Gulnara Sarsenova
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Gulnara Sarsenova graduated from Kazakh State University
in Almaty
, majoring in journalism. She completed training courses of film director at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
(VGIK) in Moscow
. She received additional vocational education at the University of Phoenix
in the United States
. During 16 years she successfully worked in business structures. Gulnara is the founder of deluxe merchandise network Fantsuzskiy Dom ("French House") in Kazakhstan. She is also a founder of a popular newspaper Novaya Volna ("New Wave") and the Revue magazine. The subject of her PhD
thesis is the aesthetics of youth television shows. In 2005 she founded her own production company Eurasia Film Production. She was awarded a French Bonaparte medal and a diploma of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the achievement in business.
In 2008 Gulnara Sarsenova has received the international Asian Film Maker of the Year award at Pusan International Film Festival
and the same year she was nominated for Oscar award with her film Mongol directed by Sergey Bodrov Sr. In 2005 and 2008 she was the organizer and general director for Eurasia International Film Festival and in 2010 she was the general director of the 2nd Kazakhstani-American Film Festival held in Almaty.
"Don't despise a weak cub, it can appear the son of a tiger." -Mongolian proverb
Little boy Temujin, who is to become Genghis Khan
, the ruler of the half of the world, overcame hunger, humiliation, slavery. He was hunted, betrayed. He survived, although it seemed impossible. His powers and mind seemed superhuman. He was supported with the love of Börte
, Genghis Khan's first and the most loved wife, who couldn't be taken away from him by anybody."
Tulpan
Bulat, the main character, demobilizes and comes back to his loved Kazakhstan. Bulat loves the vast steppe, dusks and dawns. He loves this whole world. He is a former sailor of the Pacific Fleet, and he wishes of becoming shepherd. And he will become one! But there is a problem: in order to get the flock of sheep he must be married. And there is only one girl around for many kilometers. But what a girl she is! And her name is Tulpan...
Awards
The film received a total of 53 awards at various International Film Festivals all over the world throughout 2008-2009.
The Market: A Tale of Trade
A semi-musical tale of cross-border black-market trade of Turkey and Azerbaijan; a comic film with a tragic undertow, an entertaining study of the forces of capitalism and globalization, inspired by the plays of Brecht and the films of Yilmaz Guney
.
In the Electric Mist
In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead is another popular Dave Robicheaux series of novels by James Lee Burke
.
Dave is thrust back 30 years. A hurricane had just hit the area and Dave was out cruising the thrashed swampland at night. In the distance he sees two men with a black man in tow. The black man is wrapped in chains and shot to death by his captors. For 30 years the unsolved murder has hung in the back of Dave's mind.
Dave does have some help though, provided indirectly by Elrod Sykes. Elrod speaks of seeing the ghosts of Confederate Army soldiers in swamps. He speaks to them and they give him some sense of guidance. Dave dismisses Elrod's story to alcohol induced haze. That is until Dave sees the ghosts himself. Now, a Civil War general is on Dave's side, providing sage advice that keeps Dave from getting completely out of control. Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
.
Produced by Michael Fitzgerald, Gulnara Sarsenova, Frederic Bourboulon.
Letters to an Angel
An independent single woman comes back home late at night accompanied by a man she met, who turns out to be the Writer. They spend a night together in her apartment. They both are infatuated and enchanted by each other. The Writer tells beautiful and romantic love fables, and the heroine, in return, tells him about her love sufferings and passionate love to two young men. The love story ends tragically - the heroine looses both men over one night. However the film ends unexpectedly, raising the question whether the Heroine's story is Writer's fiction or not? Did such woman really exist? Or is she just a fiction of the Writer?
Astana My Love
Episodic television series Astana – My Love is a romantic love story, full of intrigue, drama and entwinement of a number of stories. It is a story about main character Erlan, who saw long successful life ahead of him, but he is betrayed by his best friend Abzal and thus has to start his life all over again. Another character is a Turkish beauty Inzhu who arrives to Astana and finds her happiness here. This story could only happen in this blessed and wonderful place – in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. Only owing to this new glorious energy that this city is charged with, the story of young couple becomes more like a fairy tale. Astana is also a character in the film.
This is a story Astana connecting people and changing their fates.
The film Astana – my Love is a joint project of Kazakhfilm Studios named after Shaken Aymanov with the largest Asian TV company TRT
(Turkey). Film Format: 9 episodes, 44 minutes each, shot in a new, state-of-the-art-format Red One (digital cinema).
