Editing Kazakhstan (section)

=== Film ===
{{Main|Cinema of Kazakhstan}}
[[File:Red Carpet at AIAFF.jpg|thumb|[[International Astana Action Film Festival]], 2010]]

Kazakhstan's film industry is run through the state-owned [[Kazakhfilm]] studios based in Almaty. The studio has produced movies such as ''[[Myn Bala]]'', ''[[Harmony Lessons]]'', and ''Shal''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kazakhfilm Studios|url=https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0036615/|publisher=IMDbPro.com|accessdate=2022-10-10|archive-date=10 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010180922/https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0036615/|url-status=live}}</ref> Kazakhstan is the host of the [[International Astana Action Film Festival]] and the [[Eurasia International Film Festival]] held annually. Hollywood director [[Timur Bekmambetov]] is from Kazakhstan and has become active in bridging Hollywood to the Kazakhstan film industry.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT646 |title=Lonely Planet Central Asia |last1=Lioy |first1=Stephen |last2=Kaminski |first2=Anna |last3=Mayhew |first3=Bradley |last4=Walker |first4=Jenny |date=2018 |publisher=Lonely Planet |isbn=978-1-78701-960-7 |language=en |access-date=15 September 2023 |archive-date=3 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003022334/https://books.google.com/books?id=YnBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT646 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Kazakhstan journalist Artur Platonov won Best Script for his documentary "Sold Souls" about Kazakhstan's contribution to the struggle against terrorism at the 2013 Cannes Corporate Media and TV Awards.<ref>[http://ortcom.kz/en/news/artur-platonov-wins-cannes-corporate-media--tv-award-2013.2571 CCS · Artur Platonov wins Cannes Corporate Media & TV Award 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101051159/http://ortcom.kz/en/news/artur-platonov-wins-cannes-corporate-media--tv-award-2013.2571 |date=1 January 2016 }}. Ortcom.kz (5 November 2013). Retrieved 8 March 2014.</ref><ref>[http://www.cannescorporate.com/en/winners2013.php Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards: Winners 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907030048/http://www.cannescorporate.com/en/winners2013.php |date=7 September 2015 }}. Cannescorporate.com. Retrieved 8 March 2014.</ref>

Serik Aprymov's ''Little Brother'' (''Bauyr'') won at the Central and Eastern Europe Film Festival [[goEast]] from the German Federal Foreign Office.<ref name=EEC>{{cite web|title=Kazakhstan's Little Brother takes Federal Foreign Office award at goEast|date=20 April 2014|url=http://en.tengrinews.kz/cinema_and_music/Kazakhstans-Little-Brother-takes-Federal-Foreign-Office-award-at-goEast-253027/|publisher=TengriNews|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712032054/http://en.tengrinews.kz/cinema_and_music/Kazakhstans-Little-Brother-takes-Federal-Foreign-Office-award-at-goEast-253027/|archive-date=12 July 2014}}</ref>