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XIII International Media-Forum
of young journalists

November 7-9, 2018
The State Hermitage Museum
Saint-Petersburg

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About the Forum

For the past 12 years «Dialogue of Cultures» has been remaining one of the biggest platforms located in Russia, where every year representatives of the international media space from more than 30 countries meet. Joining the work of the Forum you become a part of a huge media event: try to find by joint effort the answers on the media challenges, present your own transboundary projects, aimed at overcoming the conflicts between representatives of different cultures and confessions, adopt experience of colleagues from other countries and find new friends in profession.

Welcome word from the organizers

We invite you, young journalists, to become a part of the Media-Forum in the State Hermitage Museum, where the dialogue between different countries and nations has already being lead for more than 2,5 centuries. We hope that this journey to the Northern capital of Russia not only become a key point at the beginning of your career, but also make you more cultured. It will be interesting here in Hermitage!

Mikhail Piotrovsky

Director-General of the State Hermitage Museum

Ashot Dzhazoyan

Chairman of the Mediacongress «The Commonwealth of Journalists»

35
countries

of the world

400
participants

Among them: correspondents, photographers, film crews of TV-channels, editors, media managers, as well as representatives of the new media and bloggers.

60
regions

of Russia

35
countries

of the world

400
participants

Among them: correspondents, photographers, film crews of TV-channels, editors, media managers, as well as representatives of the new media and bloggers.

60
regions

of Russia

Faces of the Dialogue

Meet the Forum's participants and their projects, which they are going to present in the State Hermitage.

Austria

Akos Burg

Photo project "Moments of Austria. My personal view" shows beauty of Vienna through Akos Burg's camera lens.

Ireland

Andrew McConnell

The author of the cross-border project «The Returning» is documenting the events, happening in the cosmodrome Baikonur, the main cosmic portal of the world, next to which the posterities of nomad tribes are continuing their peaceful existence.

India

Anuj Medhavi

Diverse and beautiful India is presented by Anuj in his photo project "India through my lens". Each shot of the project will make you feel mix of different cultures and harmony of coexisting in one country.

Netherlands

Chris de Bode

The Author in his photo-project "I have a dream" shows us intimate wishes of children all over the World. Each picture is a deep personal story of a child which he's ready to share.

Germany

Frank Herfort

The project is devoted to Khabarovsk citizens, the people of creative and technical professions, different interests and personal stories. They are united by the city and an aspiration to develop themselves.

Scotland

Kieran Dodds

How can the hair color unite nations? The author of the cross-border photo project «Gingers» has been making the portraits of holders of this rare hair color from Russia and Scotland - the countries with the highest percentage of ginger-haired people.

India

Pratibha Meena

Every girl is created by God so freedom is her Birth-Right and knowledge is the key to the locks the society shackles of the females, it gives Wings to fly her in the open Sky. This statement is told by Pratibha via her photo project "Daughters are soulful creature of Gos"

Egypt

Roger Anis

The photo project «A Closet Full of Dreams» is a story about Egyptian women, who are living in the society, where a woman feels herself oppressed, walking the streets. There are clothes, hidden in their closets. Clothes, which they will never put on to escape the judgey looks of passers-by and not to hear moralizing by the side of the family and friends.

Bulgaria

Georgi Kozhuharov

The project "Lens2Lens" - is a platform for multimedia stories in order to be easier for journasilsts to legitimize themselves in front of the military and to be completely independent and to be able to work in a manner that they want.

Norway

Kyrre Lien

Active Internet-commentators from Norway, Russia, the USA, Lebanon and Denmark became the protagonists of the multimedia cross-border project «Internet Warriors» of the visual journalist. Every Internet warrior fights for its own truth in the global network.

Spain

Daniel Mayrit

Spanish project "Upload/Download" is about different forms of Art in digital era. There're collected 10 books of foreign and russian artists and the Wall of memes.

