The story
The film studio was founded in 1934 as the Alma-Ata newsreel studio, in 1936 the first documentaries were released. On November 15, 1941, the Alma-Ata film studio merged with the Mosfilm and Lenfilm film studios evacuated to Kazakhstan to the Central United Film Studio - TsOKS, which worked in Alma-Ata until 1944 and produced 80% of all domestic feature films during the war. On January 9, 1960, from the Alma-Ata film studio of feature and newsreel films, it was renamed into the Kazakhfilm film studio. In 1984 the film studio was named after the outstanding figure of national cinematography Shaken Kenzhetayevich Aimanov.
In 2005, Kazakhfilm launched its first big production, Nomad, which involved investments in technology and talent amounting to $37 million. This boosted the domestic film industry. Nomad was followed by Mongol, (2007) another big-budget epic.
In 2020, the film studio appeared on the seventh episode of The Amazing Race 32 as the site of a Detour task.
The newest project of Kazakhfilm is the film named Томирис (Tomiris) based on the life of the Scythian Queen Tomyris directed by Akan Satayev in 2019. This movie received international attention.
In April 2021 JSC Kazakhfilm named after I. Sh. Aimanova, together with Almaty Management University AlmaU, established the Media & Film School, a new format for media and cinema. The goal of the new school is to train professionals who meet the modern requirements of the media and film market and the development of the creative industry in the country. The training of the first students began in the 2021-2022 academic year.
From Wikipedia’s article on Kazakhfilm, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4