• Vaqif Hasanov (Ibrahimoglu)
  Chairman of Art Advisory Committee
  
  
• Mammadov Nariman
  Producer
  
  
• Ilqar Safat
  Film Director
  
  
• Shamil Aliev
  Film Director
  
  
• Mirbala Salimli
  Film Director
  
  
• Teymur Daimi
  Film Director
  
  

Born Ilgar Safat in 1972, Ilgar Safat is a film director, poet and rock-singer.

Safat graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical University in 1995. Between 1995 and 2000, his works were published in several newspapers and literary magazines in Baku. Safat has also appeared on various stages in Baku and Moscow to perform his own songs (he has written about a hundred songs). In 2002, he graduated from the Higher Courses of Script-writers and Film Directors in Moscow, where he studied in the studio of Khotinenko, following which he directed “The Grandson of the Mountains” - which for several years has represented Azerbaijan in many European cities. After his studies in Moscow, Safat worked as a film director at the Far Eastern Newsreel Studio in Khabarovsk for a year and a half.

In 2003, the Governor of Khabarovsk province awarded Safat a prize for the film “The Roots of the Sky”. This film was shown all over the world, and took part in a number of Russian and international film festivals (including New York, Leipzig, Barcelona, Prague, Augsburg, &c). In Germany, “The Roots of the Sky” was entered in the catalogue of the best ethnographic films, and the film has also been added to the library of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

1. “Thousand” (2001, Moscow)
2. “The Grandson of the Mountains” (2002, Baku)
3. “I Remember the Birds...” (2002, Moscow)
4. “The Roots of the Sky” (2003, Khabarovsk)
5. “The Spirit of the Stone” (2003, Khabarovsk)
6. “Free. Kiss you. Boris” (2004, Moscow)
7. "Sonet 129" (2005, Moscow)
8. "The Holy Virgin of Sofra" (2005, Moscow)
9. “On Green Pastures” (2006, Baku)
10. "Peri Gala" (2007, Baku)
11. "Return to Gobustan" (2007, Baku)

1. Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York, USA)
2. Montreal First Peoples Festival (Montreal, Canada)
3. imagineNATIVE (Toronto, Canada)
4. One World – International Film Festival (Prague, Czech Republic)
5. International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films (Leipzig, Germany)
6. Сinema оf Tomorrow (Augsburg, Germany)
7. Asia - Berlin International Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)
8. Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival (Parnu, Estonia)
9. Moscow International Visual Anthropology Film Festival (Moscow, Russia)
10. MESSAGE TO MAN International Film Festival (St Petersburg, Russia)
11. Solo para Cortos Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
12. ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival (Tirgu–Mures, Romania)
13. MEDIAWAVE International Visual Art Foundation (Gyor, Нungary)
14. AL JAZEERA International Documentary Film Festival (Doha, Qatar)

1. The Governor of Khabarovsk province prize laureate (for “The Roots of the Sky”)
2. “Intellect” prize laureate (for “The Grandson of the Mountains”)
3. “I live here!” International Film Festival prize laureate (for “On Green Pastures”)
4. Diploma of the Y.N. Ozerova Military Film Festival (for “Sofrinskaya Bogoroditsa”)