Migrant Turtle Films

2008

July
The Filmmaker Magazine writes Christina up in their annual 25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM series
It‘s hard to comprehend Christina Voros‘s life from her résumé alone. Asked to confirm what looks to be three feature documentaries in production, an in-progress graduate degree in film at NYU, a simultaneous stint as a videographer for the John Edwards campaign, d.p. credits on a dozen other people‘s films and, finally, listing as a national-ranked saber fencer, she just laughs. more

Sergei returns to West Virginia for the last week of filming of Toxic Soup

The Ladies screens at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
C&S go Czech Republic to attent the festival

June
The Ladies wins the Special Jury Prize at Seattle International Film Festival
The Ladies screens at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Ladies screens at Silverdocs – June 17th & 20th
The Ladies screens at the Provincetown Film Festival

Rosy premieres at the Nantucket Film Festival

Sergei returns to West Virginia to continue work on Toxic Soup

Christina shoots Randy Wilkin’s narrative short film Osvaldo’s in NYC

Rosy screens at the DGA in Los Angeles.

May
The Ladies screens at the Seattle International Film Festival

C&S escape for two weeks to do some shooting at the Jungle Butterfly Farm in Costa Rica

The Ladies wins the Golden Gate Award for Best Short Documentary at the 54th San Francisco Int'l Film Festival

The Ladies wins honorable mention at the Athens International Film Festival

Production continues on Toxic Soup…highlights include adventures with a spy cam in DC, hanging out with the Steelworkers Union in Pittsburg, crashing the Dupont Shareholders meeting in Delaware, cruising superfund sites along the Ohio Scenic Byway and chatting on the front porch in Roanoke with the incomparable Mudcat Saunders.
Biggest Interview to date: Bill Clinton.

April
WE LOVE GEN ART !!!!!!!! enormous thanks to Aaron, Jeff, Ciara, Ian, Saskia Wilson-Brown, David Jr. and the entire Nightlife crew, for an incredible 7 days. We miss you guys already....
To watch David Jr.'s GenArt web videos click here
To check out the Nightlife trailer click here

The Ladies wins the Jury Prize for the Best Short Film at GenArt Film Festival

The Ladies screens at GenArt Film Festival with Doug Pray's magnificient film Surfwise http://www.alohadoc.com For premier photos click here
For our story on the GenArt blog click here

Welcome to the WV – “open for business” on arriving back from India I received and email from (friend/filmmaker/and screenwriter of Rosy) Rory Owen Delaney who needed a camera sound team for a documentary he was directing in West Virginia on the state of the chemical Industry in America. Toxic Soup. Needless to say, we jumped in the car and found our way to the WV.

The Ladies screens at the 2008 Newport Beach Film Festival
The Ladies screens at the 2008 Atlanta Film Festival
The Ladies screens at the 2008 Athens Film Festival
The Ladies screens at the 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival

C&S spend a weekend at the Tampa Bay Downs race track, with director Tara Anderson filming her documentary short Backstretch, a portrait of jockey-turned-horse trainer Jim Anderson

Rosy screens as part of NYU's First Run Film Festival

Rosy is nominated for a Wasserman Foundation award

Rosy is the recipient of NYU Craft Awards in screenwriting (Rory Owen Delaney) and editing (Keith Davis).

March
Production continues on Children of Ambedkar and Jogini: Sex or Culture. Full month spent in beautiful, dusty and mysterious India. For the most recent article on us in the Indian press: US documentarist explores Indian caste system

The Ladies is selected for the 2008 GenArt Film Festival http://www.genartfilmfestival.com/2008/films/day-4.html
The Ladies is selected for the 2008 Newport Beach Film Festival
The Ladies is selected for the 2008 Atlanta Film Festival
The Ladies is selected for the 2008 Athens Film Festival
The Ladies is selected for the 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival

Rosy is nominated for a National Board of Review Student Grant

The Ladies screens at IFC as part of "The Best of Slamdance" program alongside Greg Kohs' remarkable feature Song Sung Blue

Charles Krezell's Medium Hot, Sergei's first feature as a DP shot in 2004, screens at Anthology Film Archives as part of "New Filmmaker Series" http://www.mediumhot.net

February
The Ladies is selected for the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival.

Post-production wraps for “Rosy”!!!!!
*Thanks to Keith Davis (http://www.keithldavis.com/)
Andrew Barkan (http://andrewbarkan.com/)
& to Neil Benezra (http://brooklynsoundsociety.com/)

Back to India: C&S depart for a month in Mumbai and Andhra Pradesh to continue filming “Children of Ambedkar” and “Jogini: Sex or Culture”

January
The Ladies wins the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at Slamdance Film Festival
The Ladies is selected for the 2008 Florida Film Festival.
The Ladies is selected for the 2008 SXSW Film Festival

2007

December
Principal photography wraps for “Garden in Transit: The Movie”.

“John Edwards: For the Country” released. http://www.johnedwards.com/media/video/ruraldvd/

Christina shoots “Slavenka” for director Katy Scoggins. (HD)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marlyhernandez/sets/72157603407261662/

Sergei produces “The Whirling Dervish” for director Rory Bain. (HD)

Christina takes a quick spin in the world of reality TV – doing a week of greenlight shoots for MTV’s “MADE”.

November
Production wraps on “John Edwards: For the Country”.

The Ladies screens at the 23rd Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada.

Christina & Sergei chosen as guests at Current TV/ Fader Films symposium “Day of Dialogue: 50 emerging voices in non-fiction film”.

October
The Ladies wins the Gold Hugo for Best Documentary Short at the 43rd Chicago International FF.
The Ladies wins Honorable Mention for Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival.
The Ladies screens at the New Orleans Film Festival.

September
The Ladies screens at the Boston Film Festival.

Christina shoots “Cupcake” for director Sean McPhillips. (35mm)

August
The Ladies premieres at the Montreal World Film Festival.

July
Filming commences for “Children of Ambedkar” and “Jogini: Sex or Culture” in India.