Vladimir Bashta was born in Moscow in 1970. In 1996 he graduated from the prestigious Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK). His first film as a cinematographer was Life, Autumn (1999), which won the Award for Best Cinematography at the Bratislava International Film Festival in 1999. Since then he has worked on over a dozen successful features, TV series, TV commercials and documentaries. He has been a member of the Cinematographers Society and Guild of Cameramen since 2000, and a member of IMAGO, the European Federation of Cinematographers, since 2001. In 2011, Vladimir Bashta won the coveted White Square award for cinematography for the 2009 film Kandahar, and was separately nominated for the same award for Brest Fortress.
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.
