Gulshat Smagulova
Directing
She was born in Alma-Ata. In 2002, she graduated from the Kazakh State Academy of Management, and in 2023, she completed her master's degree at VGIK (scriptwriting workshop of A.Ya. Inin and N.A. Pavlovskaya). She worked as a film production organizer and producer on such well-known projects as "Return to A" by Yegor Konchalovsky, "Waiting for the Sea" by Bakhtiyor Khudoynazarov, "Lottery" by Damir Manabayev, "The Path of the Leader" by Rustem Abdrashev, "Amanat" by Satybaldy Narymbetov, "That's How the Stars Aligned" by Sergei Snezhkin, "Olma John" by Victoria Yakubova, "Umai" by Inkar Abdrash, "I Call Fire on Myself" by Alexei Golubev. "Citizens of the Roof" is her directorial debut.
