Darkhan Tulegenov was born in 1993 in the Uralsk of western Kazakhstan. At the age of 15 he entered the drama faculty of Z. Yelebekov college in Almaty. In 2012 he was admitted to the T. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts. Tulegenov has been a participant of many national and international film festivals.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
