Migrant Turtle Films

2009

August
Elena Greenlee's "MARIACHI" has its world premiere at the Rhode Island International Film Festival

July
Christina shoots and directs the new PSA campaign for the Children's Aid Society with the good folks over at PS Pictures (http://www.pspictures.com)

Sergei is a 1st AD on "L to Canarsia" directed by Alice Cox

Sergei starts pre-proproduction on "Icecream", a short directed by Nazir Ki

USA Today picks up the article on "The Ladies" for their Budapest edition! Check it here:

Christina shoots "Urban Myth " a stand-up comedy feature for director Jason Sokoloff

Randy Wilkins' "OSVALDOS" has its New York City premiere at the HBO International Latino Film Festival.

June
Christina gaffs "In Praise of Shadows" (starring Martin Donovan, Josh Lucas, James Franco and Julianne Nicholson) for DP Danny Vecchione and Director Jay Anania

Sergei photographs C. Eule Dance Company performance at Pier 66 in Chelsea, choreographed by Caron Eule.

Randy Wilkins' "OSVALDOS" premieres at the American Black Film Festival. Check out the trailer here:

James Franco's "Feast of Stephen" premieres at the CineVegas Film Festival

"Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement" airs on PBS. Read the Daily News review here:

Christina shoots "Rendered" for director Sofian Khan

May
BUST Magazine features an article on Christina, her work, and "The Ladies" - read it HERE:

Sergei travels to Eastern Europe

April
Christina receives the Spike Lee Award for Documentary Filmmaking for "The Ladies" at the BABELGUM Awards ceremoy at the Tribeca Film Festival !!!!!!!

See the full video INTERVIEW here

Christina operates on James Franco's 16mm film "Herbert White" starring Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon and numerous goats....

March
Christina teams up again with director Jake Kader to shoot his newest short, "Appear, Disappear, Reappear"

"JOGINI:Sex or Culture" receives fiscal sponsorship from the Women Make Movies production assistance program!!!

Sergei is hired by a documentary "Cultures of Resistance" as an AP to run oversees shoots and set up postproduction workflow in New York

Sergei photographs director Costa Gavras for Film Forum in New York

February
Christina shoots "Lottery Ticket" for director Sam Tomfohr - http://www.cufilmfest.com/films/lottery_ticket.html

Christina begins production on "Sweatshop Cinderella" - a documentary on the life of author Anzia Yesierska, for director Suzanne Wasserman

January 2009

Sergei collaborates with writer/director Charles Krezell on a feature length documentary about Barak Obama's inauguration "Bigger Than The Beatles"

Sergei DPs an animated art film "Mama" directed by Yuliya Lanina

Christina and Sergei wrap vidoe production for Boston World Partnerships - www.bostonworldpartnerships.com - an innovative non-profit enterprise created by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, headed by Dave McLaughlin and designed by the good folks at OAT Creative (www.oatcreative.com)

Christina and Sergei wrap production on "Four Women"

December
Christina shoots "MARIACHI" for director Elena Greenlee

Christina and Sergei spend a week hanging out on the set of Saturday Night Live with John Malkovich - shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary for director James Franco

November
The Ladies wins the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Ojai International Film Festival
The Ladies screens at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam
The Ladies screens at St. John’s Women’s Film Festival

Christina and Sergei begin production on "Four Women" for director Alan Roth and producer Professor Rachel Jones of Rutgers University as part of a groundbreaking HIV prevention module funded by the National Institute of Health. Read the New York Times article here:

Sergei is hired by Cultures of Resistance to produce a multicamera shoot of Yes Men's New York Times prank

October
The Ladies wins the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Edmonton International Film Festival
The Ladies screens at the New Jersey Film Festival
The Ladies screens at St. John’s Women’s Film Festival

Christina collaborates with director James Franco on his 16mm short, "The Feast of Stephen"

September
Christina shoots "That's What She Told Me" for director Kim Cummings

Christina & Sergei pair up with John McLaughlin and Rory Keohane to shoot the promotional campaign for Boston World Partnerships

The Ladies screens at Visionfest Film Festival NYC

Christina hits the road for a week down South shooting for "Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement" with Emmy award-winning director Jon Goodman Sergei wraps up production on Sketches from Moscow and Philly, a short film/trailer for Zhenya Kiperman's upcoming feature Philly Thriller

Sergei producers Smoke and Mirrors, Columbia Grad thesis film directed by Theresa Wu

Sergei hired to shoot and edit a PSA featuring Russel Simmons in the effort to reverse White House decision to cut DPA - Downpayment Assistance Program

August
The Ladies wins Best Documentary Short at the Woods Hole Film Festival
The Ladies screens at Anthology Film Archives New Filmmakers series, NYC

Migrant Turtle Films presents: The Ladies and other NYC Love Stories – a curated screening of cutting edge shorts at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater in NYC

Christina completes Near Death a commissioned short in collaboration with IFP and NOKIA shot entirely on the N95 cell phone

Christina shoots and Sergei records sound on director Therese Cator’s short Click

Sergei starts pre-production on Sketches from Moscow and Philly, a short film/trailer for Zhenya Kiperman's upcoming feature Philly Thriller

Sergei starts pre-production on Smoke and Mirrors, Columbia Grad thesis film directed by Theresa Wu

July
Filmmaker Magazine features Christina as one of their 25 new faces in independent film
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 wins Best Documentary Short at Expresion En Corto Film Festival in San Miguel Allende, Mexico

The Ladies screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival

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

The Ladies released on dvd by IndiePix

Rosy premieres at the Nantucket Film Festival
Plum TV interview with christina on the craft of making a short film. Watch Video:

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.