Maxim Pozdorovkin


Maxim Pozdorovkin is a Russian filmmaker who is the director and producer of the feature-length documentaries Capital, , The Notorious Mr. Bout, Our New President and the 2018 documentary The Truth About Killer Robots. Our New President follows the story of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and is told entirely through footage from Russian state-sponsored media. The film won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival for Editing.
Pozdorovkin holds a PhD from Harvard University and is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on June 3, 2013.