Maksim Shved was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1979. After graduating in 2002 the law department of the Belorussian State University and working as a small business owner, he decided to realize his ideas in film industry. Maksim started film education at 2013 from intensive course at St Petersburg High School of Directors and Screenwriters. At 2016 he graduated from the Wajda Film School in Warsaw, DOC PRO program. Now Maksim works at television as the director of documentary series “Welcome to Belarus”. Besides, he creates and develops social video and documentary projects.
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