Cherkessk - Moscow - Hollywood - and Moscow Again ...

Indar Dzhendubaev was born on September 8, 1983 in Cherkessk. While still in high school, he was fascinated by movies and drawing comics, but after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Moscow State University of Design and Technology, he became a student in the psychology department of the Moscow Humanities University. After successfully graduating from the university, he first enrolled in a psychology graduate school, but then went to work in film. At first he worked as an administrator, coordinator and producer of post-production, then as a storyboard artist, and in 2012, at the invitation of director and producer Timur Bekmambetov, he went to Hollywood, where he worked as a storyboard artist and second unit director on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. In 2015, Indar Jendubaev made his directorial debut with a feature-length feature film, He???s a Dragon. As a creative producer, art director and creative consultant for visual development of complex staging scenes, he has worked on many major Russian feature projects, including Silver Skates, Invasion, The Last Bogatyr (Part 2 and 3), Fire, Couple from the Future, etc. In this interview, Indar Dzhendubaev talks to film critic Alexander Fedorov about his childhood hobbies and the creative path he has taken over the past twenty years...