Hermiona University

Alexander S. Melkumov is a professional cinematographer with over forty years of experience in the industry. He is a member of the IC Cinematographers’ Guild of the Russian Federation and member of the Union of Russian Filmmakers. He was a prizewinner at the Lumiere Brothers’ 2015 “Lumiere Awards,” established by the Advanced Imaging Society based in Hollywood, CA, and received the X Artkino Film Festival Prize for “Contribution to the Development of Film Technology” in 2018. Alexander is also the author of “Stereoscopic Cinema, Theory, and the Practice of Stereo Filming,” a textbook for film students, and is a lecturer at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography.