ALEXANDER RODNYANSKY

Alexander Rodnyansky, Russian film/television producer and media executive, is the founder of the Ukrainian TV-channel 1+1 and former CEO of the biggest independent publicly traded media conglomerate in Russia - CTC Media.

He has produced over 20 TV-series and more than 30 films including East/West (1999), A Chef in Love (1997),  The 9th Company (2005),  Heat (2006), The Inhabited Island(2009), Innocent Saturday (2011), and Elena (2011). Two of his films were nominated for Oscars in the "Best Foreign Language Film" category. In 2011 a film directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev and produced by Alexander Rodnyansky Elena received dozens of prizes on Film Festivals around the world, including the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard.

In 2009 Rodnyansky established his own company - A.R.Films. A.R.Films controls one of the biggest film licensing and distribution corporations in Central and Eastern Europe - A Company; a Russian movie production company - Non-Stop Production; a leading independent film distribution company - Cinema Without Frontiers and one of the key Russian film festivals - Kinotavr. A.R.Games - a division of A.R.Films - owns 25% of Syncopate, one of  the biggest online game publishers in Russia and the Russian-speaking markets.

Through A.R.Films US Rodnyansky is  involved in the development and production of high-quality independent films. He is the producer of Billy Bob Thornton's film Jayne Mansfield's Car, The Goat Island, directed by D.J.Caruso and the upcoming Robert Rodriguez's films Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and Machete Kills, as well as an untitled Renny Harlin thriller currently in post-production.