The School of Documentary Animation

The school of documentary animation at the Rudnik Debut Documentary Film Festival in Sviyazhsk appeared together with the creation of the festival itself on the initiative of Marina Razbezhkina in 2017. The ten-day summer intensive, where participants develop and shoot their short documentary cartoons, was conceived from the very beginning as a project in which not only animators can participate, but everyone who sends an interesting request for a film. Over the years, young documentary and game directors, journalists, writers and screenwriters, artists and designers, theater people, teachers and, of course, animators from all over the country have passed through the school, enriching each other and expanding the general idea of animation. The breadth of topics chosen by the participants of the school is also impressive: from the most intimate, personal ones related to family, illness, the search for identity, to those that talk about great historical cataclysms and social problems.