Boris Frumin
Boris Frumin (born 1947) is a Latvian-born Soviet-American filmmaker and screenwriter whose career has crossed three film traditions. Born in Riga to a father who worked at the local documentary film studio, he studied directing at Moscow's VGIK and served as an assistant on Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear (1971). His early Soviet features — Diary of a School Director (1975), Family Melodrama (1976), and Errors of Youth (1978) — fell foul of Soviet censorship and drove his emigration to the United States in 1978. His first film after emigration was Black and White (1992), an intimate drama about a young Soviet medical student in Manhattan and an African-American building superintendent on the Lower East Side. He teaches at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and holds the International Film Chair at the Baltic Film and Media School, and adapted the screenplay for the 2019 Latvian war drama Blizzard of Souls.