Ilgar Safat

From 1995 to 2000 his poems were published in various newspapers and literary journals in Baku. He performed his own songs at various venues in Baku and Moscow. He is the author of nearly a hundred songs. In 2002 he graduated from the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Film Directors in Moscow, in the workshop of V.I. Khotinenko. In 2002, within the framework of the Caucasus Project, he made the film "Grandson of the Mountain," which represented Azerbaijan for several years in various European cities. After completing the Higher Courses, he worked for a year and a half as a director at the Far East Newsreel Studio in Khabarovsk. In 2003 he was awarded a diploma and prize by the Governor of Khabarovsk Krai for his film "Roots of the Sky." "Roots of the Sky" was screened in various cities around the world and took part in many Russian and international film festivals (New York, Leipzig, Barcelona, Prague, Augsburg and others). In Germany the film was included in the catalogue of the best ethnographic films. "Roots of the Sky" was placed in the library of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Ilgar Safat also works as a theatre director; in 2013 he staged a production of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" (Гордость и предубеждение) on the stage of the S. Vurgun Russian Drama Theatre. In November 2014, on the stage of the Russian Drama Theatre, he staged the production "The Artist and His Shadow" (author: Vladimir Stupinski), dedicated to the anniversary of Haji Murad Yagizarov.