Thirteen years Andrey Nikolaevich held the position of head of directorial workshops of non-fiction films at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors. Today he works as rector of the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors and runs a workshop. In 1961 he graduated from Kuibyshev MISI. Four years later, the studio of B. A. Altshuler and L. V. Kuleshov in the specialty of film directing. Then for a long time he was a film director at the Central Studio of popular science and educational
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Thirteen years Andrey Nikolaevich held the position of head of directorial workshops of non-fiction films at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors. Today he works as rector of the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors and runs a workshop.
In 1961 he graduated from Kuibyshev MISI. Four years later, the studio of B. A. Altshuler and L. V. Kuleshov in the specialty of film directing. Then for a long time he was a film director at the Central Studio of popular science and educational films.
In his creative folder eleven full-length and almost forty short films. They differ in genres, themes, style. Many of them were noted at competitions, awards and festivals. For example, for the films “Creators of domestic weapons” and “They forged the weapon of victory”, the director received a silver medal. A. P. Dovzhenko. Dilogy "Enthusiasts" and "Children of the Galaxy" became a nominee for the State Prize of the USSR. Gerasimov’s films are known to the domestic audience, they can often be seen on many television channels.
Andrey combined his professional creative activity with active participation in the public life of the film industry. In 1971, he was included in the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR, after which he was permanently appointed a member of the Moscow section of scientific cinema and a member of the All-Union Commission of Scientific Cinema, later becoming its chairman.
At the Fifth Congress of Cinematographers in 1986, he became Secretary of the Board of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. And nine years later - Chairman of the Audit Commission of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation. Today he is secretary of the Moscow Union of Cinematographers. In 1989-90, Gerasimov was the author and host of the famous monthly television program “Hour of Popular Science Cinema”. /