Forge Cinema · Directors
Semion Bagirov
Director · Director of photography · AI filmmaker
Twelve years behind the camera as a director and DoP, and now one of the fastest growing AI filmmakers working today. Semion brings real set craft, light, lens and blocking, into a hybrid AI pipeline, and gets cinematic results at a fraction of a traditional budget. He directs for Forge Cinema.
100Mviews in the first week, Apple of Knowledge
300M+music video views since 2017
350K+Facebook audience built from zero
12years behind the camera
Highlights
- Apple of Knowledge, 2026AI series, creator and director. A hundred million views in the first week.
- Audience he built himselfInstagram from 6K to 124K, Facebook from zero to 350K+, YouTube past 30K.
- Music videos300M+ views since 2017. Ravnodushie, for Malbec and Suzanna, alone passed 170M.
- Feature cinematographyDirector of photography on a historical feature about the icon painter Andrei Rublev, nominated at Bilbao 2026, and on films about St. Sergius of Radonezh.
- FujifilmFormer brand ambassador and master class instructor.
Experience
- Creator and director, Apple of Knowledge2026 to now
- Director of photography, feature production companyNow
- Music video director and DoP2017 to now
- Owner, video production companyEarlier
- Brand ambassador and instructor, FujifilmEarlier
Craft
DirectingCinematographyLightingEditingSeedance 2.5ComfyUIBlender 3D blockingViral short formSeriesTeaching
Have a script and a budget? Put Semion on it.
Semion directs through Forge Produce: the Forge crew runs the breakdown, the boards, generation and delivery inside a project you can open any time, and he holds the picture together. Tell us what you are making and we come back with questions, then a quote from the breakdown.