Evgeny Shelyakin
1976 (48 лет)Born and raised in Krasnodar. As a child, he went to a theater studio, independently came up with performances, and at school I created my own show group. Yevgeny received his first professional education as an electrical engineer. In 1998, Shelyakin graduated from the Krasnodar law Institute of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia with the qualification "lawyer" and worked as an investigator in the police for 4 years. At the same time, Yevgeny Shelyakin became interested in KVN. In 1995-1998, he was the captain of the KVN team "The Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" and played in the Krasnodar city League and for the city's national team. Later, he became the captain of the Kuban Cossacks team, which reached the semifinals of the KVN Higher League in 1999.
In 2008, he graduated from VGIK with a degree in feature film Directing in the workshop of Valery Akhadov, where he currently conducts teaching activities. On television, Shelyakin worked as a screenwriter and director in entertainment programs, and also wrote scripts for TV series, including Afromoskvich and Happy Together. As an employee of the script department of Channel One, he worked on "New year's lights", which later turned into"Olivier Show". As a writer and director, he participated in the creation of the popular projects "Projectorperishilton", "Yesterday Live", and the animated animated show-parody "Cartoon Personality". On these projects, Yevgeny Shelyakin worked not only in the studio, but also directed on-site shooting of clips, sketches, and parodies of trailers.
In 2008, he made a short film "Freud's Dolls", and the film "B/W" became his directorial debut in full meter. Yevgeny Shelyakin's work was highly appreciated by the famous Russian film reviewer Yevgeny Bazhenov, who called him one of his favorite directors and starred in his film "Friday" as a cameo.
Хэппи-Энд
Evgeny Shelyakin
Mikheil Gomiashvili, Evgeniya Dmitrieva
Found unconscious and robbed on a beach in Thailand, 70-year old Xenophon only knows his own name because it was engraved on his old Soviet watch. He’s been left with no money and no identification…and he doesn’t speak a word of Thai. But Xenophon is a resourceful man. He begins to build a new life with friends and a new business, but there’s something disturbing in his past that he can only glimpse through his shattered memory. Is he really who he seems?
Good As New
About Love. Adults Only
Anna Melikyan, Natalya Merkulova
Джон Малкович, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.
About Love. Adults Only
Вечная жизнь Александра Христофорова
Evgeny Shelyakin
Aleksey Guskov, Timofey Tribuntsev
The misanthrope Alexander Christoforov, nicknamed "Alec", is a hopeless loser. The actor, who was celebrated in the Soviet era as the hero of "Eugene Onegin", is carving out a depressing existence as a bad paid figure of a ridicule historical show. Despised by his ex-wife, alienated from his son, Alec has totally screwed up his life. But when diagnosed with a mortal illness, he sets off on a ludicrous tour de force at the end of which a piece of eternity surprisingly awaits him - A comedy with a happy end.
The Eternal Life of Alexander Christoforov
Битва
Anar Abbasov
Rinal Mukhametov, Anna Isaeva
The dreams of passionate street dancer Anton are crushed when an accidental injury makes him deaf. But it is exactly at this difficult time that he meets his true love and finds his vocation. Anton learns to listen to the music that comes from the inside and to create his own music through a dance that will never be the same. He starts to teach dancing to kids with hearing impairments and prepares a unique act with them. He takes great risks joining his former team with deaf kids for a new dance to take part in the World Championship.
The Battle
Успех
Pavel Ruminov
Yuliya Snigir, Roman Kurtsyn
What price are you willing to pay for success? Since childhood, dreaming of becoming a rock star Lisa comes an offer from America, and she leaves the family - husband Artem and little daughter Vita. They once dreamed to go to America to make music with Artyom, but after the birth of their daughter they had to forget about creativity. Now Artem raises her daughter alone, interrupted by odd jobs. Once he is forced to speak with covers of Russian pop music at corporate parties. He takes Vita with him, and she unexpectedly rescues his father — he sings a song for him, the words of which he does not know. Their extravagant performance hits the Internet, collects millions of views, and attracts the attention of a famous producer. He promises to make them true stars. But Vita does not want to be a star at all - she wants her mother to come back ...
Success
Элефант
Alexey Krasovsky
Aleksey Guskov, Polina Agureyeva
In the center of the plot children's writer Valentin Shubin, accustomed to live in seclusion. His books about the elephant Mishka, written in his youth, enjoyed great success both at home and abroad. A series of random events causes a new surge of interest in the personality and creativity of the writer-introvert. Adults and young readers waiting for new books, but Shubin them does not want to write.
Elephant
Куклы Фрейда
Evgeny Shelyakin
Anatoly Belyy, Ilya Drevnov
We only think we are in control of our lives. But we are just puppets in the theater of our subconscious. The problems of psychologist Eduard and his patient Vitaly are unexpectedly interconnected. What to do about Eduardo? Help the patient to their own detriment or, forgetting everything, save their personal life?
Freud's Dolls
