Complex sentence: In 1962 he was admitted to the State Institute of Cinematography (a.k.a VGIK, now Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography), and studied film directing under Lev Kuleshov, and screenwriting under Aleksei Kapler.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1962 he was admitted to the State Institute of Cinematography (a.k.a VGIK, now the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography). He studied film directing under Lev Kuleshov and screenwriting under Aleksei Kapler.