- Konstantin Bronzit
Konstantin Eduardovich Bronzit (b. April 12, 1965 in
Leningrad ) is an award-winningRussia nanimator and animationfilm director .He is a graduate of the
St. Petersburg Repin Institute of Fine Art in 1983. He worked as an artist-animator at the animated film studioLennauchfilm (Studio of Popular Science Films), which created educational animations. It was there that he completed his first film, "Merry-Go-Round" or "The Round-About" ( _ru. Карусель, Karusel), in 1988.In 1992, he graduated from the
V. Mukhina Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial Academy and in 1994 from the "Higher Courses in Scriptwriting and Directing inMoscow " under the tutorship ofFyodor Khitruk .From 1993-1995 he worked as a scriptwriter, director and animator at the Moscow Animation Studio "Pilot", where he created several short films. From 1996-1999 he worked at the studio
Pozitiv TV . In 1999 he completed his short film "At the Ends of the Earth", which was aggressively pushed around thefilm festival circuit by the French distributorFolimage , eventually gathering nearly 70 awards. [ [http://www.humanrightsanimationproject.org/english/html/konstantin_bronzit.html Konstantin Bronzit ] ]Since 1999 he has worked at
Melnitsa Animation Studio , where he served asart director in the projects "Adventures in Emerald City " (1999-2000) and "Little Longnose " (2003).In 2004 he served as the director of the animated feature film "
Alosha ". According to Bronzit, the very short timeframe (only a year was given to them to complete the film) forced him to write the script at the same time as the film was being animated. The film was a success in Russia, and spawned another two films by different directors in the same vein.His 2007 short film "
Lavatory Lovestory " won the Best Scenario Award at the12th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film and got the 3rd-best rating among the jury.References
External links
* [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_person&pid=20 Konstantin Bronzit] at the
Animator.ru
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* [http://www.melnitsa.com/pages/03cwhobronzit.html Short biography at Melnitsa Animation Studio]
* [http://vision.rambler.ru/users/suzdalfest/1/26/ "At the Ends of the Earth"] (watch for free, legally)
* [http://eng.ctb.ru/base/persons/?oid=332 CTB Biography]
* [http://www.kinokultura.com/reviews/R7-05alesha.html Article about his feature film "Alosha"]
* [http://www.cgtalk.ru/exc.php?id=bronzit Extensive interview with Bronzit] ru icon
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