Taalaibek Kulmendeev
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Taalaibek Kulmendeev is a Film Director, Producer from Kyrgyzstan.
He is the Chairman of the Filmmakers Union of Kyrgyzstan, one of the founders of the Ak Iblis National Film Award and Coordinator of the Oscar Selection Committee of Kyrgyzstan.
He was born in 1967 in Ysyk-Kol region, Kyrgyzstan.
From 1988 - 1992 he worked as an administrator and film production manager at the Catharsis Creative Production Association (Alma-Ata) and Saltanat Studio.
From 1992 - 2002 he has been the Head of National Production Foundation and film director and producer at the Advertising and Marketing Agency within the system of State TV and Radio Corporation.
During 2002-2004 he studied at the Rosebud Academy of New European Cinema and Television (Roma, Italy)
He was the Director of the Republican Cinema House named after Chyngyz Aitmatov and the Head of the Kyrgyzfilm National Film Production Studio named after Tolomush Okeev.