Frumin Boris Moiseevich (1947, Riga) — film director and educator.

Boris Frumin was born and raised in Riga. In 1972 he graduated from the directing faculty of VGIK, having studied in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov. Before emigrating to the United States in 1978, he directed three films in the Soviet Union: Diary of a School Director and Mistakes of Youth at Lenfilm (the latter was banned by Soviet censorship and only completed and released in 1989), and Family Melodrama at the Riga Film Studio.

In New York he worked as a professor of film at the New York Institute of Technology and New York University. During the years of perestroika he directed two additional films for Lenfilm: Black and White (1991) and Viva, Castro! (1993). In later years he was invited to Latvia three times to conduct master classes for young film directors.

From 2006 he headed the International Baltic Film Program at Tallinn University. In 2006 he released the film The Illegal (GP Group / Lenfilm), and in 2007 Crime and Weather.

Using romantic and youth-oriented motifs while consistently defending his artistic independence, Frumin worked with exceptional care with actors. Among those appearing in his films were Oleg Borisov, Iya Savvina, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Marina Neyolova, Yelena Solovey, and Aleksei Serebryakov.

His films received numerous prestigious awards: Black and White won the Audience Prize at the Mannheim Festival and the Silver Prize at the Rimini Festival; Viva, Castro! received the main prize at the “Window to Europe” Festival in Vyborg; and The Illegal won the directing prize at the same festival.