Yuri Grymov - biography and creativity

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Yuri Grymov is a Russian film and theater director, producer, screenwriter, artistic director of the Modern Theater and the Yug Studio. He is a member of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region and the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts "Nika". Awarded the title of academician of advertising. Awarded with the Presidential Prize of the Russian Federation and "Nika".

Biography

Yuri Grymov was born in Moscow. After school, he served in the artillery troops. After the army, he began working at the AZLK plant. In the fashion center called "Lux" showed clothes.

Since 1988 he has been working in the advertising business. During this activity, he created about 600 videos that received more than 70 prizes in the framework of international and Russian festivals. In 1988 he participated in the video "Margarita" by Valery Leontiev. In 1991 he became the founder of the production "Studio Yug".

Activities

In 1996, Yuri Grymov worked on the implementation of the election campaign "Vote or lose!" Boris Yeltsin. In 1996 he became the founder of the School of Cinema andtelevision. The project operated for 8 years, about 500 graduates received diplomas. In 1998 Yuri Grymov presented his first full-length feature film Mu-Mu.

Is a co-author of the monument "Victims of love and loneliness". The latter is installed in France, in the city of Honfleur. Since 1998, together with the Krestyanka publishing house, he has been creating the Look magazine. He is also the editor-in-chief of this project. In 1999 he staged the play Dali at the Vakhtangov Theatre. Between 2001 and 2004, he published Fakel magazine.

In 2003 he staged a performance called "Nirvana" on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater. The main role in it was played by Nike Borzov. In the period 2004 - 2007 he proved himself as the director of youth programs in the Federation of Internet Education. In 2005, he made a feature film called "Kukotsky's Case", consisting of 12 episodes. The plot of the picture is based on the novel of the same name by Lyudmila Ulitskaya.

This book won the Booker Prize in 2001. Since 2006, he has worked as a creative producer at MTS for more than three years. In 2007, he became the general producer of the Rambler TV channel. He acted as the publisher of the photo album "Better than simple." This project has brought together the best works of Yuri Grymov for fifteen years.

In 2009, he took the chair of the host of the television program "Big Fish", which aired live on the Russian channel A-One. Between 2010 and 2014, he was a member of the Council for State Cultural Policy. In 2010, on May 25, he began filming a children's film called "Year of the White Elephant". The plot was based on an unpublished play by LyudmilaUlitskaya.

The author in LiveJournal reported on the shooting. In 2010, he became the head of the jury in Minsk at a festival dedicated to mobile cinema. Previously, he represented Russia at a similar international project. In the period 2013-2014, he served as the general producer of the Dozhd TV channel. In 2015, he was one of the founders of the Rublev project, which combines an Orthodox search engine and a database.

In the period 2015-2016, he was the chief director of the Tsargrad TV channel. In 2015, he proposed to give the name of Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the Voykovskaya metro station. Since 2016, he has been the managing partner of the Slow TV Media channel group. He became the artistic director of the theater "Modern". The director's wife's name is Olga. He has a daughter, Antonina.

Filmography

Yuri Grymov, films are few, remembered and loved by the audience for the following works. In 1996, he participated in the creation of the painting "Male Revelations". Yuriy also worked on the following films: “Lessons from Anita Tsoi”, “Collector”, “Aliens”, “To the touch”, “Anna Karenina. Intimate diary”, “Three sisters”.

Stage

Yuri Grymov's performances are very popular. The actor participated in the production of "Dali" at the Vakhtangov Theatre. Worked on the play "Nirvana". The opera The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov appeared on the stage of the Moscow Novaya Opera Theater with his participation.

His performance “Flowers for Algernon” was staged at RAMT. Participated in the creation of the production of "The Lost World", which was presented at the cultural center "Moskvich".