Pavel Khvaleev

Pavel Khvaleev was born in Naberezhnie Chelni in Russia, on May 27, 1984. In 2004 he founded the music project Moonbeam with his brother Vitaly. During the following years Moonbeam became a famous international act in the world wide electronic dance scene. In 2000 they entered the DJ Magazine's annual list of the world's best DJs TOP 100! All 40 official Moonbeam music video clips were directed by Pavel. Many of the video's were part of some official European and American film festivals such as Berlin Independent Film Festival, Shockfest Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Pollygrind Underground Film Festival. In 2012 Pavel Khvaleev debuted with his first full-length cinema as the director of the movie "The Random". In the first week of sales on iTunes (Russia) the debut charted the top 50 of the most downloaded movies. Since 2013 Pavel started the creation of his second movie called "III". 2013 Pavel and his team of only 8 people started the creation of his second feature film called «III». The budged contained only EUR 30000. The movie «III» was selected for official screenings in more then 22 International Film Festivals in 2015 and won many awards, such as "Best Foreign Language Film" and "Best Cinematography" in the USA, Australia and Russia.