Sam Klebanov

Sam Klebanov
Born Samuil Yakovlevich Klebanov
(1965-04-14) April 14, 1965
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Occupation film producer
film distributor
television presenter
Nationality Russian
Citizenship Gothenburg
Spouse Irina Vinogradova
Children 1

Sam Klebanov (Russian: Сэм Клебанов, current name Samuil Yakovlevich Klebanov (Russian: Самуил Яковлевич Клебанов); born April 14, 1965, Leningrad[1]) is an activist of the Russian and Swedish film industry, distributor, producer and TV host. In the film business since 1996. Until 2015, he directed the film distribution company Cinema without Borders, then founded a new distribution project Arthouse.[2] Since 2001 to 2008, he was the author and host of the program Magic of Cinema on the television channel Russia-K of Russian television[3].

Biography

Samuil Klebanov was born in Leningrad in 1965, but grew up and graduated from high school in Moscow. From 1983 to 1985, he served in the Soviet Army in the OTNAZ (radio reconnaissance) forces on the territory of the GDR. In 1990 he graduated from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics, specializing in Applied Mathematics.[4]

After the August coup, I moved to Europe. Hitch-hiked, changed many professions from a tutor and a gardener to a programmer. He settled in Gothenburg in Sweden, got citizenship there. From 1993 to 1997 he worked as a programmer and technical director in the companies IFTECH Software and Software Engineering.

In 1996, he founded the company Maywin Media AB in Sweden to sell television programs and films to Russia and the CIS countries. In the same year he established the distribution company Cinema without Borders, which focused on renting an art house in Russia. The first film, bought by him for the Russian hire, was the Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano.[5] After that, he began to plunge deeper into the world of the film industry. In the following years, the company Cinema without Borders became the leading player in the rental market of art house cinema in Russia and the countries of the former USSR, releasing several hundred films to the film distribution and DVD, including. paintings by such directors as Takeshi Kitano, Ruben Östlund, Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cristian Mungiu, Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Ki-duk, Park Chan-wook and many others.

Klebanov's sphere of interest is not limited to cinema. In 2013-2014 he was a regular columnist of the Russian version of the men's magazine GQ.[6]

In the spring of 2015 announced the launch in conjunction with the American company Lorem Ipsum Corp. distribution project Arthouse, which he did instead of Cinema without Borders.[7] Under the new brand Klebanov was going to continue to rent independent and copyright films in Russia, and not only on traditional venues in theaters, on video and television, but also on the Internet.

In January 2016, Sam Klebanov left the company Arthouse[8] and resumed independent film distribution activities under the brand Cinema without Borders. The most successful project of the revived Cinema without Borders was the release of Vitaly Mansky's documentary Under the Sun.[9]

In the fall of 2017, Sam Klebanov, in partnership with software developer Pavel Rabetsky, created a start-up in Cinezen Blockchained Entertainment AB in Sweden.[10] The company's goal was to create the world's first decentralized VOD (video-on-demand) marketplace based on block technology. The startup received seed financing from the Austrian-Israeli Venture Fund AltaIR Capital[11]. In February 2018, at the European Film Market in Berlin, Cinezen announced[12] the conclusion of the first-ever licensing agreements for the online distribution of films using blockade technology and put into circulation a new term BVOD (Blockchain Video-on-Demand)[13].

References

  1. ↑ Сэм Клебанов: У нас, у шведов, отчеств не бывает
  2. ↑ Сэм Клебанов: Наша идея — это симбиоз дистрибуции онлайн и офлайн
  3. ↑ Особый взгляд
  4. ↑ Профиль в интернет-журнале «Сноб»
  5. ↑ Сэм Клебанов: Будущее у артхауса есть
  6. ↑ Мужской журнал GQ
  7. ↑ Сэм Клебанов и Lorem Ipsum Corp. запускают проект «Артхаус»
  8. ↑ Сэм Клебанов покинул Arthouse.ru
  9. ↑ Кинотеатры отказываются показывать «В лучах солнца» Виталия Манского
  10. ↑ Home — Cinezen
  11. ↑ Сэм Клебанов против Netflix. Что такое BVOD?
  12. ↑ "Sales agents including LevelK and Celsius sign up to new Blockchain VOD platform". Screen. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  13. ↑ Продюсер Сэм Клебанов запустит киноплатформу для правообладателей Cinezen с платежами через блокчейн
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