Aleksandr Shpagin
Programming director for Russian films on REN-TV
Aleksandr Shpagin graduated from Film Criticism Department of the State Institute for Filmmaking in 1993. Since 1996 he has been the programming director of the Russian cinema section of REN-TV, where he produced the series "The Premiere That Never Happened" (1996-1998), which resurrected a number of very important but virtually unknown films made during the Thaw and Stagnation.