Igor Kokarev M.A. Ph.D.

DP Consultant

- Scholar and teacher: Soviet and American Film History, Film as Political tool – current course in the State University High School of Economy, Moscow. During the 1980′s, he served as vice president of the Soviet-American Film Initiative. At the begining of 2000 he was an editor in chief of the film weekly trade paper “SK-News”.
- Leading Russian specialist in community development. Range of knowledge, experience and scholarship covers community organizing practice and theory both in general and in post-Soviet Russia; the conditions that preceded and resulted in the current state of civil society in the Russian “fake” democracy; perceptions through numerous US travels of American civil society. Mr. Kokarev has 30 year history in film making and media business development.
He attended and graduated from Odessa Marine School of Engineering, National State Film Institute in Moscow and the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow.  Igor, hods a number of degrees and honors such as a PH.D., multiple M.A.s, Moscow Anniversary Medal and multiple fellowships.  Mr. Kokarev hold affilations and has worked on projects such as   SOVIET ANIMATION AS PROPAGANDA, 2001, Narrator (a view from the Inside by Igor Kokarev, Ph.D.: “a brief trip back in time with Professor Igor Kokarev of the Russian national film school, as he recreates for DVD viewers a lost world, and explains the atmosphere and mind-set in which these works were first produced”), Weekly trade paper “SK-News”, Filmmaker’s Union of Russia, Chief editor. 1998/2001, Odessa Film Studio Anniversory Film Festival, member of the Jury. 1996,  National television talk show: “NOT ONLY HOLLYWOOD”, Anchorman. 1990/1991, Soviet/American Entertainment Summit, Executive Director, Los Angeles, USA,1987,    Moscow, Russia 1989; American/Soviet Film Initiative (ASK), International Professional Association, Moscow/Los    Angeles, Vice-President. 1987/1992, Filmmakers Union Research Center, Director  (initiator of professional guilds, co-author of the market model of the Soviet film industry). 1986/1989.  He has also published books including:-    “Film as a Business and Politics”, Aspect Press, Moscow, 2009,
-    “Local Power and Local Communities: Technologies for Partnership”, Moscow, MONF, 2008
-    “On the Way Toward Civil Society in Russia”, Mir, Moscow, 2005;
-    “How I Was Trying to Build Civil Society”, CF, Moscow, 2004;
-    “Neighborhood  Communities – Path to the Democratic  Future”; CF, Moscow, 2001;
-    “Russian Film Industry Between Past and Future”, Moscow, Russian Panorama, 2000;
-     “How to Build Local NGO”, CF, Moscow, 1996;
-    “Neighborhoods, Communities and Housing Coops”, CF, Moscow, 1998;
-    ”Film as a Business”, 1991, Minsk, Vademacum;
-    “USA on the Edge of  70th: Hollywood and Politics”, Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1989
-    “Dialogues about PROC at Moscow International Film Festival”, Moscow, APN, 1988;
-    “America on Screen”, Collection of 80 articles of American film critics translated into Russian with comparative analysis,  Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1978