Akan Satayev

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1971-12-23 (53 years old)

Place of Birth Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, USSR, (now Kazakhstan)

Also Known As Akan Sataev, Акан Сатаев, Akhan Satayev, Ақан Қарғамбайұлы Сатаев , Акан Каргамбаевич Сатаев, Akan Kargambaevich Satayev

Akan Satayev

Biography

Akan Kargambaevich Satayev (Kazakh: Ақан Қарғамбайұлы Сатаев; born December 23, 1971; Karaganda) is a Kazakh film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Honored Worker of Kazakhstan and laureate of State Award of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Akan was born to a family of actors, both his parents were recognized as People's Artistes of the Kazakh SSR and performed leading roles at Karaganda Drama Theater where he spent a lot of time. That theater became his first drama school, and in 1994 Akan graduated from Kazakh National Academy of Arts, Dept of Cinema and Television. While at the university, he played student Azat, the main character in Allazhar, a movie by Kaldybay Abenov about tragic events in Alma-Ata in December 1986. After graduation, Akan took part in various feature films and went into directing and producing advertising clips. Sataifilm, the company he founded in 2003, presented Racketeer, a crime drama and his debut movie, in 2007. In 2016 Akan founded Astana Film Fund to support young Kazakhstani directors and low-budget indie productions. In the same year he shot 2 feature-length movies - “Districts”, a teenage crime drama set in the USSR and The Road to Mother, a period drama about Collectivization in the Soviet Union, Eastern Front (World War II) and post-war years in Kazakhstan. Mr. Satayev led Kazakhfilm, the largest movie studio in Kazakhstan between 2020 and 2022.

Known For

Director

2023
2022
2021
Boxer

as Director

2019
2018
2018
Businessmen

as Director

2017
Alone

as Director

2016
Hacker

as Director

2016
The Road to Mother

as Director

2016
Districts

as Director

2015
Racketeer 2

as Director

2013
2011
The Liquidator

as Director

2009
Strayed

as Director

2009
Brothers

as Director

2007
Racketeer

as Director

Producer

2022
2022
The Assault

as Producer

2021
Boxer

as Producer

2019
Holidays Offline 2

as Producer

2019
2019
Dissolve

as Producer

2019
Holidays Offline

as Executive Producer

2019
A Dark, Dark Man

as Executive Producer

2018
2018
2018
Businessmen

as Producer

2017
Alone

as Producer

2016
The Road to Mother

as Producer

2016
Districts

as Producer

2016
Hacker

as Producer

2015
Racketeer 2

as Producer

2014
Kara Shanyrak

as Producer

2013
Against All Odds

as Producer

2013
2012
Live Broadcast

as Producer

2012
Debt

as Producer

2012
Girlfriends

as Producer

2011
The Liquidator

as Producer

2011
Bolashak

as Producer

2010
My Darling

as Producer

2009
Strayed

as Producer

2009
Brothers

as Producer

2007
Racketeer

as Producer

Writer

2023
Teach Me How to Live

as Screenplay

2021
Boxer

as Screenplay

2016
Hacker

as Story

Creator

2013
2009
Brothers

as Creator

2009
Brothers

as Creator