Mikhail Segal


Mikhail Yurievich Segal, is a Russian film director and writer.

Biography

Mikhail grew up in Oryol, Russia. As a schoolboy he was attending a theatrical studio at the local House of Pioneers, writing plays and staging performances. By that time he shot his first short-length works with amateur cameras.
In 1994 he graduated from Director Faculty of Oryol Institute of Culture. He was composing poems and songs and performing with his band "Music To The Touch".
In 1995, he entered Director Department of Russian State Institute for Cinematography in Moscow but dropped studies after the first year and started shooting video clips. His first appreciable work had become "Hello, Night" for "Ser'ga". Later on, Mikhail worked both with "pop-" and "rock-" performers but gained reputation of an "anti-cheapstuff" clip maker as a result. Amongst his well-known works are
He also worked with "Masha and Bears", "Notional Hallucinations", and many others.
In 2007, the clip "Tell" for Spleen was appointed the winner of The Best Music Video nomination at the MTV Russia Music Awards ceremony.
From 2002 on, Mikhail also works in advertising. He has shot commercials for Audi, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, LG, Ariel, IKEA, Alpen Gold, Pepsi, Fervex, Baltica, White Bear, MTS, Kievstar, MTV, Mail.ru, and many other brands.
In 2006 at XXVIII Moscow International Film Festival, Mikhail presented his first full-length film "Franz+Polina" interpreting the narrative "Dumb" by Ales Adamovich. The history of love of a Belorussian girl from an occupied village and of an SS soldier "has crossed the world" and got recognition at many Russian and international festivals.
In 2010, "AST" publishing house published Mikhail's first book of prose "Youth" containing a story of the same name and a collection of short novels. to support the book came out, featuring musicians whose music videos Mikhail directed.
In 2011, Segal shot a short film which was based on one of his novels, and the film won the short-film nomination at . The same summer, 3 other novels were shot, and a full-length movie «Short Stories» that got a widespread fame later on, was presented at the next 2012 Kinotavr.
In 2014, Mikhail Segal presented his third full-length movie , with the lead role by Alexander Zbruev, who by that time was not playing in cinema for already 10 years.
In 2018, the movie «» and the book were released.
Mikhail was a movie festival jury member at FIPA-2012, Baltic Debuts-2014, Kinoshock-2015, OIFF-2016, and others.
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Filmography

Actor

Franz+Polina

2006 – Participant of XVIII Moscow International Film Festival
2006 – Prize-winner XVI, Cottbus International Film Festival,
2006 – Participant of Russian Cinema Week, Paris and Berlin
2006 – Official participant, XVI Camerimage International Film Festival, Lodz,
2006 – Grand Prix and Best Female Performance Award, S. F. Bondarchuk Military-Patriotic Film Festival "Volokolamsk Line" 2006
2006 – Special Jury Diploma and Best Female Performance Award, XV International Film Festival “Kinoshock”, Anapa
2007 – Best Principal Female Role and Best Episodic Female Role awards, Dramatic Art Festival "Constellation", Tver,
2006 – Special Jury Award "Baltic Debuts", International Film Festival, Svetlogorsk
2006 – Best Debut and Best Photography awards, "Listapad" Film Festival", Minsk
2007 – Grand Prix for best film, 21st Cabourg Film Festival
2007 – Grand Prix for the Best Film and the Best Music Award, 20th FIPA Festival Biarritz
2007 – FIPRESCI prize, International Film Festival “Cinema-Tout-Ecran”, Geneve
2007 – Best Male Performance, "13th Shanghai TV Festival”, Shanghai
2007 – Official participant of the World Film Festival Montreal
2007 – Award for best direction, "Viva Cinema of Russia!” Film Festival, St. Petersburg
2007 – P. Lebeshev award for the best pictorial realization, International Film Festival "Spirit of Fire", Khanty-Mansiysk

Short stories

2012 - XXIII Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr", G. Gorin's prize "For the best screenplay" and Russian Cinema Critic Guild diploma
2012 - BFI London Film Festival, official participant, London, UK
2012 - Montreal International Film Festival, Focus of World Cinema, Montreal, Canada
2012 - Cottbus Film Festival, Germany
2012 - X Moscow Film Festival of Russian cinema "Moscow Premiere" - Kinoprocess magazine award
2012 - Open Russian Film Festival "Amur Autumn", Blagoveshchensk - jury's special prize
2012 - International Film Festival "Vivat to Russian Cinema!", Saint-Petersburg, Grand-Prix
2012 - Nomination for National cinema critic and cinema press prize "White Elephant" for the best music
2012 - Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt
2012 - Pau Onternational Film Festival, Pau, France
2012-2013 - Russian Cinema Week participant at Paris, Honfleur, France; Bucharest, Romania; Tel-Aviv, Israel
2013 - Russian Cinema Festival in Marbella, Spain - The Best Film prize and People's Choice Award
2013 - Satire and Humor "The Gold Joker" award, the Cinema nomination winner
2013 - Jameson Dublin Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland, The Best Director award
2013 - SIFF, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, US, an official participant
2013 - Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden, am official participant
2013 - Nika cinema prize contest, nominated

A Film About Alexeev

2014 - XXV Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, an official participant
2014 - "The Golden Eagle" cinema prize contest, The Best Male Performance award
Elephants Can Play Football
2018 - Montreal International Film Festiva, Le Festival des films du mond, FFM, an official participant
2018 - Kinotavr - an official participant
2018 - Arctic Open Film Festival- The Best Director award