But now, with his daughter's career beginning to take off, the businessman is happy to step out of the shadows and into the limelight. Julia Lebedev's House (Google Maps). 12:09 PM PST 12/29/2013

"The film's director [Valery Todorovsky] met Tom Hanks after the movie came out, and Hanks told him he would have loved to have appeared in that film," Lebedev said, adding that they are hoping to find another suitable project to pitch to Hanks soon. H… D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (film), "The billionaires investing in Cyprus in exchange for EU passports", "From Oil Fields to Hollywood: Leonid Lebedev", "Russian oligarchs take battle to NY court", "Russian Oil Trader Keen to Produce English-Language Films", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Lebedev&oldid=961591567, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 9 June 2020, at 10:21. [9] He is a member of the board of trustees in Moscow-based State University for Art Studies. They have formed a small film company, Code Red Productions, where he serves as financier, while Julia identifies promising screenplays, potential partners and supervises production. In 2008, he joined forces with director Valery Todorovsky to co-produce Hipsters (film) (in Russian, Stilyagi) a romantic comedy set in 1950s Moscow, and Russia's first post-Soviet musical. He has also been a businessman in music and film, serving as a producer, during the 1980s and more recently, in the creation of independent films such as Hipsters and The Geographer Drank His Globe Away. Working with his American daughter, Julia Lebedev, 30, a Los Angeles-based graduate of USC who produced The Good Doctor, starring Orlando Bloom, Lebedev will be … In 1988 he co-founded the company, which according to Forbes Russia now ranks 154th among private companies in Russia.[3]. [4], In 1988, just after Perestroika, Lebedev co-founded Sintez International, an American joint venture, which traded in commodities and industrial supplies.

She bought it from Nathaniel Redleaf, the son of hedge fund billionaire Andy Redleaf.

Lebedev and his daughter Julia are co-executive producers on the Netflix series "Dear White People" [2017-present][8].

Julia Lebedev, Producer: Bad Education. Before that, the house was owned by Kenneth Panzer.

[4] He earned a degree in engineering from the D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia in 1979. Please log in if you don't want to post TWITTER View Julia Lebedev’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. by Nick Holdsworth © 2020 The Hollywood Reporter

Privacy | [5], In February 2014, Lebedev sued his former partners, Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik, for breach of contract for $2 billion in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.[6]. Leonid Lebedev (born May 2, 1956) is a Cypriot-Russian billionaire businessman, and a former elected representative in Russia's Upper House of Parliament. "At the most, they provide profit for the film distribution companies. The film producer and daughter of Russian billionaire Leonid Lebedev paid $27m for this house in 2016. [5] Lebedev "has a reputation for discretion as a patron of the arts," he is a founder and main sponsor of the Chuvashia Fund acting in the Russian region of the same name and one of the major sponsors of the New National Contemporary Arts Center in Moscow. He also produced this year's Russian Kinotavr film festival winner The Geographer Drank His Globe Away.

anonymously (anonymous users cannot post links). Lebedev is a "movie producer with more than a dozen feature films in his portfolio. In 2002 he was elected to the Federation Council (Russia), Russia's Upper House of Parliament, representing the Republic of Chuvashia. Lebedev, who is a widower, lives in Moscow, as does his other daughter, Yana, who has founded an online fashion guide. cache 5h 1m "It was 1984, and Milos Forman was supposed to be teaching the course, but he changed his mind due to work commitments, and without him, I too decided not to do it, deciding to study chemical engineering instead," he said. Recent works include The Good Doctor (2011 film) co-produced with the film's star Orlando Bloom ("Pirates of the Caribbean") and "Prophet," which is in production and features the animation voices of Salma Hayek and Liam Neeson. They range from small budget projects, such as the $1.7 million comedy Dear White People, a satire about being a black face in a predominately white college campus, to Honor (Ch'est), a $7 million thriller set in England that examines the fraught world of interracial relationships and cultural conflict. "This is the best approach for making Russian cinema more popular and -- in the long run -- more profitable," he stated. Lebedev appears unruffled by the rough and tumble of the business environment and has backed two of Russia's recent film hits. Lebedev has ambitions beyond local-language fare and college campus movies in the states.

There are some positive stories of excellent sophisticated Russian films being commercially successful, but these examples are rare.". About Our Ads [4], He served as an consultant to the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Mosconcert during the early 1980s. For Armenia, she competed three times at the European Figure Skating Championships and placed 27th at the 2002 Winter Olympics All rights reserved. STUDIO CHIEF SUMMIT: 5 Execs on Firings, Franchises and Reflections on a Wild Year. FACEBOOK In 2005, Valery Chumak, who made his fortune in Siberian coal mines, backed Roland Joffe's film Captivity, starring Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert.
He has multiple projects at AFM, all produced with his daughter through their Code Red Productions. "In Russia, the film industry is more of a hobby. [5], According to Forbes, Lebedev is "one of the few Soviets who experimented with joint business ventures between the capitalistic US and the socialistic USSR in the 1980s." MOSCOW -- Russian businessman Leonid Lebedev made his billions in oil trading, but his first love remains film.

