Sergei Chlyants
General Producer, Pygmalion Productions
Sergei Chlyants began his career as a film director in the Odyssey Film Studio, where he shot his only film, In A Straight Line (1992). He subsequently served as the General Producer for Gor'kii Film Studio during the mid-1990s, where he produced Nikolai Lebedev's Snake Source (1997) and Natal'ia P'iankova's A Strange Time (1997). He also served as the General Director of Soiuzkino, an association of film producers. Among the films he has produced are: Roman Kachanov's Down House (2001), Aleksandr Khvan's Carmen (2003), Il'ia Khotinenko's The Odyssey 1989—The Wise Guy (2002), and Aleksandr Shein's The Mixer (2001). He is currently producing Kira Muratova's newest film, The Tuner.