Migrant Turtle Films is a full service film and video production company founded by Brooklyn based filmmakers, Christina A. Voros and Sergei Krasikau.

Christina A. Voros: Currently a Dean's Fellow in cinematography at N Y Us Tisch School of the Ar'ts Graduate Department of Film and Television, Ms. Voros' careers prior to filmmaking have included that of a stage actor, restaurateur and nationally ranked saber fencer. The only member of her family not to be born in Hungary, Christina was raised in Cambridge, MA, where she later attended Harvard University.

In 2006 she was awarded a Graduate Assistantship in cinematography, working under Tony Jannelli whom she has continued to assist on projects with Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese. Her first documentary short, The Ladies, was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 2006, received a Gold Hugo for Best Short Documentary at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival and is currently being picked up for distribution.

Ms. Voros recent projects include campaign videography for Sen. John Edwards and two documentary features being filmed in India: "Children of Ambedkar ", an investigation into the caste system in contemporary Mumbai, and "Jogni: Sex or Culture", a meditation on ritualized prostitution in rural Andhra Pradesh. Ms. Voros is currently producing and directing "Garden in Transit: The Movie", a documentary feature on the Garden in Transit project (www.gardenintransit.org), the largest public arts installation ever undertaken in New York City.

For more info please go to: www.christinavoros.com

 

 
  Sergei Krasikau: Born in Belarus, Sergei Krasikau began his career in storytelling as a journalist for his nation's biggest independent newspaper.

Upon arriving in the US in 2000, Mr. Krasikau apprenticed to German filmmaker Karola Ritter, regular contributor to Maysles, Pennebaker and Barbara Kopple documentaries, on The Last Piece, a documentary feature on the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton. Covering the anti-war movement on Long Island, Sergei worked extensively with civil rights legend Bob Zellner.

Later credits include several projects with Mohammed Naqvi, US principal photography for Shame a SHOWTIME documentary on ritual gang rape in Pakistan, producing several highly succesfull short films, line producing several independent US and Russia-US co-production features for major Russian networks and studios.

Currently Sergei is producing several feature length documentaries. Among them - Garden In Transit: The Movie, a documentary about the ambitious public art project in NYC.


For more info please go to: www.skrasikau.com