Dmitry Davydov

Director, screenwriter, producer

Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Member of the Asia Pacific Film Academy.

Grand Prix winner, Best Director for the film «River» at the international short film competition of Baiqonyr Film Festival of Kazakhstan (2020). In 2021, won the «Best Director» of «White Elephant» awards — the Russian Guild of Film Critics — for the film Scarecrow". «Scarecrow» — is also the first Yakut film, which won the main prize at the Open Russian Film Festival «Kinotavr», as well as «Best Director’s Work» at the «Nika» Award.

«The Bonfire» became the winner of the «imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival» as well as the winner of other international film festivals. The Esquire magazine featured the film among the 33 best films of 2017.

Film critics find influence of Dmitry F. Dostoevsky, A. Tarkovsky, A. Hermann in his works.

According to RIA news agency, «the phenomenon of director-debutant Dmitry Davydov should be studied in cinematographic institutes.»

In 2021, Davydov, the master of Yakut cinema, was included in the list of «100 people changing the world» in the field of cinema by The Blueprint issue.

«I talked about the things I wanted to talk about and stayed true to my ideas…»

Location: Yakutsk, Russia