Gulbara Tolomushova

{{Short description|Kyrgyz film critic}}

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Гульбара Толомушова

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| occupation = Kyrgyz TV director, Film historian, and film critic.

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Gulbara Tolomushova (Russian: Гульбара Толомушова) is a Kyrgyzstani film critic, film historian, TV director and TV Presenter.

She was born in Frunze (now Bishkek),{{cite web|url=https://centralasien.org/en/40-women-of-kyrgyzstan-portraits/gulbara-tolomushova/|title=Gulbara Tolomushova|date=18 January 2017|publisher=centralasien.org|accessdate=30 November 2017}} as the daughter of a film editor mother who traveled frequently to Moscow for work.{{cite web|url=http://eva.kg/holidays/blife/1096-gulbara-tolomushova-kriticheskiy-vzglyad.html|title=Гульбара Толомушова. Критический взгляд » Ева.кг – Бишкекский женский журнал|website=eva.kg|accessdate=30 November 2017}} She went on to study cinematography in Moscow, graduating from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1989. Since then, she has directed numerous TV films and written about the medium for both internet and print publications. She has also served as a jury member on a number of film festivals. As a TV director, she specializes in documentaries on the subject of Kyrhyz cinema, art and culture. Employed by the Department of Cinematography of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, she is a member of the International Federation of Film Critics and the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema. From 2004 until 2010, she was the deputy chair of the Kyrgyz Union of Filmmakers. She has also worked as a researcher at the Aitmatov Institute for Literature and Languages at the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences.{{cite book|author1=Michael Rouland|author2=Gulnara Abikeyeva|author3=Birgit Beumers|title=Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5eD4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PR16|date=30 September 2013|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-84511-901-0|pages=16–}} She has received a number of awards from the government of Kyrgyzstan for her work.{{cite web|url=http://www.kyrgyzcinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=305:gulbara-tolomushova&catid=42:film-experts&Itemid=122&lang=en|title=Gulbara Tolomushova-Kyrgyz Cinema|last=managerCAFA|website=www.kyrgyzcinema.com|accessdate=30 November 2017}} Tolomushova has called Battleship Potemkin the first truly great film that she saw in her life.

{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/559|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818135702/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/559|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 18, 2016|title=Gulbara Tolomushova – BFI|website=www.bfi.org.uk|accessdate=30 November 2017}}

Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, France, 04.07.2024.