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Maria Ibrahimova Yatskova
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This story spoke to me emotionally, intellectually, and visually. But mostly, it made me explore a question that...
During our one month of filming, we knew  that this wasn't going to be an exposé on prison conditions or a human rights story, but rather a film documenting our protagonists' personal stories. We visited their home towns and talked to their families and friends.
We followed the lives of Tatiana, Yulia and Natasha. We filmed Tatiana at her parole hearing where this incredibly vibrant and magnetic person stood shaking before the judge. Yulia's sweet and kind nature, in contrast fireball Tatiana and made us wonder how she wound up in prison. Natasha was a bit of a happy accident. She was living in Voskresenka, a village in the middle of nowhere and we were convinced that we would never be able to find her.
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