Pavel Medvedev

Film director, Jury President

was born in Orenburg in 1963. He graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Culture (directing and cinematography department, workshop of L. Gorin and D. Zhukhina) in 1990. From 1991 to 1992 he took Superior Courses of TV directing (workshop of V. Sarukhanov). Since 2002 – a film director at the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Since 2009 – the artistic director of the Bear-Film studio. Since 2010 – a teacher of the creative workshop of non-fiction films at the St. Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television.