Sergei Miroshnichenko coming to US with 21 Up

[Donna Seifer]

Dear colleagues, 
Emmy Award-winning Russian documentary director Sergei Miroshnichenko will 
participate in the Mellon Film Symposium at Reed College,"Understanding Russian Culture 
through Film" March 30-April 1: http://web.reed.edu/russian_film/  He will then spend 
April 2-3 with students at Lewis & Clark College visiting classes and presenting his new 
film, "21 Up: Born in the USSR." Portland will be its first US screening.
Schedule: http://www.lclark.edu/dept/russian/eventsinrussian.html  Both the symposium 
at Reed College & the Lewis & Clark film screening are free and open to the public.

Inspired by Michael Apted's "7 Up" series, the Russian documentary follows kids at 7, 14 
and now 21 from all socio-economic levels in Russia from St. Petersburg to Siberia, as 
well as disparate parts of the former Soviet Union, including Central Asia, the Caucasus 
and the Baltic region. They talk about moral values, cultural attitudes, national identity 
and religious faith.  Political upheaval, economic and ethnic tensions surface throughout 
the series. Some now live in Israel, America and the newly independent Georgia, 
Lithuania and Kyrgyzstan. They all have one thing in common. They were born in a 
country that no longer exists.

Miroshnichenko teaches documentary film direction at the State Institute of 
Cinematography in Moscow. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and 
Secretary of the Russian Cinematographers Union.
-- 
Donna T. Seifer
seifer at lclark.edu
donna.seifer at comcast.net

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