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Pavel Medvedev (b. 1963) is a documentary filmmaker. He graduated 1990 from the Leningrad State Culture Institute named after Krupskaya in the Department "Cinema/Photo". In 1992 he graduated from the Higher School for TV directors (workshop of Sarukhanov). From 1993 to 2000 he worked as a TV director in St. Petersburg. Since 2000 he is a film director at the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. His documentary "From the Third Planet of the Sun" won the Great Prize in Oberhausen 2007. "The Unseen" won the FIPRESCI award there in 2008.