Evgeny Shelyakin

Evgeny Vladimirovich Shelyakin (born 18 September, 1976; Krasnodar) is a Russian filmmaker, screenwriter, tv writer/director/producer and actor. Born and raised in Krasnodar. As a child, he went to a theater studio, independently came up with performances, and at school I created my own show group. Yevgeny received his first professional education as an electrical engineer. In 1998, Shelyakin graduated from the Krasnodar law Institute of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia with the qualification "lawyer" and worked as an investigator in the police for 4 years. At the same time, Yevgeny Shelyakin became interested in KVN. In 1995-1998, he was the captain of the KVN team "The Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" and played in the Krasnodar city League and for the city's national team. Later, he became the captain of the Kuban Cossacks team, which reached the semifinals of the KVN Higher League in 1999. In 2008, he graduated from VGIK with a degree in feature film Directing in the workshop of Valery Akhadov, where he currently conducts teaching activities. On television, Shelyakin worked as a screenwriter and director in entertainment programs, and also wrote scripts for TV series, including Afromoskvich and Happy Together. As an employee of the script department of Channel One, he worked on "New year's lights", which later turned into"Olivier Show". As a writer and director, he participated in the creation of the popular projects "Projectorperishilton", "Yesterday Live", and the animated animated show-parody "Cartoon Personality". On these projects, Yevgeny Shelyakin worked not only in the studio, but also directed on-site shooting of clips, sketches, and parodies of trailers. In 2008, he made a short film "Freud's Dolls", and the film "B/W" became his directorial debut in full meter. Yevgeny Shelyakin's work was highly appreciated by the famous Russian film reviewer Yevgeny Bazhenov, who called him one of his favorite directors and starred in his film "Friday" as a cameo.

Works

Success

What price are you willing to pay for success? Since childhood, dreaming of becoming a rock star Lisa comes an offer from America, and she leaves the family - husband Artem and little daughter Vita. They once dreamed to go to America to make music with Artyom, but after the birth of their daughter they had to forget about creativity. Now Artem raises her daughter alone, interrupted by odd jobs. Once he is forced to speak with covers of Russian pop music at corporate parties. He takes Vita with him, and she unexpectedly rescues his father — he sings a song for him, the words of which he does not know. Their extravagant performance hits the Internet, collects millions of views, and attracts the attention of a famous producer. He promises to make them true stars. But Vita does not want to be a star at all - she wants her mother to come back ...

Release Date2019-11-07

Charactersd clip director

Vote Count2

The Battle

The dreams of passionate street dancer Anton are crushed when an accidental injury makes him deaf. But it is exactly at this difficult time that he meets his true love and finds his vocation. Anton learns to listen to the music that comes from the inside and to create his own music through a dance that will never be the same. He starts to teach dancing to kids with hearing impairments and prepares a unique act with them. He takes great risks joining his former team with deaf kids for a new dance to take part in the World Championship.

Release Date2019-08-29

Charactersd clip director

Vote Count8

Elephant

In the center of the plot children's writer Valentin Shubin, accustomed to live in seclusion. His books about the elephant Mishka, written in his youth, enjoyed great success both at home and abroad. A series of random events causes a new surge of interest in the personality and creativity of the writer-introvert. Adults and young readers waiting for new books, but Shubin them does not want to write.

Release Date2019-09-19

Charactersd Rezhissyor televisionnoy programmy

Vote Count5

Naughty Grandma 2

A man impersonates a nanny to infiltrate a millionaire's household and steal his fortune.

Release Date2019-01-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count30

About Love. Adults Only

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.

Release Date2017-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count47

Belyakovs Are on Vacation

This is a story about an ordinary Belyakov family from the city of Taganrog, who comes to Turkey on vacation and finds themselves in a difficult situation: due to a mistake by the head of the family, Sergey Belyakov, the hotel rooms turned out to be paid for next year, but there is no money for the return trip. In addition, at the hotel the Belyakovs meet the wealthy Dubravin family, whom they have been mortally jealous of since their school years and try to compete with them in everything. The Belyakovs cannot admit their failure to their "sworn friends" and go all in: they begin to pose as representatives of the elite, burying themselves deeper in their lies...

Release Date2024-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Good As New

Found unconscious and robbed on a beach in Thailand, 70-year old Xenophon only knows his own name because it was engraved on his old Soviet watch. He’s been left with no money and no identification…and he doesn’t speak a word of Thai. But Xenophon is a resourceful man. He begins to build a new life with friends and a new business, but there’s something disturbing in his past that he can only glimpse through his shattered memory. Is he really who he seems?

