Anton Bilzho
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Anton Andreevich Bilzho (Russian: Антон Андреевич Бильжо; 17 June 1978; Moscow) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. He was born in the family of the famous Russian cartoonist and humorist Andrey Georgievich Bilzho, a psychiatrist by profession. He studied at the Lomonosov Moscow State University at the Faculty of Journalism. He graduated from the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors. He worked on television in the program "Dachniki", was a journalist in the "Russian Telegraph", "Kommersant" and "Gazeta". He worked as a copywriter for the McCann Erickson advertising agency. Lecturer at the Design School of the Higher School of Economics. In 2012, he began shooting commercials, short films, and writing screenplays. In 2016, he shot his debut feature film "Dreamfish", which was shown at the Kinotavr Film Festival as part of the "Main Competition Program". The next feature-length work of the director was the film "Ambivalence", which was shown at the XI International Film Festival "North Wind". In 2018, he received a diploma at the 26th Window to Europe Film Festival. He is the author of a novel called "Capsule for a Copywriter", which was released in 2015 by RIPOLL-Classic publishing house, and the winner of the Faultet award in the Short Prose section.