The Stars Will Guide Me / Zvozdy mne ukazhut put'

Credits

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Philipp Abryutin

Director
01/13/1986

Biography

Director of the "The stars will guide me" movie Philipp Abryutin is one of the brightest and most famous filmmakers of Chukotka (the Far North of Russia). As a representative of the Chukchi people, he is directing and producing films related to the culture and history of the Chukchi indigenous peoples of the Russian north. Philipp Abryutin was born in 1986 in Chukotka. From infancy, Philipp traveled the Russian Arctic with his parents who were doctors in a mobile medical group. While they were treating shepards, hunters, nomads and elders, he developed a deep connection to the land and its peoples. In highschool, Abryutin wrote literary works based on indigenous oral histories and was published internationally (including the Chicago Tribune & the Ford Report). He attended university at the All Russian Institute of Cinematography where his film PREVENTION OF REPEATED CRIMES won prizes from the Moscow International Film Festival VGIK (Best Director, Best Script, Spectator’s Award), Tromsø IFF, Taiwan IFF and others. IVAN AND IVAN, a short documentary he made that follows the lives of two indigenous reindeer herders premiered at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Tromsø IFF, SXSW, Montreal First People’s Festival where he won Best Film and held special screenings at the UN with the General Secretary in 2010. From 2011 to 2013, he was an Indigenous Film Circle Fellow where he honed his writing skills with mentor Mikael Olsen of Zentropa. During this time he also worked in Russian television. After finishing the film school in MOscow Philipp Abryutin created feature films that were successful at film festivals and from a wide audience: “Tragedy in the bay Rogers” (IFF Audience Award “Spirit of Fire”), “Closer than they are appears” (Best film MBKF “Radiant Angel”), “Dream team” (Prize of the International Film Festival “Crystal Spring”), “Anatoly Krupnov. He was” (Audience Award of the Moscow International Film Festival), etc. "The stars will guide me" is the new feature written and directed by Philipp Abryutin.

Filmography

2021 « Rev It up, Alex!», 6 episodes, web-series; 2019 «Dream team», 85 min., feature film; 2015 «The tragedy at Rogers Bay», 93 min., feature film; 2008 «Prevention of repeated crimes», 22 min., short film; 2009 «Ivan and Ivan», 17 min., short documentary film; 2007 «Sarafanov 's Childrens», 17 min., short film; 2005 «Nothing special», 22 min., short film.