film production company based in France, Switzerland and the US
founded by Anatoly (brother) and Valeria (sister) Ivanov in 2011

WHAT WE DO

• _hybrid genre, multikulti, global stories
• _experiments with norms, color & sound
• _features & series for any screen
• _international co-productions
• _creative involvement (script, direction, cinematography…)

WHAT WE DON’T DO

• _projects which include a director we didn’t choose
• _horror, comedy, fantasy & animation
• _traditional entertainment & story arcs
• _trendy postmodern festival fare
• _shorts, except to test our custom film tools @idelekka
• _news or corporate interviews
• _line production

WHO WE LOOK FOR

• _those who like our works and films by others (lists below)
• _producers with a taste for non-conformism, risk & quality
• _screenwriters working in English (+other language)
• _actors able to perform in English
• _camera crew who share our aesthetics
• _sound engineers
• _electronic music composers
• _cinema industry outsiders with achievements elsewhere
• _any talented perfectionists who get things done

SOME OF OUR FILMS

FILMS & SERIES WE LIKE

• “Solaris”, “The Sacrifice”, “Andrey Rublev” & “The Mirror” by Andrey Tarkovsky
• “Blade Runner” by Ridley Scott
• “Igla” by Rashid Nugmanov
• “Heat” by Michael Mann
• “Manhattan” by Woody Allen
• “The Limits of Control” by Jim Jarmusch
• “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, “Brazil” & “Twelve Monkeys” by Terry Gilliam
• “2001 – A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick
• “Trainspotting” by Danny Boyle
• “Touching the Void” by Kevin MacDonald
• “The Expanse” by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby and James Corey
• “All the President’s Men” by Alan J. Pakula
• “Inception” & “Memento” by Christopher Nolan
• “8½” by Federico Fellini
• “Trois Couleurs. Bleu” by Krzysztof Kieslowski
• “The Hurt Locker” by Kathryn Bigelow
• “Terminator 1” (not the sequels) by James Cameron
• “Traffic” by Steven Soderbergh
• “Raise the Red Lantern” & “Hero” by Zhang Yimou
• “Total Recall” by Paul Verhoeven
• “Highlander 1” (not the sequels) by Russell Mulcahy
• “Chinatown” by Roman Polanski
• “Der Rauber” by Benjamin Heisenberg
• “Paris, Texas” by Wim Wenders
• “Festen” by Thomas Vinterberg
• “Fight Club” by David Fincher
• “Subway” & “Le grand bleu” by Luc Besson
• “The Bourne Identity” by Doug Liman
• “The Bourne Ultimatum” by Paul Greengrass
• “La Haine” by Mathieu Kassovitz
• “Torpedo Bombers” by Semyon Aranovich
• “Cold Summer of 1953” by Alexander Proshkin
• “Kin-dza-dza!” by Georgiy Daneliya

HOW TO CONTACT US

• contact@ektaron.com
• • ektaron on Instagram
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WHAT WE USED TO DO

• _co-produce and film in Russia with 0 governmental support
• _we have pulled out of Russia until the aggressive war is finished, Ukraine recovers its 1991 borders, those attacked, expelled & imprisoned—compensated & released
• _(including members of our families and crews)