Sam Klebanov

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sam Klebanov
Occupation	Film Producer
Date Of Birth	Apr 14, 1965(1965-04-14)
Age	59
Birthplace	Saint Petersburg
Country	Russia
Horoscope	Aries

Sam Klebanov Biography

Sam Klebanov is one of the most popular and richest Film Producer who was born on April 14, 1965 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Samuel Klebanov was born in Leningrad in 1965, however, he went to school and graduated from his high school in Moscow. From 1983 to 1985,, he was a member of the Soviet Army in the OSNAZ (radio intelligence) forces operating on the territory of the then GDR. In 1990, he graduated in Moscow State University. Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics with a specialization on Applied Mathematics.

The sphere of his interest for Klebanov isn’t limited to the cinema only. He was a regular columnist for The Russian edition of popular men’s magazine GQ.

In January 2016, Sam Klebanov left Arthouse and resumed independent film distribution activities under the brand Cinema without Borders. The most successful project of the revived Cinema without Borders was the release of Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Under the Sun.

In the fall of 2017, Sam Klebanov, in partnership with software developer Pavel Rabetsky, founded a start-up Cinezen Blockchained Entertainment AB in Sweden. The company’s goal was to create the world’s first decentralized VOD (video-on-demand) platform based on block technology. The startup received seed financing from the Austrian-Israeli Venture Fund AltaIR Capital. In February 2018, at the European Film Market in Berlin, Cinezen announced signing of the first-ever licensing agreements for the online distribution of films using blockchain technology and put into circulation a new term BVOD (Blockchain Video-on-Demand). The launch of Beta-version of Cinezen’s BVOD- platform was announced in October 2018.

The year 1996 was the time he established his company Maywin Media AB in Sweden to market Scandinavian films and television shows into Russia along with other CIS countries. The same year, he created the distribution firm Cinema without Borders, which concentrated on the release of arthouse films in Russia. The first film that was purchased by him to be released in Russian release it was Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano. Following that the director began to dive into the murky world of films. The following years, Cinema without Borders became the top player in the distribution of films by arthouse in Russia as well as the states of former USSR and released a number of films both for home and theatrical entertainment, which included works by directors like Takeshi Kitano Ruben Ostlund Dardenne brothers Michael Haneke, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Cristian Mungiu, Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Ki-duk and Park Chan-wook. Nuri Bilge Ceylan Abdelatif Kechiche, and many more.

Sam Klebanov Net Worth

Sam Klebanov is one of the richest Film Producer from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sam Klebanov 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sam Klebanov (Russian: Sem Klebanov Current name Samuel Klebanov (Russian: Samuil Iakovlevich Klebanov ) born on April 14, 1965 in Leningrad) is an Russian as well as Swedish director in the film industry, distributor of films and TV host. He is also a producer. Film business has been his forte since 1996. In the early 2000s , his business Cinema without Borders was the dominant force for distribution of arthouse films in Russia In 2015, it was also the co-founder of the Mosow-based distributor company Arthouse. In the years 2001-2008 He was the creator and presenter of the weekly program Magic of Cinema on the Russian-Kazakhstan’s television network.

In 1991, following the coup of August and the subsequent reunification of Europe, he emigrated to Europe and moved to Gothenburg, Sweden and in 1997 he became a Swedish citizen. Between 1993-97,, he was a software developer as well as a technical director for Swedish firms IFTECH Software AB and Software Engineering AB.

In the spring of 2015 he announced the launch of a new distribution outfit Arthouse in partnership with the American company Lorem Ipsum Corp. Under the new brand, Klebanov was going to continued to release independent and arthouse films in Russia in both theatrically and online, including such titles as Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeur, Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and Matthew Warchus’ Pride.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Sam Klebanov Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Sam Ranked on the list of most popular Film Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Sam Klebanov celebrates birthday on April 14 of every year.