Klim Shipenko

Klim Alekseevich Shipenko Russian ???? ?????????? ??????? born 16 June 1983 Moscow is a Russian film director screenwriter cinematographer actor producer and cosmonaut Twotime winner of the Golden Eagle Award in the category Best Feature Film for Salyut7 in 2018 and for Text in 2020 The director of Son of a Rich one of the highestgrossing films in Russia and the CIS more than 3 billion rubles box office receipts In 2021 he became a participant in a space flight within the framework of the scientific and educational project Challenge It is the first featurelength fiction film to be filmed in space by professional filmmakers His father is actor director playwright Alexey Shipenko Shipenko was born in Moscow Russian SFSR Soviet Union now Russia In 2002 he entered the California State University at Northridge Film Production Department He worked as an intern on the set of the film Somethings Gotta Give by Nancy Meyers Filmed the diploma film as a cameraman Studied at the Sal Dano Professional Actors Workshop In 2004 he returned to Moscow For a short time he worked on Channel One was the director of the Plantain program about cars In 2021 Shipenko shot portions of a science fiction film aboard the International Space Station It is to be the second narrative featurelength fiction film shot partially in space after Return from Orbit and it is the first featurelength fiction film to be filmed in space by professional filmmakers The project is tentatively called The Challenge 2023 and was shot between the launch of Soyuz MS19 and return of Soyuz MS18 The first narrative film filmed fully the narrative film Return from Orbit had some scenes filmed in space in outer space was a short film titled Apogee of Fear shot in 2008 The Challenge was in a race with Tom Cruise and Doug Liman to shoot the first narrative feature film in space On the ISS Shipenko was in charge of camera lighting sound recording and makeup The acting was done by actress Yulia Peresild The filming equipment was launched at Progress MS17 and returned on Soyuz MS18 Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei helped with filming