Volga-Dnepr Group Documentary Reaches The Final Of The New York Festivals’ International Television & Film Awards

A film documenting one of Volga-Dnepr Group’s biggest ever air logistics projects to supply a new gas processing plant in Papua New Guinea is a finalist in the 2014 New York Festivals’ International Television & Film Awards.

The “Welcome to paradise” film was submitted for an award in the documentary category and was judged by an international panel of experts. From the thousands of films originally entered into the competition from 50 countries, the judges ultimately selected seven films from five countries to go through to the final stage of the awards.

The winners will be announced during New York Festivals’ gala ceremony to recognise ‘The World’s Best TV & Films’ on 7 April in Las Vegas.

The “Welcome to paradise” documentary was written by Russian television reporter, Alexey Samoletov, and was released in 2013 by Quick Studio. It is devoted to the successful realisation of the international project to construct one of the world’s largest gas processing plants in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Companies from five countries, including Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines, took part in the project.

Volga-Dnepr’s support of the PNG project began five years before its first flight when it was part of the team involved in the planning of a new airport in the Papua New Guinea jungle close to the gas plant site, which was needed to support an ‘airbridge’ operation using Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 freighters to move critical heavy and outsize equipment. Following its first flight to the new Komo Airport in May 2013, Volga-Dnepr went on to successfully complete 88 An-124 flights over 103 days, delivering more than 6,000 tonnes of cargo.

New York Festivals’ (NYF) International Television & Film Awards are recognised as one of the top four most prestigious international festivals of professional filmmaking alongside the Cannes, Berlin and Venetian Film Festivals. It has been taking place since 1957, with works judged by famous directors, producers, writers, actors and other media experts from all over the world.