Igor Lopatonok

Igor Lopatonok a movie producer who is well known for his game-changing colorization and 3D conversion work in the United States and in Europe. He is the pioneer in cutting-edge technologies to restore, colorize and repurpose famous Soviet Union classic movies such as "Only old men go to Battle", "Volga-Volga", "Officers", "Circus", "Three Poplars at Plyuschikha", "Father of a Soldier" and others. Igor was born in the Ukraine, Soviet Union. He was admitted to the National University of Dnipropetrovsk when he was only 16 years old. His first degree was an engineer. Later he went to Moscow to study at the Moscow State University of International Relations where he was majoring in International Finance. For a number of years, Igor was successfully working in investment and law businesses. Igor's first experience in production was in 1990 when he was a coordinator and organizer of the "Earth Concert" in Moscow. In 2005, he started working as a producer in the movie industry. He is a co-founder of the production company "Technomedia" that has later brought new digital technologies to the Ukrainian movie industry. In 2005, Igor and his production company filmed documentary movies about the famous air shows such as: "La Burge-2005" (France), "MAKS-2005" (Russia), "Al-Ain-2005" (UAE). The idea to start colorization business came to him after he found out that his favorite director Leonid Bykov, originally wanted to shoot the movie about a group of courageous pilots during II World War named "Only Old Men go to Battle", in color, but because of a shortage at that time, he was given a black and white film. Igor is a pilot himself and is known to be a champion of the Ukraine in aerobatics of 2004, so he couldn't not to make Leonid's wish come true. He produced numerous television and feature films and is also a specialist in 3D conversion. His work in 3D includes the films "Nutcracker" in 3D (starring Elle Fanning, directed by Konchalovsky) and "The Last Prince of Atlantis" - 3D stereo animation feature. One of the last feature films that he produced - "Land of Oblivion" starring Olga Kurylenko, was presented at more than 20 major film festivals around the world, including Venice Film Festival, Tornoto International Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival and others. The documentary about II World War - "Will of Victory" that Igor produced and co-directed with Robert Ferretti - was in official selection at many prestigious film festivals in the US and won Special Jury Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2013. Igor is an member of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée * French organization supporting filmmakers, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in the United States, Association of Producers in Ukraine and other world organizations. He is also the founder of Ukrainian Film Commission - an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes Ukraine in the international movie production market.