Poetic Screenplay

A poet and playwright born on August 12, 1983, in Saransk (the Republic of Mordovia, Russia); in 2005, he graduated with honors from the Philology Faculty of the Ogarev Mordovia State University and moved to Moscow. He worked as bank officer, desk clerk in printing office, furniture designer, and so on. In 2006, he took to script writing; in 2011, he wrote a lyric and epic poem After spring, which served as basis for a new genre, poetic screenplay. He laid the theoretical foundation for the concept of poetic screenplay, defined it, and described its main features. Being a reformer, he proposed dividing the treatment in two parts: prose and poetic.