Addressing the guests, MRS. Yushchenko described the Ukrainian Cinema Foundation created on the initiative of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund. She emphasized that the Foundation’s priority was presenting and promoting the Ukrainian cinema globally. “We are happy to have made one of the first and most important steps to make Ukrainian cinema popular and fashionable,” she said. “We’ll work on finding and supporting young talents who will eventually create modern Ukrainian cinema.”
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The parties discussed Ukraine’s participation in the Berlin International Film Festival and exchanged their experience in involving non-state funds into supporting national cinema.
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The participants of the meeting discussed the cooperation between Ukrainian film producers and International Federation of Film Producers Associations. In part, Mr. Ginisty proposed to organize a series of conferences or roundtables at the Molodist Film Festival aimed at involving Ukrainian producers into the international network.
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The major topic for the discussion was Ukraine’s participation in the Cannes Film Festival and Film Market. This year Ukraine will have its own pavilion at the festival. So, the participants of the meeting discussed a serried of events aimed at its promotion. Besides, the aprties discussed the possibility of including a retrospect of Ukrainian film classics into the official program of the Cannes Festival.
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Mr. Maksymchuk red out an address from Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko to the participants of the workshop.
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Commenting on this decision, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko said that this event symbolized successful completion of an important stage of the creation of the Children’s Hospital of the Future. “We hope that we’ll soon go through the next stages and start the construction, looked forward to by the whole country,” she said.
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February 5, 2008, the UNIAN Informational Agency hosted a press conference dedicated to the presentation of Ukrainian national cinema at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Addressing the representatives of the grant-receiving institutions, Mrs. Yushchenko thanked them for helping the state and community solve problems of rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy. “I am pleased to see so many people from throughout Ukraine, united by their common strive to render high quality aid to children with cerebral palsy,” she said.
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The roundtable participants resolved to draft an address to the Ukrainian government, including all proposals voiced at the roundtable, and suggest creating an interim workgroup to study possibilities for improving the situation with rehabilitation and treatment for children with special needs. The workgroup will work with problems of rendering high quality medical and social rehabilitation to children with special needs and work out a concept of uniting efforts from the state, business, and NGOs in solving these issues.
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Mrs. Yushchenko took a tour of the studio and talked to the artist. Ms. Barynova-Kuleba presented to Mrs. Yushchenko her creative works, whose major topics are her native country, woman and mother, work, rustic life, nature, love for Ukraine, the history of the Ukrainians, expressed through various artistic techniques and methods.
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The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund announces that the deadline for applications to the first stage of the Art Objects Contest for the Contemporary Arts Park at the Children’s Hospital of the Future is prolonged till February 20, 2008.
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The major topic for discussion was the Davos Philanthropic Roundtable at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in which Mrs. Yushchenko has taken part.
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