November 18, 2009 passed the first day of the conference forum "Russian film industry 2009", organized by " Univers-Consulting commissioned by the Ministry of Culture with the support of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and the independent research company, Movie Research. Chairman of the Committee on Culture of the State Duma Grigory Ivliev expressed the hope that perhaps the positive changes will happen next year, when the amount of state support will increase by almost 40% to 5.5 billion . rubles. Nikita Mikhalkov, drew attention to the problem of quality of modern Russian cinema and a shortage of professionals in the industry. The program of the conference was the forum of the meetings of four sections: During the first section of "Art and meaningful solutions" discussed how to overcome the crisis of ideas and scenarios, as far as Hollywood templates suitable for the establishment of national cinema. Second Section, Office of film projects and development of the film "discussed why the Russian companies engaged in the production and promotion of the film, not diversify the business, in contrast to the well-known western studios. On methods of state regulation of the industry have argued, the third section, also raised the issue of an electronic ticket. Interest meeting the fourth section sounded "Technology and Infrastructure". The conversation, mostly on issues related to cinema of the growing popularity of making movies in three-dimensional format.
