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Sadyk Sher-Niyaz was born on March 10, 1969, in the village of Chon-Kapka, Talas oblast, Kyrgyzstan. An ethnic Kyrgyz, Sher-Niyaz is married, the father of three children. At the age of 38 he left Kyrgyzstan to attend film school in Moscow. His first feature film Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains was the Kyrgyz submission to the 87th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film Category.
Sher-Niyaz is the founder of several organizations including, Aitysh Film Studio, Kalemger Literary Club, and Aitysh Public Fund. In 2011 he started International Film Festival "Kyrgyzstan - Land of Short Films." Later in 2011 Sher-Niyaz became the Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Kyrgyzstan, and was again re-elected to the position January 2015.- Born in Mana, Orhei, Romania on 2 Oct. 1935 as a second child of a pair of country teachers. In 1954, attended the Bucharest University to study Philology. Dramatic change in his life occurred in November 1956, when Russian Army crashed the Hungarian revolution. Together with other students all across Romania, he spoke against Russian intervention. Paul Goma was arrested and spent 2 years in the infamous Romanian Gulag in Jilava and Gherla. After being released, he spent 5 additional years at a domicile arrest. In 1966, first edition of his novel "Ostinato" is published illegally in Occident, that of course didn't improved his relation with the communist regime. Later, a new novel "Usa" (the Door), was published in West Germany (Suhrkamp Verlag) and France (Gallimard). That brings him to wide recognition as a writer and freedom fighter. In 1977 was arrested by the secret police (Securitate), and expelled to France (like Soljenitzin and Saharov, were expelled from Russia, at the time). Arrived to Paris, France on 20 November 1977, where he lives now.