Festivals: call for entries

Reception of applications for Kazan International Muslim Film Festival is still in progress

 

On February 1, submission for the XX Kazan International Muslim Film Festival started. The submission will last till June 1, 2024. The Selection Committee will finish its work by the beginning of July. After this, the official selection will be announced.

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ALTERNATIVA FILM PROJECT call for entries: Development Lab

 

Deadline: 28.04.2024

Bukhara, Almaty and online, June-October 2024

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Kyrgyz Serial: The contest of scripts (2024_kg)
 
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Friday, 11 September 2020 00:00

TV-Piramida-Morning time: New Kyrgyz Cinema in the Independence Period

 

August 28th 2020

Language: Russian

Gulbara Baiyshovna Tolomushova

Programme Director, “Umut” Forum of Young Cinema of the CIS Countries

 
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Biography 

 

Gulbara Tolomushova was born in Kyrgyzstan, and graduated from the Russian State University of Cinematography. She is a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Kyrgyzstan, Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique, and the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema. Ms. Tolomushova is a specialist at the Bishkek Movie House of the Department of Cinematography of the Ministry of Culture's Department of Information and Tourism of the Kyrgyz Republic. She is also editor and contributor to the Cinematography Development Fund (kyrgyzcinema.com), columnist of “Vechernii Bishkek” newspaper, and contributor the "Forum” and Kinokultura.com magazines. She has published a monography on “Territory Movistan. Kyrgyz Cinema in Faces” (1999), as well as a book on the “Power of Fragility and Toughness of Art. Women in Kyrgyzstan Cinema” (2017). She sits on the jury of many international film festivals, and attended the Berlin International Film Festival at the invitation of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2020.