MOSCOW REGION TO HOST INTERNATIONAL SPORT MOVIES FESTIVAL

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MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow region town of Krasnogorsk will host the International Sport Movies Festival from September 11 to 15, said the festival's art-director Mikhail Degtyar at a press conference on Monday.

According to him, this year the film festival joined the International Sport Cinematography Federation, which gives the chance of presenting three best works at the Festival of the Sports Movies Festivals in Milan late in October.

Mr. Degtyar said that 58 works from various regions of Russia and 17 foreign countries had been selected for participation in the contest. "Shot were the films about 15 sports, mainly including the most popular ones - soccer, hockey, track and field, tennis, judo, skiing, gymnastics. There is also a film about curling", he said in response to RIA Novosti's question.

The festival's opening ceremony will take place in Krasnogorsk's Cultural Center. The opening day will see the premier of Russian feature film "Break-Point".

According to the Russian Tennis Federation's president Shamil Tarpischev, "the film's plot ends with the Kremlin Cup, so the spectators will see the Russian tennis-players, who participated in the tournament".

The works in the nominations of "Feature Film", "Documentary", "TV Program", "Sports Commercial" will be ranked by the international jury headed by nine times Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics Larisa Latynina. Elected the president of the festival was Vyacheslav Fetisov, head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism.

The festival's prize pool will amount to $10,000.

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