Anna Mathison: director, screenwriter and producer in one person

Anna MathisonRecently, this name often flashes on the pages of the yellow press in connection with the close relations between the director and the actor Sergey Bezrukov, who is famous throughout the country. What else is remarkable personality Mathison and what director's work Anna can be proud of?

Anna Mathison: biography. early years

Fate Mathison evolved very unpredictable.It would seem that a girl who has no directing or screenwriting education should not have got into the world of big cinema. But it turned out quite the opposite.

Anna Mathison was born in far Irkutsk.She has two brothers - Timofey and Leonid. Little is known about the school hobbies of the girl, but after graduating from school she entered the Irkutsk State University for a specialty not related to cinema.

Learning was easy for Anna, so shein parallel, decided to get a job in a local television station. By the time it was time to get a degree, Mathison was already the main producer of program broadcasting. It so happened that at that time she was the only producer of this level in Russia who was not even 25 years old.

In 2004Mathison became a co-founder of the company REC.production, which produced advertising films and videos. It was here that the truth was revealed to the young producer that advertising was not very interesting for her, but she was attracted to a great movie.

Moving to Moscow

In 25 years, Anna Mathison "committed an act" andwent to Moscow to get a second higher education: she became a student of the scriptwriting department of VGIK. By the way, the VGIK director graduated in 2013 with a red diploma.

The girl understood that she needed something.to begin, therefore, she created a script based on the work by Evgeny Grishkovets “The Mood Has Improved” and shot a short film. The famous actor and playwright was interested in this work, and he got in touch with Anna. As a result, in 2011, the debut full-length film Mathison “Satisfaction” was released, in which Grishkovets not only starred, but also wrote the script in collaboration with Anna.

По сюжету фильма, двое мужчин, которые любят одну the same woman gathers in the same restaurant and drinks there from evening to morning. At first they try to “divide” a woman among themselves, then they realize that they do not like her at all, and they switch to more philosophical topics for conversation. The film has a lot of dialogue, but little action. That is why he was criticized by professional playwrights and directors.

Movie scenarios and directorial works

Anna Mathison was not embarrassed by criticism.Together with Evgeny Grishkovets they continue to cooperate to this day. The result of their collaboration was a documentary series called “Without a Script”, a number of music videos. Also Mathison and Grishkovets wrote two plays: “House” and “Weekend”. The play "Weekend" was staged in several theaters in Russia, as well as theaters of neighboring countries.

Mathison took part in writing the scriptfor the films “Yolki-2”, “Through the Eyes of a Dog”, “Yolki-3”, “The Milky Way”, “Yolki 1914”. Mathison also shot a lot of documentaries: The Musician, dedicated to the works of Denis Matsuev, as well as a number of films about the conductor Valeria Gergiev, the composers Shchedrin, Prokofiev, Berlioz and the choirmaster Michael Turetsky.

"Milky Way"

Director Anna Mathison in 2015Started shooting the picture "Milky Way". There is a lot of hype around the film, since not only famous actors like Sergey Bezrukov and Marina Alexandrova will appear in it, but also pianist Denis Matsuev. The film will be released in 2016.

Mathison says that this film should remindthe viewer famous "The Irony of Fate ...". At least, she tries to do everything possible for this. When the director was asked whether the famous musician Matsuev coped with his duties, Anna assured her that she was lucky with Denis: he feels good about the stage and camera. All the action in the film takes place on New Year's Eve in Irkutsk. And Matsuev, as is known, comes from these very territories.

In addition to such famous personalities as Bezrukov and Matsuev, Valentin Gaft, Marina Aleksandrova and even Vladimir Menshov are involved in the project.

Anna Mathison: personal life

Mathison is not very spread about his personalof life. And even when she and Bezrukov were filmed on the camera at the moment when they walk by the arm in Moscow, and then uploaded this video to the Internet, nothing has changed: Bezrukov and Mathison are silent about their relationship. It is only known that Sergey really left the family and no longer lives with Irina Bezrukova.

Director Anna Mathison speaks in her interviewsabout the actor is only positive. She admitted that the main role in the "Milky Way" sharpened just for him. Moreover, it is known that Bezrukov will be removed in two of her projects - the historical film “Wait for Spring” and the biographical film “Baryshnikov”.

Here so young director slowly and trulyconquers the cinematic space of the Russian Federation. One can only wonder how this fragile girl finds the strength to lead the complex processes of filming.