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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Bolot Shamshiev

Contacts: Film studio "Kyrgyzfilm"
Work address: 1, Dinara Asanova Street, Bishkek, 720030, Kyrgyzstan
Phones:
work: +996 (312) 34 45 69
mob.: +996 (550) 15 90 49
Fax: +996 (312) 34 46 31
Date of birth: 12.01.1941 
Date of death: 21.12.2019
Education: All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, Studio of professor Alexandr Zguridi, Moscow
 
 People's Artist of Kirgizia (1975)
People's Artist of USSR (1991)
Premium laureate of Lenin Komsomol of Kirgizia (1969, for the film «Shot at the Karash pass»)
State premium laureate of USSR (1977, for the film «White ship»)
Premium The best actor début at Cinema-art festival of Central Asia and Kazakhstan (1963, for Larisa Shepitko film «Heat»)
 
 
Filmography
 

Popular science film:

 

1964 «Keeper of miraculous legends»

1965 «Manaschi»

    Grand-prize at the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen

 

Documentary films:

 

1966 «Shepherd»

 

Feature films:

 

1967 «Shot at the Karash pass»

1970 «Scarlet poppies of Issyk-Kul»

1971 «Karchysh» («Damnation»)

1974 «Echo of love»

1975 «White ship»

1978 «Among the people»

1979 «Early cranes»

1983 «Pitfall»

1986 «Snipers»

1988 «Climbing on Mount Fuji»