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Mikhail Torich, music video director and award-winning filmmaker, MFA in Media-Design, international music video director, photographer and visual artist. His over 15 year artistic work spans across Russia and Germany and into the United States.

Torich produced and directed over 100 music videos for major and independent European and American musicians. His works are broadcasted on top music television channels including MTV, Viva, Deutsche Welle and more.

His mainstream work includes Billboard-Topping music video "Oh Mama Hey" for legendary Crystal Waters, "Departed" for Sully Erna (US-famous Godsmack band), "Speakerphone" - the official contest music video for Kylie Minogue, voted #2 by the youtube audience out of hundreds of submissions, official come-back music video "That's All" for major european pop-star Sin with Sebastian, featured on a number of major music tv-channels and tv-shows in Europe including MTV and Deutsche Welle.

Underground independent musical film "Testo", directed and produced by Mikhail Torich has received the "Best Experimental Film - 2012" award at the 3d annual "International World Music and Independent Film Festival" in Washington, DC.

In 2011 his video art film "Hold Me Closer" has been officially selected to become a part of the Short-List at the annual Cologne-OFF festival, which resulted in worldwide showcases all over the world, including Mexico Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Cologne, Koln, Kiev,
Habana and many more. "Hold Me Closer" has been selected along with around 40 others out of more than 700 international submissions.

As a video artist, Mikhail Torich is a recipient of a prestigious "Best Artist Piece and performance 2011" for his Live-Mix Video Art performance at the annual Re:Vision showcase by Forward Motion Theater at the Tank Theater, New York.

Documentary and news films by Mikhail Torich has been featured in national NBC Nightly News, the highest rated broadcast news program in the United States, NBC Today show, ranked #17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time and russian national channel NTV.

Currently he is working as a video artist and running a music video production studio in New York City and Los-Angeles.

e-mail: mikhail@torich.net

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