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A Russian film company wants nearly $600,000 in state funding for a children’s movie about school drone competitions.

NG Production is developing Sky Lions, a movie about a sixth-grader named Lyovka who loves computer games and enters a school competition for piloting drones.

The proposed budget is 72 million rubles (about $838,000), with the producers requesting 50 million rubles (about $582,000) from Russia’s state-backed Cinema Fund.

The project is set to be directed by debut filmmaker Polina Kutikhina.

For now, the funding is being requested — it has not yet been confirmed as awarded.

Apparently, flying drones is the new school extracurricular.

Original source: BK / Kinometro