Dmitrii Frolov
Dmitri Alexeyevich Frolov is a Russian film director in independent experimental cinema and a director of photography. He has won several film awards.
Biography
Dmitry Frolov was born in Leningrad in 1966. In 1990 he graduated from the University of Cinema and Television. From the beginning of the 80s he was shooting author's cinema. A screenwriter, director and cameraman of more than 30 short films that took part in several dozen domestic ones and foreign festivals and the Biennale. Author of music videos for the group "Auktsion". The creator of the site about the Independent Cinema - a resource devoted to parallel, experimental, author's cinema, avant-garde. As an operator he co-operates with St. Petersburg film companies. He worked as the senior operator of the TV channel "100TV"He is one of the leaders of russian movieavanguard in postperestroika age. He makes esthetic experiments connecting with return to dumb cinema on new level of film language.
Laureate of the National Award "TEFI-2008" in the nomination "Operator of a TV film / series"
Filmography
Director's works
Films
- 1987 - Dream
- 1988 - The Way
- 1988 - Metamorphosis
- 1988 - Theater. Afterword
- 1989 - Act
- 1989 - Clownery
- 1990 - Without words
- 1990 - The Second Birth
- 1991 - KARA
- 1991 - Psycho Attack Over Soviets
- 1991 - The Leaving
- 1991 - Beekeeper
- 1990-1993 - The Big Moon Nights
- 1994 - Do not august, 1991
- 1994 - Stairway to the sky
- 1995 - Above the Lake
- 1995 - Underwater Guest
- 1996 - Das Es
- 1997 - Be Careful!
- 1997 - Ten minutes of silence
- 1998 - The Little Sotmaid
- 1999 - Rumba
- 2000 - Decease
- 2001 - The Granny's Apocrypha
- 2002 - Tango Nightingale
- 2002 - The Two
- 1991-2003 - Phantoms of white nights
- 2004 - The daddy's meat
- 2006 - Above the Lake
- 2010 - Wellspring
- 2010 - The Birth of Music
- 2010 - Conversation
- 2016 - The Lone
- 2017 - Last Love
- 2018 - Winter Will Not Be
- 2019 - Moonlight People
Video Clips
- 1991 -
- 1992 -
- 2000 -
- 2000 -
- 2000 -
- 2000 -
- 2000 -
- 2002 -
- 2002 -
- 2003 -
- 2017 -
Cinematographer
- 1993 - The Battle of Leningrad
- 1994 - The life and adventures of 4 friends
- 1994-1995 - A series of documentary reports about Timur Novikov and the New Academy of Fine Arts
- 1995 - The acceptance of fate
- 1996 - Presence
- 1996 - After 300 years
- 1998 - Courant
- 1999 - Artist Gleb Bogomolov
- 2000 - How "Brother-2" was shot
- 2000 - Nobody writes to the Colonel
- 2000 - The Wizard of our city
- 2000 - Ugar
- 2001 - Dark Night
- 2001 - Daughter of Albion
- 2001 - Fairy Tales
- 2002 - Song
- 2002 - Mozart. Fantasy in the cafe
- 2003 - "Adjacent Rooms"
- 2003 - Kira
- 2004 - Living in History
- 2004 - Children of corn
- 2004 - Merry plumber
- 2005 - Light in August
- 2005 - "School of Baba Yaga"
- 2007 - "The color of time"
- 2008 - "Children of the Siege"
- 2008 - "Autograph of Time"
- 2008 - "Hello, the land of heroes!"
