Solomon E. SHULMAN

Solomon Efimovich Shulman (also known as Sol Shulman and Semion Shulman) — author, scriptwriter, film director, adventurer ^[1]

Biography

Born on the 20th of January 1936 in Bobruisk (Belarus), to a doctor and a teacher. His first profession was engineering. In 1966 he completed his second higher education degree at the Academy of Cinema in Moscow (VGIK), training as a film director. From 1963 to 1973 he worked as one of the creators of a popular documentary series call «Film-Adventurer's Almanac» (USSR) (artistic director Vladimir A. Shnejderov^[2]).

He is the author of more than forty documentary films, five feature film scripts, plus a host of literary and publicistic works, published in many countries worldwide. He has lead film expeditions into the most distant corners of the planet — from the North Pole, to the summits of Pamir, the jungles of Africa, the islands of Oceania, and the deserts of Australia.

He has worked at film-studios in the USSR, Yugoslavia, Germany, USA, Italy and Australia, and has been awarded the Order of Soviet Journalists of the USSR. He is a presidium member of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio, a member of the Russian Cinematographers Union and Russian Film Directors Guild, a member of the Russian Writers' Union ^[3], a member of the Australian Writers' Guild, and a Professor at the Italian State University ^[4].

His public appearances always attract a large student crowd in the auditoriums of Italy, England, Germany, Australia and the USA. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Prizes and Awards

1964 – First Prize of the USSR Union of Journalists at the All-National Film-Festival for the documentary film «In Broad Daylight» («Izvestia», Moscow, 10-08-1964).

1971 - Prize at the Int. Film-Festival in Czechoslovakia for the documentary films «On the Slopes of Elbruce» and «In Ancient Khiva».

1976 - First Prize at an Int. cinematography competition in Yugoslavia for the script «The Disaster» («Novosti», Belgrade, 20-01-1976).

1998 - "Book of the month" - as decided by a panel of professional critics for the book "Power and Destiny" ("Izvestia", Moscow, 29-05-98).

2006 - "SIGN OF APPRECIATION" III degree, (Int. Conference of Journalists, 2006).