filmdirector, art director, animator

(07.02.1948)

Elchin Hami Abdul oglu Akhundov was born on February 7, 1948 in Baku. In 1968, he graduated from the Azerbaijan State Art School named after Azim Azimzadeh and a two-year “animation artist” course at the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio. He studied graphics at the Lviv Institute of Printing (1978). From 1966 until now, he has been working as a production designer, animator, production director in the field of cinema. For young children from the series “Your first book” “Learn and work together”, “Ecological alphabet”, “Alphabet 1” and “Alphabet 2”, he even compiled the book dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Uzeyir Hajibeyov. In 1994-2000, he worked as the artistic director of the animation film studio “Azanfilm”, and in 2000-2012, he worked as its director. Honored cultural worker (2000), winner of the “Golden Lamp” and “Unknown Cinema” festivals. In 2002, he worked as a jury member of the Cairo Children’s Festival, in 2010 of the “Altyn Jebe” Festival of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and in 2011 and 2012 of the “Animayovka” animation festivals. From 2016 to today, he continues to work as the head of the “Gurama” Children’s Animation Studio. In 2018, he was a member of the organizing committee and chairman of the jury of the 1st Baku International Animation Festival “ANIMAFILM 2018”.

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FILMOGRAPHY:

1. “Dwarf” (artist and decorator)-1969
2. “Lion and two oxen” (phase artist)-1970
3. “Fitna” (animator)-1970
4. “Bear and Mouse” (artist and decorator)-1970
5. “Why is the cloud crying?” (painter’s assistant)-1973
6. “Prince black gold” (artist’s assistant)-1974
7. “Pyspisa Khanum and Sichan Bey” (artist’s assistant)-1974
8. “Girl, boy and lion” (film artist)-1974
9. “Claw, ear, palaz, thorn” (assistant director)-1976
10. “Dingyl, my saz, dingyl” (structural artist)-1976
11. “Shah and Servant” (structural artist)-1976
12. “Dash” (structural artist)-1977
13. “Hedgehog cub and apple” (structural artist)-1977
14. “Toral and Zari” (structural artist)-1979
15. “Man comes to the forest” (Gurushuchu artist)-1980
16. “Dwarf-wrestler” (structural artist)-1981
17. “Child and wind” (director)-1982
18. “Dwarf and Giant” (structural artist)-1983
19. “Flying Giraffe” (structural artist)-1983
20. “Steps of five years” (documentary film, director)-1983
21. “Pursuit” (establishment artist)-1984
22. “Humai’s dream” (structural artist)-1985
23. “Adventures of Quiet Yo” (structural artist)-1985
24. “Test” (structural artist)-1985
25. “Selfish baby elephant” (structural artist)-1987
26. “Out of the norm” (“Majlis novella”) (director, set designer)-1988
27. “Mirror” (director, production designer)-1990
28. “False Shepherd” (structural artist)-1991
29. “Hope” (director)-1992
30. “Sea voyage” (director, set designer)-1992
31. “Sohbatul Asmar” (director, set designer)-1994
32. “Javanshir” (director, set designer)-2002
33. “Mirror” (director, production designer)-2003
34. “Gold” (director, production designer)-2004
35. “Cat and mouse” (artistic director)-2007
36. “Brave plane” (artistic director)-2009
37. “Caterpillar’s dream” (artistic director)-2009
38. “Snake’s house” (director, production designer)-2011
39. “Little House” (artistic director)-2012
40. “Lala’s dream” (artistic director)-2016
41. “Arif’s joy” (artistic director)-2016
42. “Mother and three sons” (artistic director)-2016
43. “The story of teacher Ali” (artistic director)-2016
44. “Naughty cat” (artistic director)-2016
45. “Big brother’s help” (artistic director)-2016
46. “Ant and Elephant” (artistic director)-2016
47. “The first snow” (artistic director)-2016
48. “Happy girls” (artistic director)-2016
49. “In the Park” (artistic director)-2016
50. “Road accident” (artistic director)-2017
51. “Nowruz holiday” (artistic director)-2017
52. “Nowruz customs” (artistic director)-2017
53. “Tomi in the spring holiday (artistic director)-2017
54. “Village trip” (artistic director)-2017
55. “Dolphin and girls” (artistic director)-2017
56. “Care for the Motherland” (artistic director)-2017
57. “Lost baby elephant” (artistic director)-2017
58. “The most beautiful flag in the world” (artistic director)-2017
59. “Flight to Uranus” (artistic director)-2018