| Akan Satayev | |
| Native Name: | Ақан Қарғамбайұлы Сатаев |
| Native Name Lang: | nk |
| Birth Date: | 1971 12, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation: | film director film producer actor |
| Children: | 5 |
Akan Satayev (born December 23, 1971) is a Kazakhstani film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Honored Worker of Kazakhstan[1] and laureate of State Award of the Republic of Kazakhstan.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
In 2016 Akan founded Astana Film Fund to support young Kazakhstani directors and low-budget indie productions en masse[.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://novoetv.kz/den-rozhdeniya-akana-sataeva-fakty-o-rezhissere|title= День рождения Акана Сатаева: факты о режиссере|language=ru|publisher= |date=2019-12-23|access-date=2023-05-05}}</ref> In the same year he shot 2 feature-length movies - “Districts”,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://astanatimes.com/2017/11/satayevs-feature-districts-snatches-asian-film-festival-award/|title=Satayev's feature "Districts" snatches Asian Film Festival award|language= en|publisher= astanatimes.com|date=2017-11-28|access-date=2023-05-05}}</ref> 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.[5] Mr. Satayev led Kazakhfilm, the largest movie studio in Kazakhstan between 2020 and 2022.[6] [7]
| Year | Title | Original title | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Producer | Screenwriter | Actor | Notes | ||||
| 2008 | Allazhar | Аллажар | Student Azat (main role)[8] | |||||
| 2007 | Racketeer | Рэкетир | Referee[9] | |||||
| 2009 | Strayed | Адасқан | [10] | |||||
| Brothers (TV series) | Ағайынды | [11] | ||||||
| 2011 | Liquidator | Ликвидатор | ||||||
| My Darling (series) | Айналайын | [12] | ||||||
| 2012 | Myn Bala | Жаужүрек мың бала | [13] | |||||
| 2013 | Bauyrzhan Momyshuly (TV series) | Бауыржан Момышұлы | [14] | |||||
| 2015 | Racketeer 2 | Рэкетир 2 | [15] | |||||
| Hacker | Хакер | [16] [17] | ||||||
| 2016 | The Road to Mother | Анаға апарар жол | [18] | |||||
| Districts | Районы | [19] | ||||||
| 2018 | Businessmen | Бизнесменыдер | [20] | |||||
| 2019 | Tomiris | Томирис | [21] | |||||
| 2021 | Boxer | Боксер | [22] | |||||
| 2022 | Dawn of the great steppe | Ұлы Дала Таңы | [23] |