Name
Evgeny Afineevsky
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1972-10-21 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Kazan, Tatarskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR (now Tatarstan, Russia)
Biography
Evgeny Mikhailovich Afineevsky (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Афинеевский; born October 21, 1972) is an Israeli-American film director, producer and cinematographer who lives in the United States. In 2016 Afineevsky was nominated for an Academy Award and Emmys for his documentary "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" (2016).
Afineevsky was born in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on October 21, 1972 to a Russian-Jewish family. In the early 1990s, Afineevsky became an Israeli citizen and served in the Israeli Defence Forces. As he became involved in the film industry, he relocated to Los Angeles in the United States through connections to Menahem Golan, living there since 1999. Afineevsky is openly homosexual.
Known For
7.9
Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent ...
5.031
Nelson and Angelo, a gay couple, decide to come out to their parents. However, when they d...
5.2
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apar...
7.2
An attempt to re-contextualize the European migrant crisis and ongoing hostilities in Syri...
- 2023 Subject as Self
- 2001 Death Game as Policeman