Russia, North Osetia

Albina Janaeva, Bela Nakusova

The documentary series "Great osetians from Great theater" consists of five films and is dedicated to the staff of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, which was brought up by Osetia. In the second film of the series, the authors introduce the audience to the head of the ballet company Makhar Vaziev.

Russia, Moscow

Anastasia Kurylina

"The music of steel" is a documentary about the blacksmith. Blacksmiths are strong, persistant people working every day with fire and steel. Very few know that they are even more romantic and sensitive people than many of us! Pampukha Igor tells not only about himself, the knife industry and his "Knife" philosophy, but also shows his small collection and shares his thoughts on the future of the blacksmith craft.

Denmark

Gertrud
Sparre-Ulrich

The Documentary "Hetna - a modern opera singer" - is a successfull producer debut of Gertrud. The film tells us about the Danish opera singer who had the idea to transfer the opera from the stage to private houses.

France

Marvin Karas, Lucas Palen

The Documentary "As long as we go east" is about a skate journey in Europe. A four month artistic performance through nine countries. A bridge between west cultures and east cultures.

Argentina

Mercedes Cordova

The Documentary "Food on the go" - is a fascinating story about the travelling of italian cuisine to american continent. Mercedes touches not only the history of italian cuisine but also the emergence of new traditions far from its home land.

Belarus

Nadezhda Gabets

The documentary "Sporovo polka" tells us about a national dance which inhabitants of belarusian village of Sporovo have maintained for three hundred years.

Russia, Kaluga

Nanuli Kumelashvili

TV program "People and masterpieces in the State Hermitage" shows that the points of contact with works of art exhibited in the Hermitage can be found in all cities of Russia, and each of us can find this connection in ourselves.

India

Prasad Deshpande, Nikhil Rane, Devadatta Rajadhyaksha

The Documentary "Red stars lost in the mist" - is a colourful story about intercultural relations, told with soviet books

Spain

Ricardo Marquina

Spanish journalist, documentary filmmaker based in Russia

Russia, Voronezh

Tatiana Kobzareva

Documentary program "The History Address. The life of Grand Duchess Olga Romanova" tells about a daughter of one of the greatest Emperors of Russia and shows her life in the village of Ramon based on memories of people who remember her and still live there.

Russia, Novosibirsk

Vladislav Nekrasov

The Documentary film "Towards the wind" tells about people who have chosen an alternative way to life in eco-settlement. They seek to live in harmony with themselves and the world around them, building their own happiness from scratch.

Russia, Ekaterinburg

Anna Shevchenko

Freelancer, journalist of the Internet portal «It's my city»

Hungary

Bertalan Adam Egry

Reporter and foreign editor at TV2 Media Group Private Company Limited by Shares (shortly: TV2 Ltd.)

Slovenia

Dejan Mekiš and Jure Maček

Observers from National Television of Slovenia

Greece

Eleni Margarita Neikova

Freelance editor in English language at Diplomatic Spectrum, International Magazine

Latvia

Jekaterina Borzaya

News editor at "Latvijas Radio"

Russia, Moscow

Julia Kazakova

Editor-in-Chief of "Read square"

Abkhazia

Lana Abshilava

Journalist at AGTRK, a host of the analytical newscast «Алкаақәа»

Russia, Crimea

Marina Nedokontseva

Special programs reporter at TV and radio company «Crimea»

Serbia

Novak Lukovac

Freelancer, "Kurir" and "editor.rs" outlets co-writer

Russia, Crimea

Oksana Kupriyanova and Aleksandr Volkonsky

Journalists from Criemean TV

Turkey

Tansu Pişkin

Journalist at internet news journal "Bianet"

Sections of the dialogue

The program of the Forum is very diverse and is aimed not only at the representatives of registered in their country media, but also at independent journalists, photographers, filmmakers, bloggers, editors of Internet-portals or another digital-media outlets. Every participant could express his opinion on the up-to-date changes in the media space, present openly his own professional achievements in different formats, it could be: an article in a newspaper or magazine, TV-spot, a documentary film, series of photographs or a cross-border multimedia project.