Taalaibek Kulmendeev is a Film Director, Producer from Kyrgyzstan. He is the Chairman of the Filmmakers Union of Kyrgyzstan, one of the founders of the Ak Iblis National Film Award and Coordinator of the Oscar Selection Committee of Kyrgyzstan. He was born in 1967 in Ysyk-Kol region, Kyrgyzstan. From 1988 – 1992 he worked as an administrator and film production manager at the Catharsis Creative Production Association (Alma-Ata) and Saltanat Studio. From 1992 – 2002 he has been the Head of National Production Foundation and film director and producer at the Advertising and Marketing Agency within the system of State TV and Radio Corporation. During 2002-2004 he studied at the Rosebud Academy of New European Cinema and Television (Roma, Italy) He was the Director of the Republican Cinema House named after Chyngyz Aitmatov and the Head of the Kyrgyzfilm National Film Production Studio named after Tolomush Okeev.
I am Oksana Zhukova, a TV journalist and a TV presenter. I have been a journalist for over 25 years. I worked as a production editor and a news announcer, the author and the presenter of the “Peninsula” program, a correspondent of popular Ukrainian and Russian newspapers and magazines, an editor of the Internet edition “Gallery of Stars”. I graduated from Simferopol State University, Faculty of Philology. I also obtained the second higher education and received the International Certificate in Kiev, at the Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting, specialization of Television Journalism. I am a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, and a member of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine. I am the head of the production center “ArtMedia” and of the international team of the information and art-publicity platform “ArtMedia. We Draw With the Words”. I am also the author of the projects of public diplomacy “ArtMedia-Tour. We are Together”, “Crimea With the Eyes of Foreigners”, “Stars about Crimea”. I am fond of painting. I write stories, novels, essays, as well as poems to my own paintings and to the paintings of modern artists from around the world in the author’s project “Poetic Illustrations
Ali Khamraev was born on 19th of May 1937 in Tashkent. He’s mother was Ukrainian and father, Irgash Khamraev, was an ethnic Tajik from Rishton (Uzbekistan). In 1956 after graduating high school Ali Khamraev entered the Directing Department at All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, a workshop of Grigory Roshal and Yuri Genik.
Between 1937 and 2020 years Ali has created 20 feature films, about 40 documentaries and TV films not only as a director but also a writer or co-writer. The most famous of his feature films that had big box office receipts are action movies “The Seventh Bullet” and “The Bodyguard”.
Ali Khamraev is a bright representative of author’s cinema, so his movie “Triptych” won a Grand-Prix at the film festival in Sanremo, Italy (1980), and the “The Man is after Birds” – the prize Silver Peacock for Best Director in the International Film Festival in New-Delhi, India (1976). His documentaries “Lenin and Turkestan”, “Tashkent Achievments” won the main prizes on USSR film festivals, and “I didn’t forget you” won the prize on The International Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ali Khamraev works in different genres such as drama, parable, comedy, adventure movie, musical, so he created opera-film “Dilorom” in 1968. Created on the Mosfilm studio “A Hot Summer in Kabul” (1982) was the reason Ali Khamraev was awarded the Order of Friendship of People.
The “Bo Ba Bu” movie was made in 1998 (co-production Uzbekistan – Italy – France) and it won a Grand Prix in The International film festival “Faces of Love” 2001.
In 2018 Ali Khamraev made his documentary movie “I didn’t forget you” in russian studio “ROCK”. It is dedicated to Ali’s father, Uzbek actor and screenwriter, sublieutenant Irgash Khamraev, who died in 1942 near Vyazma.
Ali Khamraev is a Honored Art Worker (1969) and Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1971). In April 2020 by order of National Agency Uzbekkino he created a movie “The Feat of the People” (screenwriter and producer) that talks about the contribution of the Uzbek people to victory over Nazism during the Second World War. And one year later also by order of Uzbekkino he made a feature film based on his own screenplay “The aroma of melon in Samarkand”.