Evgeny Shelyakin

Evgeny Vladimirovich Shelyakin born 18 September 1976 Krasnodar is a Russian filmmaker screenwriter tv writerdirectorproducer and actor Born and raised in Krasnodar As a child he went to a theater studio independently came up with performances and at school I created my own show group Yevgeny received his first professional education as an electrical engineer In 1998 Shelyakin graduated from the Krasnodar law Institute of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia with the qualification lawyer and worked as an investigator in the police for 4 years At the same time Yevgeny Shelyakin became interested in KVN In 19951998 he was the captain of the KVN team The Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and played in the Krasnodar city League and for the citys national team Later he became the captain of the Kuban Cossacks team which reached the semifinals of the KVN Higher League in 1999 In 2008 he graduated from VGIK with a degree in feature film Directing in the workshop of Valery Akhadov where he currently conducts teaching activities On television Shelyakin worked as a screenwriter and director in entertainment programs and also wrote scripts for TV series including Afromoskvich and Happy Together As an employee of the script department of Channel One he worked on New years lights which later turned intoOlivier Show As a writer and director he participated in the creation of the popular projects Projectorperishilton Yesterday Live and the animated animated showparody Cartoon Personality On these projects Yevgeny Shelyakin worked not only in the studio but also directed onsite shooting of clips sketches and parodies of trailers In 2008 he made a short film Freuds Dolls and the film BW became his directorial debut in full meter Yevgeny Shelyakins work was highly appreciated by the famous Russian film reviewer Yevgeny Bazhenov who called him one of his favorite directors and starred in his film Friday as a cameo