2012/10/04 Filmmaker Henry Corra visits Ural Region

2012/10/04

Henry Corra meets with film festival attendees (Photo belongs to the US Dept of State)

Documentary filmmaker Henry Corra made his first trip to Russia to participate in the long-running 'Rossiya' film festival. During his trip, he showed four films, spanning his career, touching audiences with stories of universal human struggles, such as war, cancer, and alcoholism. Audiences raved about the realism and truly identified with Corra and the American film subjects.

During the visit, Henry Corra showed 'Umbrellas', one of his first films, 'Jack', and 'The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan'. The films premiered at movie theatres, with special showings at the Metenkov photo gallery and Contemporary Art Institute. In a special master class at the Humanities University, Henry Corra premiered an excerpt of his current project, 'Farewell to Hollywood', which he had only just began editing. The showings drew a diverse crowd and viewers described the films as 'breathtaking' and 'identifiable for persons of any country, who have experienced hardship, war, suffering...'