Baikonur
The magical love story centers on the French space tourist Julie (played by Marie de Villepin
), who lands in the steppes of Kazakhstan after her return from orbit, and the local villager Iskander (Alexander Asochakov), also known as Gagarin, who finds her in the stranded capsule and takes her back to his jurta. Since she has lost her memory, she thinks she is his wife and all kinds of misunderstandings arise. The first ever film that was allowed to be shot at the Baikonur cosmodrome
. Directed by Veit Helmer.
Al-Farabi University
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University , also called KazGU or KazNU, is a university in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Named after the Muslim scholar, it is the country's primary and largest university....
in Almaty
Almaty
Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...
, majoring in journalism. She completed training courses of film director at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov), VGIK for short, is a film school in Moscow, Russia.-History:...
(VGIK) in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
. She received additional vocational education at the University of Phoenix
University of Phoenix
The University of Phoenix is a for-profit institution of higher learning. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo Group Inc. which is publicly traded , an S&P 500 corporation based in Phoenix, Arizona...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. During 16 years she successfully worked in business structures. Gulnara is the founder of deluxe merchandise network Fantsuzskiy Dom ("French House") in Kazakhstan. She is also a founder of a popular newspaper Novaya Volna ("New Wave") and the Revue magazine. The subject of her PhD
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
thesis is the aesthetics of youth television shows. In 2005 she founded her own production company Eurasia Film Production. She was awarded a French Bonaparte medal and a diploma of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the achievement in business.
In 2008 Gulnara Sarsenova has received the international Asian Film Maker of the Year award at Pusan International Film Festival
Pusan International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival , held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan , South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia...
and the same year she was nominated for Oscar award with her film Mongol directed by Sergey Bodrov Sr. In 2005 and 2008 she was the organizer and general director for Eurasia International Film Festival and in 2010 she was the general director of the 2nd Kazakhstani-American Film Festival held in Almaty.
Filmography
MongolMongol (film)
Mongol is a 2007 semi-historical film directed by Sergei Bodrov. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Bodrov and Arif Aliev. Producers for the film comprised Bodrov, Sergei Selyanov and Anton Melnik. The film is based on the early life of Temüjin, who later came to be known as...
"Don't despise a weak cub, it can appear the son of a tiger." -Mongolian proverb
Little boy Temujin, who is to become Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death....
, the ruler of the half of the world, overcame hunger, humiliation, slavery. He was hunted, betrayed. He survived, although it seemed impossible. His powers and mind seemed superhuman. He was supported with the love of Börte
Börte
Börte was the first wife of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire. Börte became the head of the first Court of Genghis Khan, and Grand Empress of his Empire. Little is known about the details of her early life, but she was betrothed to him at a young age, married at 17, and then...
, Genghis Khan's first and the most loved wife, who couldn't be taken away from him by anybody."
- NIKA Russia 2008 film awards
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Photography
- Best Sound
- Best Art Directing
- Best Costumes
- Academy Award
- Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film 2008
Tulpan
Tulpan
Tulpan is a 2008 Kazakh drama film. The film is directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy and distributed by . Tulpan is Kazakhstan's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film category...
Bulat, the main character, demobilizes and comes back to his loved Kazakhstan. Bulat loves the vast steppe, dusks and dawns. He loves this whole world. He is a former sailor of the Pacific Fleet, and he wishes of becoming shepherd. And he will become one! But there is a problem: in order to get the flock of sheep he must be married. And there is only one girl around for many kilometers. But what a girl she is! And her name is Tulpan...
Awards
- Cannes International Film Festival 2008, Grand prize UN CERTAIN REGARDS
- Prize of Young jury
- Prize of the French Ministry of Education,
- ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDSAsia Pacific Screen AwardsThe Asia Pacific Screen Awards is an international cultural initiative of the State Government of Queensland, Australia, through Events Queensland, to honour and promote the films, actors, directors, and cultures of Asia-Pacific to a global audience and to realise the objectives of UNESCO to...
- Asia Pacific Screen Awards Best feature film - Tokyo lnternational Film Festival 2008 - SAKURA GRAND PRIZE, Prize for the "Best Director"
- London BFI International Film Festival 2008 - Grand prize "The Sutherland"
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008 - First prize "East of West"
- Montreal International Film Festival of New Cinema 2008 - Grand-prize (Louvre d' Or)
- Zurich Int Film Festival 2008 - Grand prize "Golden Eye"
The film received a total of 53 awards at various International Film Festivals all over the world throughout 2008-2009.
