Sitora Alieva

Sitora Shokhinovna Alieva (Russian: Ситора Шохиновна Алиева) – film expert, director of the IFF “Faces of love” and the IIF Sochi, artistic director of the largest Russian national film festival “Kinotavr”, official delegate of Warsaw International Film Festival, lecturer at film schools and universities, juror at numerous film festivals, including Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, etc. Member of European Film Academy.

Sitora Alieva
Ситора Шохиновна Алиева
Sitora Alieva (2018)
Born (1963-10-04) 4 October 1963
Dushanbe, Tajik SSR
Occupation(s)film expert, artistic director of the Kinotavr film festival

Biography

Sitora Alieva was born in 1963 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. She made her film debut as an actress at the age of 7. In the following 9 years she had played about ten roles in different art and television films. In 1987 Alieva graduated from the scriptwriting and film history department (Evgeniy Surkov's class) of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Then she worked for Tajikfilm in Dushanbe and in 1991 promoted Tajik films at different venues around the world including Moscow International Film Festival.[1]

In 1991 she moved to Moscow and then began to work as Daniil Dondurey's, "Iskusstvo Kino" editor-in-chief, referent (1993-1996). In 1993 she began to work at “Kinotavr” conglomerate ran by Mark Rudinstein, and in 1999 became the director of its festival branches: IFF Sochi, IFF “Faces of Love” and the International Children's Arts Festival “Kinotavrik” (1999-2005).[2]

In 2005, after the “Kinotavr” brand was bought by Alexander Rodnyansky, only Russian part of the festival was left, IIF Sochi and IFF “Faces of Love” were stopped. Alieva has become the permanent artistic director of the Open Russian Film Festival “Kinotavr” – the largest national film festival of the country for now (the edition of Kinotavr-2022 is cancelled).[3][4][5]

Also, as a film expert and a festival professional, she lectures in Russia[6][7] and abroad.[8][9][10]

Since 90-s Alieva has been taking part in juries of numerous international, national, the CIS and the Baltics, student and short film festivals, including:

In 2007-2010 Sitora Alieva had been Russia's official delegate of the Rome International Film Festival.[34]

Strating from 2007 - official delegate of the Warsaw International Film Festival.

Having such an active international festival life, being part of an extensive international festival network and the main national film festival selector at the same time make Sitora one of the key figures in promoting new Russian cinema at the international film festival scene.[35]

References
  1. Алиева: Благодаря таджикскому кино я попала в поле фестивальной жизни, Rus4all
  2. Sitora Alieva at Kinotavr official website
  3. "Kinotavr" film festival. Profile, TASS News Agency
  4. Kinotavr fest’s focus is local pix, Variety
  5. Russia's biggest local film festival starts, The Hollywood Reporter
  6. Moscow School of New Cinema
  7. Лаборатория PROкино
  8. University of Pittsburgh
  9. CinemadaMare X edizione, Salvatore Verde presidente della giuria del festival
  10. Russian film week in Tajikistan
  11. Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Official website
  12. Cottbus sets sail on 16th Eastern journey, Cineuropa
  13. 22nd Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata Catalog
  14. Zurich Film Festival: Highlights, Variety
  15. Curtain to go up on film fete, The Hindu
  16. Kerala 2008 awards, FilmFestivals.com
  17. Venice shorts section opens with Bahrani's Plastic Bag, Screendaily
  18. RIFF 2009 Awards, Morgunblaðið
  19. Конкурс короткометражного кино на F5
  20. Le Havre, In A Better World amongst winners at Filmfest Munchen, Screendaily
  21. PRIZE WINNERS of the 27th WARSAW FILM FESTIVAL
  22. 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  23. LET’S CEE Film Festival
  24. Batumi International Art-House Film Festival News
  25. THE PRESENTATION OF FILM FESTIVAL “KINOTAVR” AND A MASTER CLASS BY SITORA ALIYEVA
  26. "2morrow/Завтра" расскажет о трудных подростках и жестокой любви
  27. Программный директор «Кинотавра» Ситора Алиева: «Я никогда не согласна с жюри!»
  28. PRESS CONFERENCE OF VIII ANDREY TARKOVSKY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ZERKALO (“THE MIRROR”)
  29. Sofia International Film Festival
  30. В Москве пройдет третья церемония вручения сценарной премии «Слово»
  31. Reykjavik film festival kicks off with I Killed My Mother
  32. El Gouna Film Festival Jury
  33. Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival, The Chinese Central Government's Official Web Portal
  34. Sitora ALIEVA at Kinoglaz.fr
  35. Kinotavr 2011: Russian Cinema as a State of Mind, KinoKultura
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