Mikhail Tumelya
Director, animator, artist, scriptwriter. He was born 18 February 1963 in Minsk. After the graduation from the architecture's department of the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute in 1985 he worked at the animation Film Studio “Belarusfilm”. From 1987 to 1989 he studied at the High director's courses at the animation director's department (Norshtein and Nazarov’s School). From 1989 to 1999 he worked at the Minsk Studio “AF-Center” as an animation film director. At present he is a free lance. He is a director and animator. He works in Minsk and Moscow. He is a participant and a prize winner of a great number of the animation film festivals. Filmography 1998 – «Magic pipe» 2000 – «Ball» 2006 – «Staunched Chen» 2008 – «Belarusian proverbs» 2009 – «A Story of the Passing Years-4 (Arms of Bragin)» 2010 – «Paper patterns» 2011 – «Belarusian proverbs-2»
Festivals International Children's Animation Festival «Golden fish»
04.09.2009 – Russia – Anapa A special award of the jury to Mikhail Tumelya «For input into the world animation»