Forbes further states, "He sunk wells where there were none and struck black gold," pointing out his "entrepreneurial experience" accumulated in "tumultuous times in Russia. Before that, the house was owned by Kenneth Panzer. He also produced The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (film), which won the Gran Prix at the 2013 Kinotavr film festival and at the 2013 Film Festival Cottbus. The $10 million film, set in North America, was shot on a Mosfilm studio backlot in Moscow. | Although he describes his interests in producing films as a "hobby" -- repeating that it is his daughter Julia who is the professional in this field -- Lebedev is keen to forge relations with U.S. producers to further his ambitions for making English-language movies. "There was a time when I, myself, planned to study film at USC," reflects Lebedev, who lived in California for a few years before and after the birth of Julia, his first daughter. He is a helmsman and co-owner of this team. He believes a key opportunity to produce an English-language version of Hipsters was lost at the time. Julia Lebedeva (born 26 February 1978) is a former competitive figure skater who represented Russia and Armenia.Lebedeva competed for Russia until 1999, when she switched to competing for Armenia. | Cookie Settings. His approach is to produce entertaining films for a wide audience that are also thoughtful, he said, citing The Geographer Drank His Globe Away. He is COO and Director, Douglas Emmett, Inc. Leonid Lebedev is a Cypriot-Russian billionaire businessman, and a former elected representative in Russia's Upper House of Parliament. Not given to seeking publicity, Lebedev made headlines three years ago when he and three other billionaires, Vladimir Potanin, Mikhail Prokhorov and Viktor Vekselberg were given a public dressing down by President Vladimir Putin, who accused them of being flush with cash but doing little to develop their flagging oil companies.
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In 1988 he co-founded the company, which according to Forbes Russia now ranks 154th among private companies in Russia. With the help of his American daughter, Julia Lebedev, a USC graduate living in Los Angeles, Lebedev has entered the US film industry. Also in production is The Prophet, an animated feature based on the spiritual verses of Lebanese-born poet Kahlil Gibran, with voices provided by Liam Neeson and Salma Hayek, among others. Anyway, the obviously enormously wealthy buyer’s identity is carefully cloaked behind a boringly-named LLC, but the trail leads directly back to a renovated house in the historic Los Feliz area of Los Angeles that’s owned by a young lady named Julia Lebedev (or Julia Lebedeva, as is the correct spelling) and her husband Jonathan Moss.

Terms of Use | "[7] He is a co-founder and a co-owner of the "Red Arrow" film studio in Russia. Forbes Russia edition last year estimated that his oil company SINTEZ Group had an annual turnover of $1 billion and ranked 154th in the 200 largest private companies in Russia. Julia Lebedev is a producer and actress, known for Bad Education (2019), Dear White People (2014) and Dear White People (2017). Sitemap | The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC. [5], He frequently participates in sailing competitions on his RC44 yacht with the Russian sailing team Synergy. Leonid Lebedev was born in Moscow. Lebedev's comments are unusual, however, because after years of rumors in Hollywood about "rich Russians" providing cash for productions, Russian money still prefers not to advertise its private investments. [5], In 1989 Lebedev co-founded Sintez Records, a recording studio and label for underground rock artists. Lebedev is sole owner of Sintez Group,[2] a privately held energy, oil and gas and property development company with more than $1 billion in annual sales. Lebedev supports many philanthropies in culture and education. The film producer and daughter of Russian billionaire Leonid Lebedev paid $27m for this house in 2016. A quarter century after he founded a "cooperative" film, TV and music production shingle, the 57-year-old businessman is planning to put his money and clout behind English-language co-productions. Those things happen in Russia where the Kremlin takes an active role in steering the energy sector. ), In 2017, it was reported in The Guardian that Lebedev had acquired Cypriot citizenship through a "Golden visa" scheme.[1]. EMAIL ME. "[5], In Western Siberia, Sintez built an oil production plant, called Negusneft, developed its infrastructure, and undertook industrial trading and exports. [5], In 2013, Lebedev earned a PhD by Belgorad State Technological University in colloidal chemistry (the topic of PhD dissertation: Colloidal and electrochemical aspects of anticorrosion protection of structural steel in nuclear power plants equipment.

A philanthropist and keen sailor in his spare time -- his father was an officer in the Soviet navy -- Lebedev is also a major sponsor of the New National Contemporary Arts Center in Moscow and a member of the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament.