russia, will be arrested once Russian authorities manage to detain him or to get him extradited.
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