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2024: Attracting 100 million rubles to expand the production of in-house projectors

On June 5, 2024, it became known that the ceremony of signing an investment agreement between the Yakut company Extra Cinema and the Fund for Sovereign Technologies of the NTI (FST) took place. 100 million rubles of investments will be directed to expanding the production of film projectors of their own design. The document was signed by Vladimir Kompaneishchikov, head of the FST, and Pyotr Chiryaev, general director of Extra Cinema. The signing ceremony was attended by the Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Aysen Nikolaev and Chairman of the Council of the National Technology Initiative Fund Dmitry Peskov.

source = Press center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Moscow

As reported, the funds will be used to launch the Extra Cinema production and assembly workshop with a production capacity of up to 2 thousand film projectors per year, as well as to develop a digital platform and replenish working capital. The workshop will begin its work on the territory of the first creative cluster "Quarter of Labor" in Yakutsk in the Far Eastern Federal District.

The Extra Cinema film projector was also created for. import substitution The equipment is a full-fledged ecosystem for cinemas, including the ability to connect to sale ticket services and the Pushkin Card program.

In 2022, a pilot project was launched in Yakutia to equip Extra Cinema projectors with cinemas in small settlements, where it was previously considered unprofitable to open cinemas. As of June 2024, 30 cinema halls were equipped in the republic.

In the near future, we will open an additional 120 halls in small settlements, including in the Arctic, and people will have the opportunity to watch movies on the big screen. This will be implemented with the support of the NTI Sovereign Technology Fund. We are grateful to NTI for the support of a very significant project for the republic. In Yakutia, a full-fledged film industry is being formed with all its components: from filming to rental. And thanks to the Extra Cinema projectors, Yakutia is becoming one of the first regions in the country to create a film screening system alternative to the Western one. told Aisen Nikolaev, Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

In May 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin, having visited the cultural and educational cluster in the Zotov center on Khodynka and examined the stand of Extra Cinema, supported the idea of ​ ​ equipping cinemas in almost 20 thousand cultural houses in small towns and villages of the country. In August 2023, the head of state instructed the Government of the Russian Federation to develop and implement a program for the opening of cinemas in small settlements.

The project successfully passed the pilot stage. With the support of the FTS, we reach production capacity of up to two thousand projectors per year. This will allow already in 2024 to implement the regional stage of the project on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), followed by this to cover the Far Eastern regions, in which the need is about 1 thousand cinema halls, and then the whole of Russia. As of June 2024, applications are already coming from all over our big country. noted Petr Chiryaev, General Director of Extra Cinema

Supporting the Extra Cinema project, the FTS makes an important contribution to the development of the creative industries of our country. said Vladimir Kompaneyshchikov, head of the NTI Sovereign Technology Fund

The project is included in the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On National Development Goals of the Russian Federation for the Period until 2030 and for the Future until 2036." By 2030, it is necessary to equip up to 900 audiovisual content playback centers in small settlements with the necessary equipment to ensure citizens' access to the achievements of modern Russian cinema. The centers will be connected to a single digital platform, including a library of audiovisual content.