Sergei Dvortsevoy

Sergei Vladimirovich Dvortsevoy (Kazakh: Серге́й Влади́мирович Дворцево́й; born 18 August 1962; Shymkent) is a Kazakh filmmaker, documentary director, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, producer. His 2008 feature film Tulpan, was Kazakhstan's 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 (1936-2005), engineer-geodesist, mother — Dvortsevaya Vera Petrovna (1938), engineer-cartographer. Graduated from Shymkent Secondary School No. 29. At the same time, he was engaged in football at a children's 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.