Release Date2020-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Naughty Grandma 3

1980, the whole country follows the events of the Moscow Olympics. Vova Rubinstein alone, on the sly, disguises himself as Soviet pop stars and tries to get rich by arranging fake concerts. At one of these concerts, he is exposed by the KGB and recruited as an undercover agent. Now, in order not to go to jail, Vova must fulfill a responsible mission - to find a deadly chemical developed in a secret laboratory on the black market. Vova will have to plunge headlong into the abyss of the spy passions of Moscow in the 80s: to find a chemical, to prevent the undermining of the Olympic Bear, to experience Brezhnev's passionate kiss, and to meet the love of his life ... And all this is in the image of the currency prostitute Louise Karpovna Rubinstein.

Release Date2021-05-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count10

Old School

Release Date2025-09-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count5

The Kitchen. War for the Hotel

Having suffered a fiasco in the hotel business and saying goodbye to the Eleon Hotel, Eleanor retreats to Tuscany. Everything changes when the ex-fiance Dmitry Nagiyev, who is guilty of her bankruptcy, begins construction of the grandiose Resort complex in Sochi. To take revenge on the showman for all the insults, Eleanor buys a hotel that Nagiyev has his eye on, hires her ex-husband, chef Viktor Barinov, their daughter Katya and manager Mikhail Dzhekovich.

Release Date2019-11-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count21

Vote Count21

Naughty Grandma

A swindler on the lam uses his impersonating skills to pose as a grandmother in a nursing home, where his disguise complicates his love life.

Release Date2017-08-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count43

Red 5

Special services agent Bekeshev, who alone can neutralize any enemy, once fails the task, and he is dismissed.

Release Date2024-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count10

Tetya Marta

Martha, at the age of eight, leads a life full of childish worries. The only relative nearby is the grandfather, who needs supervision more than the granddaughter. In order not to end up in an orphanage, Martha hides the truth from a teacher, a district police officer and a glamorous neighbor and asks a loser actor to pretend to be her father. Kazan relatives come to the rescue in the person of adventurer Marat. Only in the plans of the arrogant boy, not caring about the girl, but her Moscow apartments.

Release Date2022-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count17

Vote Count10

Freud's Dolls

We only think we are in control of our lives. But we are just puppets in the theater of our subconscious. The problems of psychologist Eduard and his patient Vitaly are unexpectedly interconnected. What to do about Eduardo? Help the patient to their own detriment or, forgetting everything, save their personal life?

Release Date2009-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Friday

Friday night is almost like a shortened New year's night. One can expect every kind of surprises on that night. Friday night has its special magic.

Release Date2016-03-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count30

New Year's Alarm

This New Year's evening all the Morozovs family members are really alarmed - father's inheritance is in jeopardy...

Release Date2017-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

The Eternal Life of Alexander Christoforov

The misanthrope Alexander Christoforov, nicknamed "Alec", is a hopeless loser. The actor, who was celebrated in the Soviet era as the hero of "Eugene Onegin", is carving out a depressing existence as a bad paid figure of a ridicule historical show. Despised by his ex-wife, alienated from his son, Alec has totally screwed up his life. But when diagnosed with a mortal illness, he sets off on a ludicrous tour de force at the end of which a piece of eternity surprisingly awaits him - A comedy with a happy end.

Release Date2018-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Finding Mom

The main character is a 12-year-old boy who goes in search of his mother and on this journey he meets a 27-year-old guy who helps him grow up. Remake of the Kyrgyz film

Release Date2022-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

B/W

Nurick and Yaroslav are trying to robe a criminal boss. Unfortunately Nurick dies but returns to the world with a mission: to be the guardian angel of Yaroslav.

Release Date2015-03-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count27

Stars in Siberia

A large company from Siberia invites top stars of Russian show business to a New Year's corporate party. The artists agree and board the plane, but life makes its own adjustments - from the airport, a bus takes them to a small village in the snow, where they are met by the head of the local village council. The stars are in for some tough tests: Svetlakov and Brekotkin will test their friendship for strength, Klava Koka will be left without social networks, Olga Buzova will end up in a large family of Evenk hunters, and Timur Batrutdinov will drink a love potion in the house of a Siberian healer.

Release Date2024-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1