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- Animation Department
- Additional Crew
- Director
Alex earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was awarded the Merit Scholarship. With the guidance of Chris Sullivan and Nancy Andrews, Alex pursued Stop-Motion Animation: A technique where inanimate objects are given the appearance of natural motion through a series of small position changes. He received a James Nelson Raymond Graduate Fellowship for his thesis film.
Influenced by the work of Alfred Hitchcock and the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alex's first stop-motion film Wolves at the Table won Best Animation at the Knoxville Valleyfest Film Festival and Best Experimental Film at the L.A. Indie Talent Awards. Over the years he has directed animation for numerous projects including Walt Disney's Annie award nominated JoJo's Circus (2003) and Teletoon's Gemini award winning series Life's a Zoo (2008).
With the production support of Canada's Cuppa Coffee Studios, Alex directed and animated The Devil's Due (2011), a surreal short noteworthy for its use of a continuously moving camera. The film features a choreographed overlap of more than seventy characters. It is rife with in-camera special effects. The world premier screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. It garnered a Gold Remi Award at Houston's International Film Festival for best independent animated short film.
Alex is married to CG Supervisor/Actress Mahsa Ghorbankarimi. In 2015 the couple produced their first feature Luciferous (2015). The art-house thriller won a number of Best Horror Feature awards. Alex and Mahsa's daughter Mina Gorelick joined the film industry in 2013 voicing two Sesame Street short films. Her adept performance in Luciferous, earned Mina a Special Jury Award at the Torremolinos International Film Festival, in Spain.
Alex was born in the former Soviet Union. His family immigrated to Canada in 1979 by way of Italy when he was six. Originally from Belarus, his father Lev Gorelick was a chef, his mother Klara a dentist. His sister Irena is a teacher.
As a young athlete Alex ran competitive cross-country and was goaltender for the Windsor Nationals. At sixteen he competed in Chicago at the North American Maccabi Youth Olympic Games for one of Canada's basketball-team delegations. He was valedictorian at Vincent Massey high school and upon graduation received a number of Academic-Athletic bursaries.
In 1996 Alex earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Windsor, where he received a Board of Governors Medal for highest academic standing from the School of Visual Arts.- Actor
- Writer
- Manager
Gary Vaynerchuk was born on 14 November 1975 in Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Babruysk, Belarus]. He is an actor and writer, known for The Adventures of Lil' Vee (2019), Dirt! The Movie (2009) and Fate of a Sport (2022).- Irina Medvedeva was born on 14 August 1982 in Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Babruysk, Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Chelovek niotkuda (2023), Tarif Novogodniy (2008) and The Jungle (2012). She has been married to Guillaume Boucher since 5 July 2018. They have two children. She was previously married to Ruslan Alekhno.
- Joshua L. Goldberg was born on 6 January 1896 in Bobruisk, Belarus. He was married to Henrietta. He died on 24 December 1994 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Karolina Borchardt was born on 25 November 1920 in Bobruisk, Belarus. She was an actress, known for Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963), Szczesciarz Antoni (1961) and Television Theater (1953). She died on 4 May 2011 in Skolimów, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Igor Kosmachyov was born on 30 September 1935 in Bobruisk, USSR. He was a composer, known for Molodye lyudi (1983), The Wizard of Oz (1974) and Mir v drugom izmerenii. Stress (1993). He died on 13 February 2020.- Elena Piskun was born on 2 February 1978 in Bobruisk, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus].
- Leonid Estrin was born on 25 August 1908 in Bobruisk, Russia [now Belarus]. He was a director, known for Golubaya strela (1959), Gody devichi (1961) and Bukhta Yeleny (1964). He died on 1 March 1972.