Dmitry Torgovitsky

Spaghetti Films

BIOGRAPHIE

Dmitry Torgovitsky was born in Moscow, Russia. His mother was a doctor and his father was an electrical engineer. He majored in Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, an elite university built by Joseph Stalin to rival the MIT. Immediately after graduating from the university, Torgovitsky came to the United States and entered graduate school at Fordham University in New York, where he studied molecular biology, supporting himself in a variety of jobs ranging from dishwashing in a Japanese restaurant to delivering helium balloons. After a few years of working in the labs Torgovitsky sent himself to NYU to study film. But he received what he considers his “real film education” at the Millennium Film Workshop, learning from Mike Kuchar and Jennifer Reeves, and by watching hundreds of films, both classic and experimental, at Anthology Film Archives and the now-defunct Theater 80. Torgovitsky freelances in television as a video editor and a producer. The work, he edited, aired on Discovery, History and National Geographic Channels. His editing credits include “Pawn Stars”, the History Channel's highest rated show and the No. 2 reality show of all times, “I Was Prey” for Animal Planet and “My 600lbs Life” for TLC. Torgovitsky has made a few short films, notably "調査 (CHOSA)", “Milieu” and “Looking for Something Special” which played successfully in festival circuits. His recent feature screenplay “Grim Game” competed successfully in numerous script competitions and was a quarterfinalist at the prestigious Gordy Hoffman BlueCat Screenplay Competition and a semifinalist at Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest. THE POPE OF MINEOLA is Torgovitsky’s most recent film. The story follows the lives of several homeless friends who struggle with the need to survive from day to day. In addition, they are not just struggling against the elements of the weather and society, but they are battling each other. The plot explores the themes of survival, temptation, and guilt.

FILMOGRAPHIE