The Lady
Some of my favorite conversations this week have been with filmmaker Christina Voros. A classic beauty and charming presence, she told me about the moment she found out her short was invited to the Festival: "When I got the email from Aaron, I was sitting in an internet café in India and jumped out of my chair!"
Constantly in production, Christina had to miss her films playing in Chicago and Slamdance over the past year, so she's particularly thrilled to be in attendance for the Gen Art Film Fest.
So why India? Christina was working on not one but two new docs: one about the legacy of Indian human rights activist Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, and another about a controversial village tradition of institutionalized prostitution. You know, the light stuff. Today at the Kodak Filmmaker Brunch, she told me how projects seem to find her, not the other way around.
"We'd spent a year following the Garden in Transit story when I got hired as a DP by the producer/philosopher/neurobiologist, Corey Washington, to work on a film in India....that one film split into two and I morphed from DP to director, Sergei from 'sound guy' to co-producer, and suddenly we found ourselves straddling three feature projects... so we're trying to keep our ducks in a row and our heads above water... each story is so important to us that the responsibility is thrilling and terrifying at the same time."Find out more about Christina's projects
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