Jamil Aligulu oglu Farajov was born on February 13, 1946 in Baku in an intellectual family. In 1964, after graduating from the 10th grade of secondary school number 34 in Baku, he was admitted to the oil field faculty of the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemical Institute named after M. Azizbeyov and graduated in 1969. During his studies, he was interested in cinema and theater – he was one of the organizers of the institute’s amateur film studio and the student theater called “Spektr”. In the same year, he entered the correspondence department of the Faculty of Television Directing of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography and graduated in 1974. Since 1970, he has been working as a director in the documentary films association of “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio. While working in the national cinema, he was the director and screenwriter of dozens of documentaries, plots for the satirical film magazine “Mozalan”, the feature television film “My wife, my children”, and chronicled film magazines. From 1984 to 1990, he worked as the secretary of the party organization of the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio, from 1990 to 1995, as a member of the Central Election Commission. During those years, he worked in various managerial positions in the film studio. In 1973, he became a member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. In 1989, he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 1997-2002, he was the artistic director and director of the “Yaddash” documentary film studio. Since 1998, he has been the secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of Azerbaijan. In 2002-2006, he worked as the director of the cinematography department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and in 2006-2012, he worked as the sector manager of the cinematography department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Since 1999, he has been a member of the Professional Film Directors Guild of Azerbaijan. Jamil Farajov died on August 1, 2023.

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2. https://aqreqator.az/az/medeniyyet/245371

FILMOGRAPHY:

1. Treasure (1970, short feature film) – director
2. Heavy closet (1971, short feature film) – director
3. The Master (1971, term paper) – screenwriter and director
4. Azerbaijan school on the rise (1972, short documentary) – director
5. Mikayil Abdullayev (1972, short documentary film) – director
6. Yadigar (1972, documentary) – director
7. Souvenir (1972, short documentary film) – director
8. Residents of the village of Musakucha (1973, short documentary film) – director
9. Disaster-rescue and recovery works in oil and gas extraction regions (1974, short documentary film) – director
10. Azerbaijan-75 (1975, documentary film) – screenwriter and director
11. Goldfish (1975, short documentary film) – director
12. Underground story (1975, short documentary film) – director
13. Sea voyage in “Azerbaijan” (1976, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
14. Torch of Solidarity (1976, short documentary film) – director
15. Main Road of Time (1977, short documentary film) – director
16. My wife, my children – My wife, my children (1978, feature film, cinema-almanac) – director
17. Fire Soldiers (1978, short documentary film) – director
18. Coachman (1979, documentary) – director
19. Your position in life (1979, short documentary film) – director (together with Y. Efendiyev)
20. Gamigaya (1981, short documentary film) – director
21. Relay of Achievements (1981, short documentary film) – director
22. Family (1983, documentary) – director
23. House pole – hand pole (1982, short documentary film) – director
24. Longing for Jah-jah (1983, short documentary film) – director
25. We are from Azerbaijan (1984, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
26. Second Life (1984, short documentary film) – director
27. The Delayed Diary (1986, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
28. Farhad (1987, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
29. Eclipse (1989, documentary film) – director, screenwriter
30. Ayna and Hamid (1990, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
31. Azerbaijan and the Nobel brothers (1992, short documentary film) – director, (together with M. Rzayev)
32. Flagship of Oil Engineering (1993, short documentary film) – director
33. Azerbaijan cinema-80 (1996, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
34. Journey to the water (1996, short documentary film) – director
35. You are always with us (1998, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
36. This is Nakhchivan (2000, documentary film) – director
37. Azerbaijan – German friendly relations (2006, short documentary film) – director (together with E. Musaoglu)
38. The third call (2008, short documentary film) – director
39. I love Baku (2014, short documentary film) – director
40. The Stone Chronicle of History (2014, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
41. Always Yashar (2016, short documentary film) – director
42. Vidadi Babanlı (2017, documentary television film – AZTV) – director
43. Flight to Eternity (2018, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter
44. Genocides perpetrated by Armenians (2018, TV documentary – AZTV) – director
45. Republic of Azerbaijan-100 years (2018, documentary television film-AZTV) – director
46. Academician Murtuza Nagiyev (television documentary film) – director
47. Our malakans (2019, short documentary film) – director, screenwriter