Serhiy Nakhmanovych Shefir (Ukrainian: Сергій Нахманович Шефір; born 25 May 1964) is a Ukrainian politician and film director. He is the co-founder of Kvartal 95 Studio. From 25 May 2019 to 30 March 2024, he was the First Assistant to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In September 2021, he survived an assassination attempt.
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Early life
Shefir was born on 25 May 1964 in Kryvyi Rih, and graduated from the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute. He is Jewish.
Later, together with his brother Boris Shefir, he created scripts for KVN teams: "Minsk", "Makhachkala tramps", "Zaporizhzhia-Kryvyi Rih-Transit" (CIS Champion), "95th quarter", "XX century team", "XXI century team".
As a director, producer, and screenwriter, he participated in the "Kryvyi Rih Spaniard" and "Zaporizhzhia-Kryvyi Rih-Transit" teams.
Film career
He was screenwriter and producer of more than a dozen films and series. The films Love in the Big City 3, Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon and 8 First Dates were included in the list of 10 highest-grossing films in the history of Ukraine, according to Strana.ua. The film "I'll be there" (Я буду рядом (фильм, 2012)) received the main prize of the Kinotavr festival.