Children of the Great Lake
Directed by Irina Shatalova & Nastia Tarasova
Documentary | 2007 | 26 min
Russia

About the film:
Northern Baikal. A place of former construction of BAM. Here, behind destiny of the lost generations, almost is not visible Beauty and Greatness of Huge Lake. Only warning sound of the shaman’s drum reaches from mountains. But also it does not speak about the future well-being…

Screening Times at Victory Firehouse:
5:15pm Wedneday June 16
5:15pm Thursday June 17

About the Filmmakers:
Nastia was born in the Ural Mountains of Russia. From 1996–2001 she studied at the Ural State university. In 2006 she graduated from the Directors' Faculty of the Film Institute VGIK (course of documentary film of Igor Gelein). Now works and lives in Moscow. She is a prize-winner of both domestic and international film festivals for her various films. She is vo-founder and director of the studio "Albatross".

Irina was born in Moscow. In 2007 she graduated from the Faculty of cinematography of the Film Institute VGIK, where she took Vadim Yusov course (director of photography for various films by Andrei Tarkivski, George Danelia, Sergei Bondarchuck and many others). She is the cinematographer and co-founder of the studio "Albatross".