Education
Having completed the higher courses for script-writers and directors, he worked at the Azerbaijanfilm studio as a director and producer of feature films from 1985.
Having completed the higher courses for script-writers and directors, he worked at the Azerbaijanfilm studio as a director and producer of feature films from 1985.
Since 2006 he has been the president of the Space television and Radio Company. In 1982, he was accepted on two-year higher courses for script-writers and directors at the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Cinema in Moscow (Eldar Ryazanov"s creative workshop). Between 2001 and 2006 he was deputy minister of culture of the Azerbaijan Republic.
In same year, he was also awarded the Badge of Honour for Contributions to Friendship of the Russian Foreign Ministry"s Russia Abroad Centre.
Vagif Mustafayev held a master class on Laughter Brings Peoples Closer for film and television personnel from more than 20 countries at the Russian Union of Film-Makers" House of Cinema on 8 November 2008, as part of the 11th Eurasian television Forum. Vagif Mustafayev filmed and showed several major projects over the course of 2009.
The six-part documentary "History of Our Security" (2009) was the first frank, extensive account of the history of the security bodies in Azerbaijan from 1918 to the present day. The documentary "Strategy of Success" (2009) about Heydar Aliyev"s creation of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan.
Vagif Mustafayev was for the second time elected chairman of the authoritative international jury of the 12th Eurasian television Forum, held in Moscow from 26 to 30 November 2009.
Vagif Mustafayev headed the jury at the Sixth International Festival of War and Patriotic Films, which was held from 16 to 20 December 2009 in Volokolamsk (Moscow Region) and was dedicated to the 65th anniversary of victory in the Second World War. In 2010, Vagif Mustafayev shot a four-part documentary "The History of Oil in Azerbaijan". The State". Heydar Aliyev, who put Azerbaijan on the map in the 1970s after he became leader of the republic, built a powerful independent state.
The film tells of the unimaginable difficulties and obstacles faced by the national leader and the heroic way in which he overcame them.
Between 1999 and 2013, Vagif Mustafayev made 12 films about the life and work of Azerbaijan"s National Leader Heydar Aliyev.