Meet the Jury Members of the 2023 MAMI Mumbai Film Festival5 of 10
Dr Gulnara Abikeyeva | NETPAC Jury
Kazakh film critic and researcher Dr Gulnara Abikeyeva was an artistic director of the Eurasia International Film Festival in Almaty from 2005 to 2013. She launched the film magazine Asia-kino, served as editor-in-chief of Territoriya Kino, and produced TV programmes about Kazakh cinema. As a member of FIPRESCI and NETPAC, she is a frequent jury member at different international film festivals. She was a Fulbright scholar in the USA (2001–2002) and delivered lectures at Pittsburgh, Harvard, Yale, and Tufts Universities. Recently she was a research scholar in Japan (2018–2019) and delivered lectures at Hokkaido, Tokyo, and Kyoto Universities. She is the author of 10 books about cinema, mostly about Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries. Her first book, New Kazakh Cinema, was published in 1998, followed by Cinema of Central Asia: 1990–2001, which won the White Elephant Award, presented by the Guild of Film Critics of Russia. The book, Nation-Building in Kazakhstan and Other Central Asian States, and How This Process is Reflected in Cinematography (2006) received the prestigious national prize, 'Kulager', as the best book of 2007 in Kazakhstan. In 2013, she had three international publications: Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories, co-edited by Michael Rouland and Birgit Beumers (Great Britain); The Unknown New Wave of Central Asian Cinema, co-edited by Kim Ji-Seok (South Korea); and Makhmalbaf's Film House (Russia). Currently, she is a professor at Turan University in Almaty, where she delivers lectures on film history and film theory.
Kazakh film critic and researcher Dr Gulnara Abikeyeva was an artistic director of the Eurasia International Film Festival in Almaty from 2005 to 2013. She launched the film magazine Asia-kino, served as editor-in-chief of Territoriya Kino, and produced TV programmes about Kazakh cinema. As a member of FIPRESCI and NETPAC, she is a frequent jury member at different international film festivals. She was a Fulbright scholar in the USA (2001–2002) and delivered lectures at Pittsburgh, Harvard, Yale, and Tufts Universities. Recently she was a research scholar in Japan (2018–2019) and delivered lectures at Hokkaido, Tokyo, and Kyoto Universities. She is the author of 10 books about cinema, mostly about Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries. Her first book, New Kazakh Cinema, was published in 1998, followed by Cinema of Central Asia: 1990–2001, which won the White Elephant Award, presented by the Guild of Film Critics of Russia. The book, Nation-Building in Kazakhstan and Other Central Asian States, and How This Process is Reflected in Cinematography (2006) received the prestigious national prize, 'Kulager', as the best book of 2007 in Kazakhstan. In 2013, she had three international publications: Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories, co-edited by Michael Rouland and Birgit Beumers (Great Britain); The Unknown New Wave of Central Asian Cinema, co-edited by Kim Ji-Seok (South Korea); and Makhmalbaf's Film House (Russia). Currently, she is a professor at Turan University in Almaty, where she delivers lectures on film history and film theory.