Vitaly Mansky
Vitaly Vsevolodovich Mansky (Russian: Вита́лий Все́володович Ма́нский, Ukrainian: Віталій Всеволодович Манський; born 2 December 1963 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a film and documentary maker of Jewish Ukrainian origin. His films have been screened at film festivals worldwide and he has received over 100 international awards. In 2007, he founded the International Festival of Creative Documentary Films Artdocfest. In 2014, he emigrated to Latvia. He is still being persecuted by Russian authorities for expressing his stance on civil rights. Mansky is the president of the IDFF Artdocfest/Riga and a member of the American Film Academy (Oscars).
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1963-12-02 · Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Known for
- Under the Sun (2015) — Writer
- Putin's Witnesses (2018) — Self - Narrator (voice) / (archive footage)
- Close Relations (2016) — Director
- Gorbachev. Heaven (2021) — Writer
- Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach (2006) — Producer
- Virginity (2008) — Director
- Pipeline (2013) — Director
- Clean Thursday (2003) — Producer
- Anatomy of t.A.T.u. (2003) — Director of Photography
- Private Chronicles: Monologue (1999) — Director of Photography
- Motherland or Death (2011) — Director
- Mummies (2001) — Producer
- Unknown Putin (2000) — Screenplay
- Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV (2008) — Director
- 2020. On Love And Freedom (2023) — Director
- Broadway. Black Sea (2002) — Director