President visited Kazakhfilm studio

sp; ALMATY.  November 23. KAZINFORM  /Daniyar Sikhimbayev/ President Nursultan Nazarbayev has visited Kazakhfilm studio in Almaty today. The Head of the State was demonstrated new equipment and technologies purchased recently. A program and schedule of film shooting for the next year was presented too.

"Due to the President's support ten feature films, two TV series, eleven feature shorts, ten documentaries and first national full-length film "Er Tostik" and first animated series "Kazakh Eli" were shot", President of Kazakhfilm Yermek Amanshayev has said. In 2010 the studio plans to raise the number of its viewers up to 1 mln. In this connection "Golden Warrior" first commercial project was launched. The film will be shot together with Timur Bekmambetov. Projects "Black Major" with Yegor Konchalovsky and "Irony of Love" with Rinat Davletyarov will be launched.

Since the year beginning the studio has fully modernized its production base. Management of the film studio also changed. A Centre of Development of Film Projects is functioning here.