Anton Mazurov

Anton Valeryevich Mazurov (Russian: Антон Валерьевич Мазуров) is a Russian film critic, historian of cinema, lecturer, art-cinema curator and film distributor.
== Biography ==
Anton Mazurov was born in Moscow.
He attended the Moscow Medical Academy named after Sechenov..
In 1998, graduated from the film studies department at the Russian State University of Cinematography, where he studied under L. Zaitseva and L. Mamatova.
He has held positions as a programmer at the Central Museum of Cinema, as a film critic for Nezavisimaya Gazeta, and as a screenwriter for the TV program This Film onChannel One.
His articles have appeared in magazines such as Iskusstvo Kino, Video ASS, Premiere (Russia), OM, Menyu Udovolstviy, Total Film, Play, Itogi, and Kinopark, as well as in newspapers like Russian Telegraph, Action!, Gazeta.Ru, YTRO.ru, Arthouse.ru, Vremya MN, Segodnya, and Rolling Stone among others.
From 1998 to 2000, he served as PR and Advertising Director for the distribution company East-West Creative Commonwealth (now UIP). He co-authored the manifesto of Russia's arthouse distribution movement PROJECT 35 (2000), which led to the establishment of Moscow's first arthouse theater, 35 MM.
Since 2000, Mazurov has been the Creative Director of the Russian distribution company Cosmopol Film Distribution (Kino Bez Granits LLC). Between 2004 and 2009, he held the roles of Vice President and Creative Director at Kino Bez Granits LLC, founded by the Swedish film company Maywin Media AB.
In May 2009, Mazurov and Sergei Livnev launched the art film production and distribution company LeopART, along with the art cinema information portal KINOTE
In 2010–2011, he served as Program Director for the contemporary art cinema festival 2morrow/Zavtra, founded by Ivan Dykhovichny.
In 2012, in partnership with producer Evgeny Gindilis, Mazurov organized the first Russian international film fair, Red Square Screenings (RSS), in collaboration with the Russian Film Foundation and Marché du Film (Cannes).
In 2013, Mazurov founded ANT!PODE Sales & Distribution, an international company specializing in the sale of film rights. The company's initial portfolio included The Geographer Drank His Globe Away by Alexander Veledinsky, Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari by Aleksey Fedorchenko, The Atonement by Alexandr Proshkin, and Private Partsby Natalya Merkulova and Alexei Chupov.
In 2019, after concluding the previous project, Mazurov established ANT!DOTE Sales, an international sales company. Since 2022, ANT!DOTE Sales has functioned as an independent international sales arm of the Swedish distribution company Maywin Media AB.
Mazurov also lectured at the Moscow branch of the New York Film Academy. In 2014, he delivered a series of public lectures on the history of international non-fiction film, titled "History of the Cinema Eye: Author's Approaches to Documenting Reality and the Past" at the Moscow Documentary Film Center. From 2018 to 2022, he gave public lectures on the history and aesthetics of cinema at the Nekrasov Library in Moscow. 
Since September 2023, he has been teaching a university-wide course on the history and theory of auteur cinema at the Higher School of Economics in collaboration with Zara Abdullayeva
Category:1968 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Moscow
Category:Russian film critics
Category:Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni