Fat Stupid Rabbit : Prix du meilleur premier film au Festival des films comiques "Smile Russia" à Astrakhan, 2007
Meat : Prix de la meilleure réalisation au Festival des Films d'Ecoles (Rencontres Henri Langlois) de Poitiers, 2003
Prix du meilleur premier film au Festival "Message to man" à Saint-Pétersbourg, 2003
Prix de la meilleure photographie au Festival du court métrage "Busho" à Budapest, 2008
Grand prix du Potenza Film Festival, Potenza (Italie), 2004
Grand prix au Festival de Bilbao, 2003
Born in 1966 in Berdsk, Novosibirsk region. He was the leading
actor of the Novosibirsk theatre “Red flame” in 1989-
1996.
Graduated from director’s department of the VGIK
(workshop of V.Khotinenko). Upon the results of studding he
was included into the President’s directory of intellectual
resources of Russia.
In 2002 he shot his first short-length film
“Meat” that received about 30 international awards and was
included by the Centre on Cooperation between TV and
Cinema Schools under the auspices of UNESCO (SELECT)
into the international programme of teaching cinema art as a
training manual.
In 2003 jointly with his friends set up the film
company “Tundra Film” at which he created his first longlength
film “Dull Fat Hare”. The film got several prizes at international
film festivals.