MIKHAIL LITVYAKOV

He was born May 17, 1938, Leningrad, Russia.

In 1965 he graduated from the film direction department of VGIK (General State University of Cinematography) .

From 1964 worked as the film director at the State Documentary Film Studio of Saint-Petersburg .Author and director more then 40 documentary films. He is a winner of numerous festivals, in Leipzig, Oberhausen, Erevan and many others.

The winner of the state premiums of the USSR and RSFSR, the honored worker of arts of the Russian Federation.

Now, he is the General Director of International Documentary Short and Animated Films "Message to Man" in Saint-Petersburg.