Victor Ginzburg (director)
| Victor Ginzburg | |
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| Born |
6 April 1959 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, screenwriter |
| Spouse(s) | Gina Ginzburg |
Victor Ginzburg is a Russian-American director, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films, commercials and music videos. He is best known for the film Generation P (2011).
Ginzburg was born in 1959 in Moscow, a grandson of a famous pianist Grigory Ginzburg At the age of 15, he emigrated to the United States with his mother. He went on to study literature at the New School of Social Research and filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Ginzburg’s student film Hurricane David, a short documentary about victims of cerebral palsy expressing themselves through art therapy, won the GrandPrize at the 1983 Mason Gross Film Festival in Syracuse, New York. Ginzburg next directed Alien Probe, a short film scored to the music of New Order's "Blue Monday" that led to Ginzburg's entry into the music video industry. Ginzburg followed up with several successful music videos for various artists, including Pat Benatar, Lou Reed, Belinda Carlisle and Jody Watley. His music video for Bob Pfeiffer "Maybe It's Stupid” was nominated for Best Music Video in the 1987 New York Film and TV Festival.
Ginzburg’s first feature-length documentary The Restless Garden (1993) was filmed in Moscow in 1991 and documented the cultural and sexual revolution taking place during the fall of the Soviet Union. The film premiered at the Boston International Film Festival in 1994. The film was provocative because of its eroticism and depiction of nudity and led to Ginzburg directing . Ginzburg directed several episodes for the HBO documentary television series Real Sex.
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