Sergei Dvortsevoy

Sergei Vladimirovich Dvortsevoy Kazakh ?????? ???????????? ????????? born 18 August 1962 Shymkent is a Kazakh filmmaker documentary director screenwriter editor cinematographer producer His 2008 feature film Tulpan was Kazakhstans 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 19362005 engineergeodesist mother Dvortsevaya Vera Petrovna 1938 engineercartographer Graduated from Shymkent Secondary School No 29 At the same time he was engaged in football at a childrens 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 nonfiction 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 dOr 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