- 2009 - "My contemporaries"
- 2009 - "For Home Viewing"
- 2010 - "Vasily Turkin. The book about the fighter "
- 2010 - "The Seasons"
- 2013 - "A Successful Visit"
- 2017 - "Unknown Leningrad Region"
- TV: 1996-1999 - series of programs "Line of Cinema"
Actor
- 1987 - Dream - a character, a mime
- 1988 - The Way - 1st Comrade
- 1988 - Metamorphosis - Figure
- 1989 - Clownery - Daniil Harms
- 1993 - The Bigmoon Nights - A Man with an Accordion
- 1993 - Shatanger Aylok - Unutor Flor
- 2002 - Tango Nightingale - The Male
Awards
- 1999 - Special Jury Diploma for the film "Psycho Attack Over Soviets" Festival festival of Nations, Austria
- 2000 — Festival Diploma for the film "The Leaving" at the festival of Nations in Austria
- 2005 - Special prize "Through the thorns to the stars" for the film "Clownery" at the International Festival of Independent Cinema, St. Petersburg
- 2006 - "TEFI" "For innovation and creative search" of the program "Itozha", TV channel "STO"
- 2008 - "Golden Pen 2007" in the nomination "journalism" for the documentary series "Children of the Blockade", the TV channel "100 TV"
- 2008 - National Award "TEFI" "The Best Operator of a TV documentary / TV series" for the film "The Children of the Blockade", the TV channel "100TV"
- 2011 - "TEFI 2010" for the project "Reading Chekhov" in the nomination "Television and Life: Special Project"
- 2019 — Best Trailer and Best experimental film for "Last Love " at 12 Months Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, January 2019
- 2019 — For the film "Last Love" DMOFF AWARD-Official Selection March 2019, JURY AWARD; TOP 10 weeks of week 9 of 2019; TOP 10 weeks of week 10 of 2019; TOP 10 weeks of week 12 of 2019; TOP 10 weeks of week 13 of 2019; TOP 10 weeks of week 14 and 15 of 2019
- 2019 - for the Best Short Experimental Film "Above the Lake". Light and future international film festival, Houston, USA, March 2019
- 2019 - London international film award for the film "Last love" - LIMPA, May 2019, United Kingdom-semi-finalist
- 2019 - the film "Last Love", Galata Frame International Film Festival, may 2019; finalist
- 2019 - for the film "The Birth of Music" DMOFF AWARD-Official Selection June 2019, TOP 10 weeks 22nd week 2019, TOP 10 weeks 23rd week 2019, TOP 10 weeks 24th week 2019
- 2019 - Best Soundtrack for the film "Last Love", international film festival in Buenos Aires, June 2019
- 2019 - International Film Festival in Buenos Aires, the film "Last Love" semi-finalist, June 2019
- 2019 - International Film Festival in Buenos Aires, The Best Poster for the film "Moonlight People", September 2019
- 2019 - Lisbon film Rendezvous, film "Moonlight People" - finalist, October 2019
- 2019 — Istanbul international Experimental film Festival, the film "Moonlight People" - November 2019, Finalist, The Best Fresh Air Award
- 2019 — for the film "Above the Lake" DMOFF AWARDS - Official Selection of October 2019; TOP 10 weeks 40th week 2019; TOP 10 weeks 41st week 2019; TOP 10 weeks 42nd week 2019; TOP 10 weeks 43rd week 2019; TOP 10 weeks 44th week 2019; TOP 10 weeks 45th week 2019; TOP 10 weeks 46th Week 2019
- 2019 — Istanbul international Experimental film Festival, "Moonlight People" - Best Fresh Air Award, November 2019
- 2019 — Einstein Buddha international film Festival, Rishikesh, India, for the film "The Birth of Music" - Best Screenplay Award, November 2019
- 2019 — AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, December 9, 2019, "Moonlight People" - Semi-Finalist
- 2019 — Best experimental film for "Moonlight People " at 12 Months Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 2019
- 2019 — "Above the Lake" - WINNER, Festival Internacional de Cine Silente, Mexico, December, 2019
- 2019 — "Last Love", Short Cinefest, December, 2019, AWARD: Best Experiment Film
- 2019 — for the film "The Granny's Apocrypha" DMOFF AWARD - Official Selection December 2019, TOP 10 of Week of 50th Week of 2019, TOP 10 of Week of 51st Week of 2019, TOP 10 of Week of 52nd Week of 2019
- 2019 — Award Winner - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival 2019, december, 2019
- 2020 — for the film "Wellspring" DMOFF AWARD-official selection January 2020, TOP 10 of the week of the 5th week of 2020; TOP 10 of Week of 6th Week of 2020; TOP 10 of Week of 8th Week of 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", Love Film festival, Barcelona, Spain, February 2020, AWARD: Best experimental film
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", Rome Independent Prisma Awards, Rome, Italy, March, 2020, Semi-Finalist, FinalistNOMINATION
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, March, 2020, Semi-Finalist
- 2020 — for the film "Time, ago!", 12 Months Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, April, 2020, Best Experimental Film, Best Music Video, 2nd Sound designer
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", Europa Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain, March, 2020, SPECIAL MENTION
- 2020 — for the film "Moonlight People" Best experimental film at Short Cine Fest, March, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Moonlight People" GRAND JURY AWARD at Dreamanila International Film Festival, Manila, Philippines, May, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", FINALIST at FLICKFAIR, Los Angeles, USA, June, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", Critics Choice Award at Madras Independent Film Festival, Tamil Nadu, India, June, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2020 at IFF - International Film Festival, Torino, Italy, June, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Moonlight People", FINALIST at Prague International Monthly Film Festival, Prague, Czechia, July, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", Best Experimental Short at Global Monthly Online Film Competition, July, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Above the Lake", Special Mention Award at Madras Independent Film Festival, Madras, India, July, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Clownery" - SEMI-FINALIST on The Flight Deck Film Festival, New York City, NY, United States, July, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Moonlight People" - Award-Winner of Madrid Film Awards, Madrid, Spain, July, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Moonlight People" - Best Cinematography, Varese International Film Festival, Varese, Italy, July, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Moonlight People" - Special Mention, Monthly Indie Shorts, July, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Time, ago!"- FINALIST, Kosice International Monthly Film Festival, Kosice, Slovakia, July, 2020
- 2020 — for the film "Last Love", Experimental Film Festival Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2020, Best Script