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Sergei Dvortsevoy

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
August 18, 1962 (63 years old)

Place of Birth
Chimkent, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Shymkent, Kazakhstan)

Sergei Dvortsevoy

Biography

Sergei Vladimirovich Dvortsevoy (Kazakh: Серге́й Влади́мирович Дворцево́й; born 18 August 1962; Shymkent) is a Kazakh filmmaker, documentary director, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, producer. His 2008 feature film Tulpan, was Kazakhstan's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film category and was the winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

He was born on August 18, 1962 in Shymkent. Father — Dvortsevoy Vladimir Alexandrovich (1936-2005), engineer-geodesist, mother — Dvortsevaya Vera Petrovna (1938), engineer-cartographer. Graduated from Shymkent Secondary School No. 29. At the same time, he was engaged in football at a children's sports school, after which he was invited to the team of the second league "Ugolshchik" (Ekibastuz). Instead of continuing his football career in 1979, he entered the aviation school in Krivoy Rog and graduated in 1982. From 1982 to 1990 he worked in the Shymkent Air squadron. In 1988 he graduated from the correspondence department of the Radio Engineering Faculty of the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute.

In 1990, he entered according to an advertisement in the newspaper about the target recruitment from Kazakhstan for the department of directing non-fiction films of the VKSR (workshop of L. Gurevich, S. Zelikin). During his studies, he shot a short course film "Happiness" and a diploma film "Bread Day", which received several dozen Grand Prix at international film festivals. After graduating from the VKSR, he made documentaries "Highway", "In the Dark" and the feature film "Tulip". The film "Tulip" (2008) about the life of shepherds in the Kazakh steppe received the Main prize in the competition program "Un Certain Regard" of the Cannes Film Festival, as well as as many as 9 Grand Prix of international film festivals around the world. In 2018, the film "Aika" about the life of Kyrgyz migrants in Moscow was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Samal Eslyamova, who played the main role, was awarded the Cannes Festival Prize for Best Actress. The film also received the Grand Prix of the 28th International Film Festival in Cottbus (Germany), 190 films from 40 countries competed for the main award at this venue. In addition to the Grand Prix, the tape was also awarded the jury prize. On November 26, 2018, the film won the Grand Prix of the Tokyo Filmex Film Festival. On December 17, 2018, the film was included in the shortlist of contenders for the Academy Award in the nomination "Best Foreign Language Film".

On July 2, 2019, he became one of the members of the jury of the American Film Academy (along with 841 other participants from 59 countries).

Known For

Directing

2018Ayka...Director
2009Tulpan...Director
2004In the Dark...Director
1999Highway...Director
1998Bread Day...Director
1997La case de l'oncle Doc...Director
1995Paradise...Director
1992Styopa...Director
1989Under the Sun...Director
Untitled Film by Sergei Dvortsevoy...Director

Writing

2018Ayka...Screenplay
2009Tulpan...Writer
2004In the Dark...Writer
1999Highway...Writer
1998Bread Day...Writer
1995Paradise...Writer
1992Styopa...Writer
Untitled Film by Sergei Dvortsevoy...Screenplay

Editing

2018Ayka...Editor
2004In the Dark...Editor
1999Highway...Editor
1998Bread Day...Editor
1995Paradise...Editor

Production

2018Ayka...Producer
2004In the Dark...Producer
1998Bread Day...Producer
1995Paradise...Producer
Untitled Film by Sergei Dvortsevoy...Producer

Sound

2004In the Dark...Sound
1999Highway...Sound

Camera

1995Paradise...Director of Photography

Acting

2020Life is a Thrillas Self