Aydin Kazimzadeh

Aydin Kazimzadeh was born in Baku.

He studied at the Journalism Department of the Philology Faculty of Azerbaijan State University (1958-1963), and at the advanced training courses for creative and managerial cinematographers in advertising at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (1985).

And since 1963 he has devoted his life to the study of cinematography. He worked as a photographer, proofreader, editor at the “Kino novyozy” newspaper, editor-in-chief of the “Kino” newspaper and the “Film” magazine, director of the Information and Advertising Bureau of the State Cinematography Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR, head of the dubbing department at Azerbaijani television, head of the Advertising Department at the “Azerkinovideo” PU, deputy editor-in-chief and executive director of the Azerbaijan Cinema Encyclopedia, deputy director and chief specialist of the State Film Fund, and leading specialist of the Cinema Museum under the State Film Fund.

Since 1997, he has been teaching cinema history at the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts and is an associate professor. More than 200 scientific and journalistic articles on cinema have been published in periodicals. He was the author and host of the programs “Kino tarikhimizdan”, “Kinoman”, “Kinosalname” on local television channels. He is the author of more than 20 books about cinema figures.

The fact that the history of Azerbaijani cinema began not in 1916, but precisely in 1898, and the declaration of August 2 as Cinema Day are associated with the name of Aydin Kazimzadeh.

Honored Cultural Worker (2000), Honored Art Worker (2005), Corresponding Member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2014), laureate of the “Humay”, “Golden Pen”, “Golden Lamp”, “Zirve”, “Hasan bey Zardabi” awards, holder of an Honorary Diploma named after film director Arif Babayev.