Dmitry Davydov (filmmaker)
Dmitry Leonidovich Davydov is a Russian film director. His first film, Bonfire, was screened at the 21st Busan International Film Festival, and won an award for best dramatic feature at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. It was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. This is the first film produced in the Sakha Republic which won a festival award outside of Russia. On April 29, 2017 he won an award best film director at the national filmfestival named #DVIZHENIE.
Davydov was born in Amga and graduated from a university in Neryungri. He subsequently returned to Amga and took a job as a schoolteacher. He now works in Chapchylgan, Amginsky District, Sakha Republic, as the director of the Filipp Lobanov Chapchylgan School. He is married and has two children.
Davydov has no training in cinema, except for attending several master classes in Yakutsk. He produced the screenplay for Bonfire himself, writing it in Russian; the screenplay was later translated to Sakha. To produce the film, Davydov had to take a loan. The characters are played by inhabitants of Amga, who by no means are professional actors.
