Nominated for the 2004 Emmy Awards,
Best Director, Documentary Feature
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2002 Washington, DC Film Festival
Official Selection, International Documentary Association Festival, Los
Angeles
SYNOPSIS
"The Ballad of Bering Strait" is a cinema-verite film
following seven Russian teenagers who have come to America to become
country music stars. Principle photography began in July 1999 when the
band, Bering Strait, entered the United States and began recording their
first album in Nashville. The film documents the band responding to the
twists and turns of the recording industry, rehearsing for their tour,
preparing for their debut concert at the Grand Ole Opry, charting the
course for their career with their managers, and living every-day life on
the farm where they reside in rural Tennessee.
The crew traveled with the band to their homes in Obninsk,
Russia and to their music conservatories in Moscow, documenting how these
two girls and five boys became so adept at playing American country music.
The film culminates with the band's arrival on the U.S. stage at Wolf Trap
National Park.
"The Ballad of Bering Strait" is a two and a half year epic
that follows Bering Strait's amazing cultural fusion-coming of age journey
in America. |