The Market: A Tale of Trade
The Market: A Tale of Trade
The Market: A Tale of Trade is a 2008 international co-production drama film, written and directed by Ben Hopkins, starring Tayanç Ayaydın as a small-time blackmarket trader in a provincial town in Eastern Turkey tasked with procuring some valuable medicine...
A semi-musical tale of cross-border black-market trade of Turkey and Azerbaijan; a comic film with a tragic undertow, an entertaining study of the forces of capitalism and globalization, inspired by the plays of Brecht and the films of Yilmaz Guney
Yilmaz Güney
Yılmaz Güney, was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor from Turkey. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey.- Biography :...
.
- Best male actor (Tayanc Ayaydin) at the Festival De La Geiite
- IFF at Gente I Grand prize
- Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
- Best film
- Best script
- Best male actor (Tayanc Ayaydin)
- Best costumes (Zeynep Sarikaya)
In the Electric Mist
In the Electric Mist
In the Electric Mist is a 2009 Franco-American drama/mystical film based on the novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke...
In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead is another popular Dave Robicheaux series of novels by James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...
.
Dave is thrust back 30 years. A hurricane had just hit the area and Dave was out cruising the thrashed swampland at night. In the distance he sees two men with a black man in tow. The black man is wrapped in chains and shot to death by his captors. For 30 years the unsolved murder has hung in the back of Dave's mind.
Dave does have some help though, provided indirectly by Elrod Sykes. Elrod speaks of seeing the ghosts of Confederate Army soldiers in swamps. He speaks to them and they give him some sense of guidance. Dave dismisses Elrod's story to alcohol induced haze. That is until Dave sees the ghosts himself. Now, a Civil War general is on Dave's side, providing sage advice that keeps Dave from getting completely out of control. Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
.
Produced by Michael Fitzgerald, Gulnara Sarsenova, Frederic Bourboulon.
- Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival 2009
Letters to an Angel
An independent single woman comes back home late at night accompanied by a man she met, who turns out to be the Writer. They spend a night together in her apartment. They both are infatuated and enchanted by each other. The Writer tells beautiful and romantic love fables, and the heroine, in return, tells him about her love sufferings and passionate love to two young men. The love story ends tragically - the heroine looses both men over one night. However the film ends unexpectedly, raising the question whether the Heroine's story is Writer's fiction or not? Did such woman really exist? Or is she just a fiction of the Writer?
Astana My Love
Episodic television series Astana – My Love is a romantic love story, full of intrigue, drama and entwinement of a number of stories. It is a story about main character Erlan, who saw long successful life ahead of him, but he is betrayed by his best friend Abzal and thus has to start his life all over again. Another character is a Turkish beauty Inzhu who arrives to Astana and finds her happiness here. This story could only happen in this blessed and wonderful place – in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. Only owing to this new glorious energy that this city is charged with, the story of young couple becomes more like a fairy tale. Astana is also a character in the film.
This is a story Astana connecting people and changing their fates.
The film Astana – my Love is a joint project of Kazakhfilm Studios named after Shaken Aymanov with the largest Asian TV company TRT
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, also known as TRT , is the national public broadcaster of Turkey and was founded in 1964. Around 70% of TRT's funding comes from a tax levied on electricity bills and a sales tax on television and radio receivers...
(Turkey). Film Format: 9 episodes, 44 minutes each, shot in a new, state-of-the-art-format Red One (digital cinema).
Baikonur
The magical love story centers on the French space tourist Julie (played by Marie de Villepin
Marie de Villepin
Marie Galouzeau de Villepin is a French model, actress and singer. She is the daughter of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. She has a brother, Arthur, and a younger sister, Victoire. She graduated with the "licence" degree in law from the French university "Panthéon Assas Paris II" in...
), who lands in the steppes of Kazakhstan after her return from orbit, and the local villager Iskander (Alexander Asochakov), also known as Gagarin, who finds her in the stranded capsule and takes her back to his jurta. Since she has lost her memory, she thinks she is his wife and all kinds of misunderstandings arise. The first ever film that was allowed to be shot at the Baikonur cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome
The Baikonur Cosmodrome , also called Tyuratam, is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, about east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tyuratam railway station, at 90 meters above sea level...
. Directed by Veit Helmer.