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Mar 21, 2011 · The filmmaker, Robin Hessman, 38, is an American who lived for long periods in Russia after college, and now splits her time between Brooklyn and Boston. She worked on “My Perestroika” for six...
MY PERESTROIKA follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times — from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.
- Robin Hessman – Director / Producer / Cinematographer
- Rachel Wexler – Producer
- Alla Kovgan – Editor
- Garret Savage – Editor
Red Square Productions Robin Hessman graduated from Brown University with a dual degree in Russian and Film. She received her graduate degree in film directing from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow (with a “red diploma” of honors). She received an Academy Award® in 1994 – with co-director James Longley – for their ...
Rachel Wexler runs Bungalow Town Productions in the UK with her partner, director/producer Jez Lewis. She specializes in producing international feature documentaries for a worldwide audience. She has worked with many award-winning filmmakers including Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon), Marc Isaacs (All White in Barking, Men of the City), and Ol...
Born in Moscow, Alla Kovgan is a Boston-based filmmaker. Films that she directed and codirected have been presented at festivals worldwide, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival, and numerous others. She edited and co-directed the documentary feature Traces of the Trade which premiered at...
Garret Savage’s work spans a variety of formats including documentaries, fiction features, film trailers, short films, and television commercials. His documentary editing credits include Paper or Plastic? (retitled Ready, Set, Bag!; Los Angeles Film Festival 2008), Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern’s End of America, and an episode of the forthcoming H...
Mar 31, 2022 · Robin Hessman is an award-winning filmmaker with a special interest in international stories. She recently produced "Simple As Water" which was shortlisted for an Oscar for Best Documentary (HBOMax).
Filmmaker Robin Hessman (right), who spent eight years living in Russia in the 1990s, returned in 2004 to film her documentary about the country's turbulent shift toward democracy.
Jun 22, 2011 · In "My Perestroika," filmmaker Robin Hessman traces the last generation raised in the Soviet Union through the eyes of five Muscovties, from childhoods filled with propaganda to life in the new...
Jan 8, 2010 · Robin Hessman makes her Sundance debut with “My Perestroika,” a documentary that “adopts the idea of the ‘everyman story,’ suggesting that the unheralded lives of the last generation of ...
