Alexander Dulerayn


Alexander Dulerayn is a
Russian producer, director and script writer, general producer of TNT TV
channel, from 2018 to present –creative producer of the TNT TV
channel, Chief Content Officer of Storyworld Entertainment.

Biography

Alexander Dulerayn was born on August 21, 1966, in Grozny, USSR.
In 1989, he earned a degree in physics engineering from the National Research University of Electronic Technology.
In 1995, he graduated from Boris Yukhananov's Studio of Individual Direction with major in stage and screen
direction.

Professional career

Since 1991, as a producer, script writer and director, he has shot a number independent short-length films which later premiered and received awards at movie festivals in Frankfurt, Berlin,
Cottbus, Munich, Hamburg, Kassel, Edinburgh, Prague, Madrid, Graz, St.
Paulo, Kiev, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
In 1991, his short-length film 'Dachniki' won first prize at the International Festival of Short
Films in Hamburg.
In 1993, Dulerayn short-length movie 'Desire to Watch a Film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder' received
a special prize from New York Film Academy.
He was a participant of Parallel Cinema, an underground
movement in the Soviet and Post-Soviet filmmaking, which positioned
itself against the canons of the official art and independent films.
Alexander Dulerayn was a co-creators of 'CINE PHANTOM CLUB'.
Also in 1995, his short-length film 'The Youth of the Design Engineer' was awarded 2nd prize at the Exotica Festival in St. Petersburg and participated in 'New York Film
Archives' and the 'Russian Film Festival' in New York as part of the 'CINE PHANTOM' program.
In 1998, he started out on television as a copywriter on STS TV Channel.
In 1999, he assumed the duties of the executive producer of the broadcast promotion at STS. He is the author of the corporate slogan "First Entertainment Television".
In 2000, he became marketing director at STS.
Since 2002, he has been the Deputy General Director, Marketing Director, at the
TNT TV channel.
In 2002, co-authored by Sergey Koryagin, he released the first full-length feature film 'Ivan-Durak' later shown at
the Moscow International Film Festival and the festivals in Rotterdam and Cairo.
In 2005, his short-length film 'Offshore Reserves' was bought by
ARTE, nominated for the Best Film at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and shown at the
international movie festival in Salento, at festivals in Warsaw, Leeds
and Nashville.
Between 2008 and 2016, Dulerayn produced and created promotional campaigns for full-length films, such as
'The Best Movie', 'Our Russia. The Balls of Fate' and 'The Groom'.
In 2012, he directed, the Russian–USA sci-fi film 'BRANDED
aka Moscow 2017' starring Ed Stoppard, Jeffrey Tambor, Max von Sydow and Leelee Sobieski.
Roadside Attractions released the movie for the general public in the USA.
From 2013 to 2017, he was General Producer at TNT.
Alexander Dulerayn is one of the producers of the most successful products on TNT,
comedy and drama series popular in Russia - 'Our Russia', 'The Probation', 'Gym Coach', 'Olga',
'Infidelity', 'The Island', 'Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone' and dozens of other projects.
In 2017, the TNT audience exceeded 124 mln people. The channel was an absolute
leader for the 14-44 audience for 6 years in a row and the leader for the 18-30 young audience for 7 years. In 2016-2017, TNT owned 7 out of the 10 series topping search queries on the Russian Internet.
In 2017, Roman Petrenko and Alexander Dulerayn started developing TNT's
international domain in Storyworld Entertainment to produce English-language content for the global audience
based on books, scripts and series from Russia.
Alexander Dulerayn teaches 'Producing TV Series' in Boris Yukhananov's Studio of Individual Direction
.
Alexander Dulerayn has earned multiple professional awards in cinema and TV. During his stint with TNT, the channel has won 40 prizes from Promax BDA
Promotion, Marketing & Design Awards in London, Berlin, New York and Moscow.
Projects with his involvement have received 10 TEFI awards.
His projects have also won awards from the Association of Cinema and TV Producers, MEDIABRAND and Master of
Brandbuilding awards, to name just a few.

Awards and Honors

Screenwriting, 2015 – 'Gym Coach' TV Series
series
Comedy Series and Best Screenwriting – 'Olga' TV Series

Producer of TV series

All the above projects were made for TNT.
Alexander and his wife – Inna Dulerayn - live in London with their son Alexander and daughter Emma.