Akan Kargambaevich Satayev (Kazakh: Ақан Қарғамбайұлы Сатаев; born December 23, 1971; Karaganda) is a Kazakh film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Honored Worker of Kazakhstan and laureate of State Award of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Akan was born to a family of actors, both his parents were recognized as People's Artistes of the Kazakh SSR and performed leading roles at Karaganda Drama Theater where he spent a lot of time. That theater became his first drama school, and in 1994 Akan graduated from Kazakh National Academy of Arts, Dept of Cinema and Television. While at the university, he played student Azat, the main character in Allazhar, a movie by Kaldybay Abenov about tragic events in Alma-Ata in December 1986. After graduation, Akan took part in various feature films and went into directing and producing advertising clips. Sataifilm, the company he founded in 2003, presented Racketeer, a crime drama and his debut movie, in 2007. In 2016 Akan founded Astana Film Fund to support young Kazakhstani directors and low-budget indie productions. In the same year he shot 2 feature-length movies - “Districts”, a teenage crime drama set in the USSR and The Road to Mother, a period drama about Collectivization in the Soviet Union, Eastern Front (World War II) and post-war years in Kazakhstan. Mr. Satayev led Kazakhfilm, the largest movie studio in Kazakhstan between 2020 and 2022.
Strayed
(Director)
Racketeer 2
(Producer)
The Liquidator
(Producer)
Strayed
(Producer)
Racketeer
(Producer)
Racketeer
(Director)
The Liquidator
(Director)
Boxer
(Director)
Boxer
(Screenplay)
The Leader's Way. Astana
(Director)
The Leader's Way. Astana
(Producer)
Boxer
(Producer)
Holidays Offline 2
(Producer)
Districts
(Producer)
The Road to Mother
(Producer)
The Legend of Tomiris
(Producer)
Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe
(Producer)
Alone
(Producer)
Dawn of the Great Steppe
(Producer)
Dissolve
(Producer)
Hacker
(Producer)
Dawn of the Great Steppe
(Writer)
Dawn of the Great Steppe
(Director)
Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe
(Director)
Holidays Offline
(Executive Producer)
The Assault
(Producer)
Hacker
(Story)
Hacker
(Director)
The Road to Mother
(Director)
Racketeer 2
(Director)
Teach Me How to Live
(Screenplay)
Teach Me How to Live
(Director)
Districts
(Director)
Alone
(Director)
The Gentle Indifference of the World
(Executive Producer)
Businessmen
(Producer)
Businessmen
(Director)
A Dark, Dark Man
(Executive Producer)
The Legend of Tomiris
(Director)
Against All Odds
(Producer)
Debt
(Producer)
Live Broadcast
(Producer)
Bolashak
(Producer)
Kara Shanyrak
(Producer)
Bauyrzhan Momyshuly
(Producer)
Brothers
(Director)
My Darling
(Producer)
Girlfriends
(Producer)
Bauyrzhan Momyshuly
(Director)
Brothers
(Producer)
Brothers
(Creator)
Brothers
(Creator)
Bauyrzhan Momyshuly
(Creator)