Sanzhar Sultan was born December 7, 1988. He studied at Downside School, in Bath, England. He completed the IB program at Upper Canada College. He was a member of the Toronto Youth Theatre from 2004-2005. He enrolled in the 2-yr conservatory Directing program at the Lee Strasberg school in New York. He first directed Burning Daylight (2010), a period crime drama with Robert Knepper and Paul Calderon. He wrote and produced Hacker (2015), with Callan McAuliffe and Clifton Collins Jr.