Russians Are Coming, The [Institutional License*]

Price: $175.00

E-mail to a friend

Overview

The Russians Are Coming Tour is a collaboration between DCTV and partners, Internews Russia and Internews Network. DCTV’s CyberCar carried five of Russia’s most promising and talented young television reporters to locations across the U.S.

Description

*INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITION LICENSE

After making your purchase, your institution will automatically be issued with an institutional exhibition license for each product (Program) you are purchasing.

A copy of this license will be mailed to you with your order.

The institutional exhibition license when issued entitles your organization to exhibit the Program(s) you have purchased to non-paying audiences, library lending rights, and a lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable. (You must return the defective tape or DVD to qualify.)

All DCTV Programs are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. Duplication and/or commercial exhibition to fee-paying audiences are strictly prohibited.

Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is a not-for-profit media center dedicated to providing access to low-cost or free professional training in all aspects of digital media and production and post-production facilities to independent artists and underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds from all sales go directly towards sustaining DCTV's valuable programs.

Some of the chilly old winds of the Cold War are beginning to blow between the United States and Russia.

To create communication and understanding, five of Russia’s most talented TV reporters hopped aboard the CyberCar – a 40-foot long bus with a Times Square video wall on the side.

From the hollowed hills of Kentucky to the horrors of Hurricane Katrina – from the beaches of Brooklyn to the bayous of Cajun country – the inquisitive Russians searched for the soul of America. Concurrently, they shared slices of Siberian and Post-Soviet life through reports they played on the TV wall to crowds of Americans who gathered around the bus, eager to exchange ideas and experiences.

DCTV co-founder and 15-time Emmy® Award winner, Jon Alpert, who produced the tour, remarked: “This is how modern media can be a tool to build communication and understanding between cultures. We often learn about ourselves as a people by what we show to visitors. There are moments of astonishing revelation, in which what I think is the real heart and soul of America, is shared with our guests.”

It was hoped that The Russians Are Coming! would be the first of many collaborations between the American and Russian peoples. Millions of Russians have already viewed the reports that the Russian reporters made. But on April 18th, 2007 the Russian police raided the office of Internews Moscow and shut the organization down.

The free exchange and the free press this program celebrates, are under attack and could be eliminated.

Credits:

Executive Producers: Jon Alpert, Manana Aslamazyan
Director: Dmitriy Khavin
Producers: Shannon Sonenstein, Marianthi Bumbaris
Host/Russian Producer: Olga Kravtsova
Russian Reporters: Ksenia Cherepanova, Andrey Fedorov, Maxim Voronin, Tatiana Borisova, Yulia Karetskaya
CyberCar Engineer: Chase Pierson

Technical Details:

2007, trt 57 min, English, Color