David Bezmozgis

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Full Name	David Bezmozgis
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jun 2, 1973(1973-06-02)
Age	51
Birthplace	Riga
Country	Latvia
Horoscope	Gemini

David Bezmozgis Biography

David Bezmozgis is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on June 2, 1973 in Riga, Latvia. David Bezmozgis (Latvian: Davids Bezmozgis born in 1973) is a Latvian Canadian writer and filmmaker and is currently the head the Humber College’s School for Writers.

In 2008, he finished his first feature-length narrative, Victoria Day (2009) that he wrote and directed. The film features Mark Rendall as a high-school hockey player who is confronted by the onset of adulthood pressures as well as those of Russian parents. The film also premiered during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated to win the Grand Jury Prize in the “World Cinema – Dramatic” category. The film was also nominated for the Best Screenplay award at the 2010 Genie Awards. The film has also been screened during festivals such as the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Moscow International Film Festival, the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Athens International Film Festival, the Seoul International Youth Film Festival and The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival as well as The Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

His short story “Natasha”, which originally appeared in Harper’s, was included in the Best American Short Stories 2005 collection. His short story “The Train of Their Departure”, which The New Yorker featured in its August 2010 issue, is actually an excerpt from his first novel The Free World, released on April 4, 2011, to wide acclaim. His short stories “Tapka” and “The Russian Riviera” were also published in The New Yorker. His short stories “The Second Strongest Man” and “A New Gravestone for an Old Grave” have been published in Zoetrope All-Story. “A New Gravestone for an Old Grave” was also included in the Best American Short Stories 2006 collection.

Bezmozgis’ second novel, The Betrayers (2014) is about a famous Russian Jewish dissident who, after the fall of the Soviet Union, meets the man who denounced him. He also worked on the novel during a New York Public Library Cullman Center fellowship that he received. The novel was published in 2014 by Little, Brown and Company.

The first book he published was Natasha and Other Stories (2004 ISBN 0-374-28141-6). The stories in the collection first were published on The New Yorker, Harper’s and Zoetrope All-Story. Natasha and Other Stories was selected for inclusion as part of Canada Reads 2007, where it was promoted by Steven Page.

David Bezmozgis Net Worth

David Bezmozgis is one of the richest Film Director from Latvia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Bezmozgis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1999, when he was still an undergraduate film student of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Bezmozgis directed and wrote his first film, a 25-minute documentary titled L.A. Mohel, which was awarded a major prize for students who were filmmakers. The year 2001 was the year Bezmozgis composed and wrote a short narrative film titled The Diamond Nose (2001) with Paul Lieber. The year 2003 was the time Bezmozgis produced a document called Genuine Article the First Trial (2003) which was about the hiring system used to recruit law students as interns for Canadian legal firms.

The shorter story “Minyan” was published in the Winter 2002 issue of Prairie Fire and won the Silver Medal in the 2003 National Magazine Award for Fiction. The novella “An Animal to the Memory” was published in the journal Vol. 5, No. 2, (2002) with paperplates. The brief piece “Rome, 1978” was published in the April edition of The Walrus.

Bezmozgis’ first novel The Free World (2011) was published in 2011. Set in Italy in 1978, Bezmozgis’ novel chronicles the experience of Jewish refugees from the USSR. Critics in North America and in Europe have suggested that in this novel Berzmozgis presented through a fictional lens what another Jewish- Soviet immigrant Maxim D. Shrayer had described in his book “Waiting for America” (2007). It was subsequently nominated and shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and for the Governor General’s Awards.

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