life achievement award
Konstantin Bronzit was born 12 April 1965 in Saint Petersburg. After graduating from scriptwriting and direction at the Film Academy VGIK in Moscow and under leadership of Fjodor Chitruk he started his professional career in Pilot Studio, the first private studio in post-Soviet Moscow. He currently works for Melnitsa Studio in Saint Petersburg.
Konstantin Bronzit, a scriptwriter, artist, animator and director of animated films, belongs to the most famous Russian animators of post-Soviet period. He has made more than 10 short films, one full-length film and he has been nominated for Oscar twice and for the French Ceasar once. He brightly appeared on the world´s scene with his comedy At the End of the World in 1999 where he showed his great talent to create a gag situation as well as his feeling for action timing. Situated humor comes out by each scene of the film God (2003) as well as in Lovestory from the Toilets (2007). Critics and viewers successfully accepted his film We Cannot Live Without the Cosmos (2014), the topic of loneliness is further developed in his short film He Cannot Live Without the Cosmos (2019). Bronzit interprets it using easiness and humor aimed at his own people (nation). Konstantin Bronzit represents an incredible empathy. He is able to laught kindly at human weaknesses on one side and on the other one he is able to movingly deliberate on human desires and deepness of psycho.