"Eastern Front" director.
He was born in 1963 in Lviv / Ukraine (USSR at that time). He graduated from VGIK (the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography) in 1989 and became one of the most prominent contemporary Russian documentary filmmakers and producers. He has directed over 30 films which have been screened at almost every major festival around the world and have won over 100 international awards. Since 2007, he is the founder and president of the International Festival of Creative Documentary Films ‘Artdocfest’ (its activity was halted in 2022 due to censorship in Russia, as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine). He is persecuted by the Russian authorities for defending his civic position. In 2020, he founded the International Documentary Film Festival ‘Artdocfest/Riga’. V. Mansky emigrated from Russia to Latvia in 2014.
