Biography
A graduate from the Leningrad Engineering Academy and the Moscow Film School, Spilny has written, directed and produced over 40 documentaries and feature films in the Soviet Union, Israel, Europe, Africa, Canada, and the United States. Spilny came to Los Angeles in 1980 and together with Fries Entertainment he developed and co-wrote Stalin, eight-hour mini-series for CBS, as well as a number of other projects for television networks. In 1987, Spilny wrote and produced Stalingrad, the first theatrical motion picture co-production between Warner Brothers and MosFilm Studios, Moscow. The next year he produced Cops in Russia (FOX Television Network), the first television special about the Soviet Police in the history of the American television. In October 1988, Spilny founded USSR Film Service Corporation -- a joint venture with Soviet State Film Committee. In two years, he built the company into a successful, high-profile management-production organization with regional offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Among USSR Film Service Corporation productions are Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991), an MOW for TNT; Friends of Summer, a Movie Of The Week for HBO; a Russian segment of Sharks of Steel, four-hour mini-series for the Discovery Channel, Inside The KGB, a 90-minute, prime-time special for NBC network television, where Spilny was an executive producer. Spilny has recently co-founded BooksToEnjoy.com, a company that is publishing beautifully illustrated books for children, unique books that entertain, educate and are in perfect accord with those virtues that are vital in teaching children.
