Rufat Hasanov
Azerbaijani film director
Rufat "Ru" Hasanov (Azerbaijani: Rüfət Həsənov; born 24 April 1987) is an Azerbaijani film director, producer, editor, and a voting member of the European Film Academy.
Early life and education
Born in Azerbaijan, Hasanov completed his secondary education at Quakertown Senior High School in Pennsylvania, graduating in 2003. He earned a B.A. in theatre with a minor in Russian Studies from Bates College in Maine (2005–2009). While at Bates, he took part in Black Factory, a landmark community performance project by William Pope.L. Hasanov went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Directing for Film & TV from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (HCFDS) in Moscow, graduating in 2012.
Career
After Bates, Hasanov joined Vice Media (then VBS.tv) in New York in 2009, working across editorial and production. In 2010 he moved to Moscow and directed promotional and interstitial content at TV Rain. Later in life, Hasanov attended Berlinale Talents and the EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) Producers Workshop before first attracting international attention with his debut feature Chameleon (2013) which earned a Golden Leopard nomination at the Locarno Film Festival.
He went on to edit high-profile projects—collaborating with directors such as Bakur Bakuradze, Natalya Merkulova and Alexey Chupov. His second feature, The Island Within (2020), won Best Director at the Sarajevo Film Festival, received the International Jury Prize at Festival Nouvelles Images Persanes (Vitré), and was Azerbaijan's submission for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
Starting in 2014, he has worked as a director at the Azerbaijanfilm studio.
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