Peter
Lutsik

He was born in 1960. After a childhood spent in Berezan, a village in the Kiev region, he lived in Uzbekistan. A gifted mathematician, he enrolled at university to study the physical characteristics of the oceans, but eventually graduated from the Institute of Steel and Metallurgy in Moscow in 1982. After a short stint working in a foundry, he became assistant director at Uzbekfilm Studios, where he also had the opportunity to act. In 1990 he graduated in screenwriting from the VGIK in Moscow. From 1986 to 1994, with his fellow student Alexei Samoryadov, who later died tragically, he wrote eight screenplays that became the most controversial films of the years in which they were produced: Gongofer (1992, directed by Bachyt Kilibayev), Dyuba-Dyuba (1992, directed by Alexander Khvan), The Children of Cast-Iron Gods (1993, directed by Tamás Toth), Limita (1994, directed by Denis Yevtigneyev). The two young authors won the prestigious Nika, an award given by the Academy of Russian Filmmakers, three times. Prior to his debut feature Outskirts, Lutsik shot the short film On the Eve (1989). Outskirts was presented at the following festivals: Montreal Film Festival 1998 - Telluride Film Festival 1998 - Mill Valley Film Festival 1998 - FIPRESCI Prize Chicago Film Festival 1998 - Berlin Film Festival 1999 - Trento Mountain and Exploration Film Festival 1999.