Gulshat Omarova

Gulshat Omarova
Gulshat Omarova
Born	Gulshat Diasovna Omarova; October 8, 1968; Alma-Ata, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
Nationality	Kazakh
Occupation	Actress, film director, screen writer
Years active	1984–present

Gulshat Diasovna Omarova (Kazakh: Гүльшад Диасқызы Өмарова, Gúlyshad Dıasqyzy Ómarova; sometimes credited as Guka Omarova, born 8 October 1968) is a Kazakh film director, actress and screenwriter. She was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and now lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2004, Omarova was presented the Alice Award for Best Female Director by the Copenhagen International Film Festival for her film, Shiza.

Biography

Gulshat Omarova was born in Alma-Ata to a family of a journalist. Her father was the famous sports writer Dias Omarov and her mother worked in Vechernyaya Alma-Ata". Her grandmother was the director of the High Mountain Ice Skating rink and her grandfather was a high official in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Omaravo first starred in the movie “Sweet Juice Inside Grass,” with the instruction of director and author Sergei Bodrov. She went to Moscow's Union of Cinematographers High School and later graduated. She then enrolled in the school of Journalism at Al-Farbi University and started to work in television as an assistant administrator, a courier, and utility worker. She also worked as an advertising specialist at a Tobacco company. She went back to school and in 1998, she graduated from the State Institute of Theatre and Cinema in Almaty on specialty "documentary film and television director". Since the early 2000s, she lives with her son and other in the Netherlands. In 2004, she wrote and directed the Shiza and received an Oscar nomination for her 2007 film Mongol.

Filmography

Year	Film	Position	Notes
1984	Sladkiy sok vnutri travy	Actress
2001	Sisters aka Syostry	Story
2004	Shiza aka Schizo or Fifty-Fifty	Director Writer	Alice Award for Best Female Director
2007	Mongol aka The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan	2nd Unit Director Casting Director	Film was nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Film
2008	Baksy a.k.a. Native Dancer (film)	Director Writer
2010	A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries	Director Writer
2016	Darkhan (Documentary)	Director

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