Sergey Vladimirovich Dvortsevoy (born 1962) is a Kazakh filmmaker of
Russian origin. His 2008 feature film Tulpan was Kazakhstan's 2009
Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film
category.Dvortsevoy worked as an aviation engineer. He worked for nine
years as a radio engineer at Aeroflot ; before studying film in Moscow
in the early 1990s. His films immediately garnered international
acclaim, receiving prizes and recognition at festivals around the
world, including the nomination of Bread Day (1998) for the
prestigious Joris Ivens Award at the Amsterdam International
Documentary Film Festival. The following year his work was presented
at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an institution dedicated to
Flaherty’s adherence to the goal of seeing and depicting the human
condition. Dvortsevoy’s documentaries are committed to observational
filmmaking. His subjectsâ€"people living in and around a Russia in
transitionâ€"try in their individual ways to eke out an
existence.Tulpan was Dvortsevoy's first fiction film; it was nominated
for the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Feature Film (which
it won) and Best Achievement in Directing. The Findling Award was
given to him for his first film Schastye.
Russian origin. His 2008 feature film Tulpan was Kazakhstan's 2009
Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film
category.Dvortsevoy worked as an aviation engineer. He worked for nine
years as a radio engineer at Aeroflot ; before studying film in Moscow
in the early 1990s. His films immediately garnered international
acclaim, receiving prizes and recognition at festivals around the
world, including the nomination of Bread Day (1998) for the
prestigious Joris Ivens Award at the Amsterdam International
Documentary Film Festival. The following year his work was presented
at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an institution dedicated to
Flaherty’s adherence to the goal of seeing and depicting the human
condition. Dvortsevoy’s documentaries are committed to observational
filmmaking. His subjectsâ€"people living in and around a Russia in
transitionâ€"try in their individual ways to eke out an
existence.Tulpan was Dvortsevoy's first fiction film; it was nominated
for the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Feature Film (which
it won) and Best Achievement in Directing. The Findling Award was
given to him for his first film Schastye.
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