Penza, 3 April 2014. PenzaNews. The closing ceremony of the third National Youth Festival “KinnoFest,” during which the participants directed short films about the most striking innovation projects of enterprises- participants of the clusters of the Penza region, was held in the Lermontov library on Thursday, April 3.

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The youth media-studios from Moscow, Izhevsk, St. Petersburg, Samara, Vladimir, Novosibirsk, Penza and Astrakhan used the projects of the representatives of IT, biomedical, glass and instrument-making clusters ato base their films on.

The representatives of cluster enterprises noted the high performance of work held together with students and as a thank you presented them with useful gifts for their future activities.

The head of Penza video-workshop of theater studio “302 BIS” Elena Lagutina noted high level of the festival organization.

According to her, the topic of the international symposium on art glass, which fell to the team's lot and which will soon take place in Nikolsk, the Penza region, was one of the most beautiful at the festival.

“I would like to boast that we have spent a whole day in Nikolsk, and all it was amazingly memorable. We were welcomed by the Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Fokin. We even visited his house. And, of course, we had a chance to observe the industrial process. About a dozen employees of the museum helped us — they showed us masterpieces aged over 200 years. And during the whole day we had a feeling that the entire museum and everything associated with Nikolsk glass industry revolved around our project,” Elena Lagutina commented.

In turn, the director of the Center of cluster development Mikhail Lyashkov noted that the participants had a difficult task — during one day of work, to put in a three-minute film everything that was created over the centuries.

“I think they have coped with this task, and the material that they filmed will be enough for more that just one feature film. We will use it, and we invite everyone to our symposium in May, it is a unique event in a unique location,” he said.

A representative of biomedical cluster, the head of LLC “Parapharm” Dmitry Elistratov also noted the interest demonstrated by the students.

“I was very excited to be a part of this project, I also went and observed since it is very fascinating to work with creative people. The guys did great, and I was pleasantly surprised by the result of their work,” he said.

The Grand Prix winner of the III all-Russian youth festival of popular science film “KinnoFest” became Samara Internet TV channel “Moloko,” which presented the work on innovative equipment produced by LLC “Polet.”

Moscow team “Bifurcate studio” took the first place, the second went to the studio “Rodnik” from Novosibirsk. The third place was taken by the students of Penza media-studio “Spektr.”

According to the jury chairman, writer, director, producer, artistic director of the Russian Central Documentary Film Studio Vladimir Alenikov, the choice was not easy.

“I come to this festival for the third year in a row, and it is worth noting that the level of today's work is much higher than the last year. It amazes because these professional works, which do not look amateur, were done in an incredibly short time. Professional studio takes a month and a half for this kind of work, but here it was done in two days. In addition, it is striking that it was made by very young people, and the task was very complicated — both the creators and the members of the jury had a lot to rack their brains,” Vladimir Alenikov noted.

As the deputy chairman of the government of the Penza region Valery Bespalov said, the purpose of the festival “KinnoFest” is to involve the maximum number of young people in active innovations.

“It is pleasing that our film festival devoted to the topic of one innovation is also a great educational problem — we tell people that there is innovative business that it is real, and we show the young people their career opportunities. This is the story of success, what we lack in life today are the stories of people who have achieved everything through their oun labor,” he said.

According to the co-organizer of the event Irina Dulenina, all 10 films of the festival will be broadcasted by “Nano TV,” as well as posted on the website of innovators of the Penza region.

“In addition, each enterprise, which participated in the filming, will get their film for further use at corporate events and presentations,” she added.