Director

Evgeny Afineevsky

Directing

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 1All crew credits: 13

TMDB ID: 1359976

IMDb ID: nm1017958

Known for: Directing

Born: October 21, 1972

Age: 53

Place of birth: Kazan, Tatarskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR (now Tatarstan, Russia)

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1987 - 2025

Years active: 39

Average TMDB rating: 6.45

Wikidata: Q4072750

Also known as

Evgeny Mikhailovich Afineevsky • Евгений Михайлович Афинеевский • Евгений Афинеевский • 이브게니 아피네예브스키 • Євген Афінеєвський

Frequent jobs

Director (4)Director of Photography (3)Producer (5)Writer (1)

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Biography

Evgeny Mikhailovich Afineevsky (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Афинеевский; born October 21, 1972) is an Israeli-American film director, producer and cinematographer who lives in the United States. In 2016 Afineevsky was nominated for an Academy Award and Emmys for his documentary "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" (2016). Afineevsky was born in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on October 21, 1972 to a Russian-Jewish family. In the early 1990s, Afineevsky became an Israeli citizen and served in the Israeli Defence Forces. As he became involved in the film industry, he relocated to Los Angeles in the United States through connections to Menahem Golan, living there since 1999. Afineevsky is openly homosexual.

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