Festivals: call for entries

Alternativa invites: Impact Distribution Lab

 

Deadline: 30.09.2025

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Almaty Series Festival and Series Mania Open New Horizons

 

Almaty, Kazakhstan / September 22-26, 2025

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The upcoming Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in 2026, with Latin America as the focus region 

 

Guadalajara, Mexico, June 10, 2025 – Alternativa has announced that the 3rd edition of the Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in Q2 2026, with an expanded prize fund of120,000 USD (an increase of 20,000 USD from the previous edition) and a new award categoryfor a feature film from the focus region, bringing the total number of awards to seven. The opencall for submissions runs from June 10 to October 10, 2025. Feature-length films of all genresare accepted from Latin America and Asia, while the short film categories are reservedexclusively for Latin America.

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Kyrgyz Cinema
Shamil Djaparov
Contacts:
Work address: TRC Ordo 73a, Karasaeva Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Phones: 
work: +996 (312) 54 01 00
mob.: +996 (775) 58 24 03
Fax: +996 (312) 54 03 33
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Date of birth: 04.01.1958

 

Education:  All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, director  department,

Studio of feature film and telefilm by People's Artists of UUSR A.A. Alov and V.N. Naumov, Moscow

  

Honourable members of the Oscar club (USA)
 
  
Filmography
 
Long fiction:
 
2019: "Ladybug" - in post-production 
 
Short film:
 
1983 "Nomads' camp of spaceman"
    Grand prize of the International festival of documentary and short    films, Oberhauzen (FRG)
    Prize of the International film criticism FIPRESSI
    Grand prize of the International festival, Babelsberg (GDR)
    Grand prize of the International students'  films festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
    Prize for the best direction of the International festival, Tomar (Portugal)
    Jury’s prize of the International festival, Belbao (Spanish)
    Prize named after A.P. Dovjenko of the International festival, Kiyiv (Ukraine)
    Prize «Golden halo» from American Motion Picture Academy Council
    Special honorary prize «Friendship of nations», festival «Amirany-84», Tbilisi
    Jury’s prize of the International festival, Mongeim (FRG)
1983 "Send-off"
1984 "License for murder" - Special prize of the show-competition, Ashkhabad
1985 "Through mountains, through distance" 
1986 "One-woman man…"
1986 "Frunze-Calub" – Special jury’s prize of all-USSR festival «Youth-86», Kiyiv (Ukraine)
 
Documentary films:
 
1987 "Bolshoi Theatre in Kyrgyzstan"
1988 "Run by eyes of sprinter"
1988 "Don’t drive off the pleader"
    Prize «The best years documentary»of the show-competition, Kyrgyzstan (1993y.)
1995 "What is the other side of the curtain?"
1995 "Peace to our house"
1996 "Believe us"
1997 "Gold of Kumtor"
1997 "Gold of Kumtor – 2"
1997 "Kerme Too"
1997 "The lessons of the Kalyan minaret"
1997 "Zilzala"
2006 "Ihlas" – 2 parts
 
Also a few series of television reel