Alik Sakharov

Alik Sakharov (Russian: Aлик Сахаров) (born May 17, 1959) is a Soviet-born American television director. A former Director of Photography, he is an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). 2Early life Sakharov was born in Tashkent, former USSR and lived there the first seven years of his life. When he turned eight, Sakharov was moved to Moscow. He spent the next fourteen years of his life there. Sakharov moved to the United States in 1981, settling in the New York City area. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1988. 2Career In 1985, Sakharov entered the U.S. film scene as director of The Russian Touch—a topical documentary about the Russian people comprising the third wave of immigration to the United States. In 1992, he directed a silent short film Pausa—a visual meditation dedicated to the memory of the great poet of cinema Andrei Tarkovsky. Sakharov began sharing the responsibilities of a lighting cameraman in 1985 in the New York industrial video scene, eventually progressing to shooting music videos, commercials, narrative film