Kirill Sergejewitsch Sokolow

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Kirill Sergejewitsch Sokolow ( Russian Кирилл Сергеевич Соколов ; * 1989 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a Russian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Kirill Sokolow was born in 1989 in Saint Petersburg , then Leningrad. In 2006 he graduated from the Lyceum at the St. Petersburg High School, after which excellent performance at a regional physics Olympiad secured him studies at the Polytechnic University of his hometown. After completing his master’s degree in nanostructural science in 2012, he took part in several scriptwriting and directing workshops and made his first own films, mostly with extremely black humor. In his half-hour short film The Flame , which Sokolov directed and wrote the script, he worked with extremely drawn out action scenes. He is considered to be the inventor of the "Western Gore Apartment". He started this new film genre with his feature film debut Why don't you just die! fort, a splatter chamber play that denounces the social problems in Russia with a lot of black humor.

Filmography

  • 2012: Byvaet i khuzhe (short film)
  • 2012: Sizif schastliv (short film)
  • 2014: The Outcome (Исход, short film)
  • 2015: The Flame (Огонь, short film)
  • 2018: Why don't you just die! (Папа, сдохни / Papa, sdochni )

Awards (selection)

Fantasy film festival

Montreal Fantasia International Film Festival

  • 2019: Award for best feature film (Why don't you just die!)

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

  • 2019: Nomination as Best European Fantasy Film for the Méliès d'argent (Why don't you just die!)

Sitges Film Festival

  • 2019: Nomination for best film in the Midnight X-Treme section (Why don't you just die!)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Why don't you just die! In: exground.com. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ Interview - Kiril Sokolov, director and writer of Why Don't You Die! In: poff.ee, December 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Tracks - Special Horror. On Arte, broadcast on January 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ Tracks - Special Horror. In: ard.de. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  5. ↑ competition. In: fantasyfilmfest.com. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  6. ↑ https://filmpulse.net/fantasia-2019-award-winners-announced/
personal data
SURNAME Sokolow, Kirill Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соколов, Кирилл Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union