User:Anellyaaa/Сеитов, Айсултан Арсенович

Aisultan Arsenuly Seitov (kaz. Aisultan Arsenuly Seitov, Aisultan Arsenuly Seitov; January 31, 1997, Alma-Ata) - Kazakh director, music video maker. Currently, he makes music videos for artists from the CIS countries, collaborating with the production company Hype Production. Since 2017, he has done, perhaps, the impossible, shooting videos for leading Russian rap artists and not only. And in 2019, he shot two works with American stars at once.

Biography
A graduate of the Kazakh-Turkish Lyceum in Astana[2]. He graduated from the New York Film Academy.) in the direction of "directing". During his studies, he directed the short film "The Jackal", with which he won the Best Director award at the Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival in New York in 2016. [3][4]

Seitov's first music video was the video for Jai Miyazaki's song "In the Wind". [5] His first real orders are the video "Zhanym Sol" for the band Moldanazar and the video for the band Ninety One, which was not published.

The video for the song "Medina" by Jah Khalib became the most expensive video in the history of Kazakhstan[6].

Aisultan made a documentary short film "Charisma" about the duo "MiyaGi & Endgame". In March 2019, he became a guest of the program "VDUD".

Directing

The first video Seitov shoots with the Kyrgyz group "Jaya Miyazaki" for the song "In the wind". For the work, Aysultan receives a fee of $1 thousand. After that, he works with Kazakhstani artists, including Galymzhan Moldanazar and the group Ninety One.

After working with Scriptonite and Tati, who the director shot a video for fun, they began to talk about him as a promising talented music video maker and director. Later, Seitov re-shoots the music video for Scriptonite and T-fest for the song "Lambada".

On a regular basis, the director works with Ivan Dorn, with whom they have shot such videos as Collaba, OTD and Africa. For the filming of the latter, the film crew of Aisultan went to Uganda.

"The trip to Uganda changed my mind in many ways, made me look at a lot of things differently," says Seitov.

The director also interacted with such Russian stars as Basta, Elena Temnikova and LJ.

A new surge of interest in the works of the Kazakh music video maker appeared after the video "I Got Love" by the duo MiyaGi and Endgame. To the same collective, Aisultan made a short film "Charisma", which tells about the creative path of the musicians.

The director fruitfully cooperates with such a Kazakh performer as Jah Khalib. The video for the song "Leila" tells the story of the artist's love. By the way, the shooting of the video took place much later than the release of the song. By this time, she had already firmly established herself in the top lines of all sorts of charts.

Seitov shoots with the same artist the most expensive video in the history of Kazakhstan for the song "Medina". The shooting took place in the city-scenery built for the film "Nomads". The video was shot in a historical style. The stuntmen masterfully reproduced the battle scenes, against the background of which the love of a nomad warrior for a fragile and tender girl looks piercing.

The biography of the director was not without scandals. The reason was the clip of Russian rapper Noize MC and singer Monetochka for the song "Childfree". The lawyers considered that the song contains a call to suicide. The Investigative Committee of Russia began checking, which the performer called a complete farce.

The video was shot in Almaty. According to the plan of the director Seitov, the plot tells about the degradation of society, in which the communication of children with their parents was replaced by gadgets and the Internet with all its contents.

A new breakthrough in the work of the Kazakh director occurred after cooperation with American performers. In the fall of 2018, the director announced the beginning of work on the video of the rapper Offset from the group Migos. Photos from the shooting and the clip "Red room" Aisultan puts on his personal page of the social network "Instagram".

Later, there is a message about the joint work of the Kazakh and hip-hop artist 21 Savage on the main song of the last album I am-I was called A lot. The song was recorded together with the artist J. Cole.

After the release of the video on the YouTube channel, positive reviews of critics about Seitov's directorial work appear in specialized music publications. According to Aysultan, he receives orders.

Personal life

he director is dating model Aya Shalkar. He told a little about his personal life during an interview with journalist Yuri Dudu. Seitov shared details that he knew the girl for a long time, but they began to communicate closely during the filming of the video "Medina". A young man for the sake of his beloved went on a date with a high temperature, suffering from pneumonia.

Fans of Seitov's work already dream of seeing a model as the wife of a talented director. It is known that Aya lives in Austria and is engaged in fashion design.

Aisultan Seitov now

The Kazakh is the founder of the film production company QARA. Directors, cameramen and producers are engaged in the organization of filming clips of performers. Aisultan Seitov actively promotes his own company in Kazakhstan, Russia and abroad.