Haji Safarov is a film critic, producer, and Talents Sarajevo'22 Alumni who graduated from Istanbul University in 2018. He began creating video-essays on Azerbaijani and world cinema shortly after graduation. In 2019, he participated in a workshop titled "Social Discourse through Film Journalism" organized by the Batumi International Art-house Film Festival and Cottbus Film Festival. The following year, Haji was a founding member of the Independent Cinema Platform and served on the jury for the "Support for Full-Length Film Projects - 2022" competition and the 38th Warsaw Film Festival. He is a co-founder of the Kinoyazar and the creator of its concept where attempting to cover all aspects of cinema. Nowadays he is working on his first full-length movie as a producer.
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