Capital

Maxim Pozdorovkin
  • USA
  • 2010
  • 72min
  • Color
International Competition

Synopsis

After Kazakhstan moved its capital to Astana, aprovincial town in the steppe was turned in to a futuristic metropolis. But as the young capital prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary, fear over the financial crisisspreads, leaving construction sites empty and the future uncertain. In this city of endless cranes, Astana's first generation finds itself caught between the official vision and life’s realities on the outskirts of utopia.

Director

  • Maxim Pozdorovkin
    Maxim Pozdorovkin is a director and writer based in Brooklyn,NY. Born in Moscow,hehaslivedandworkedinNewYork,SanFrancisco,andBerlin.AfterstudyingfilmatHarvardUniversity,Maximdirectedthreeshortfilms, , and :. Maxim’s next project is a feature length film, acollaborative media documentary project on the history of the AK-47 machine gun. is his first feature length film.

    Miss Mend: A Whirlwind Vision of America(2009)
    Not on Route Six (2008)
    Each and Every Thursday (2007)

Credits

  • Director  Maxim Pozdorovkin
  • Producer  Maxim Pozdorovkin, Joe BENDER
  • Cinematographer  Joe BENDER
  • Editor  Maxim Pozdorovkin, Joe BENDER
  • Music  Dmitry YANOV-YANOVSKY
  • Sound  Ernst KAREL

Production Company

  • Production Company  Third Party Productions
  • Address  506 Greene Ave Apt 3, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
  • Tel  914 374 4334
  • Email  mpozdorovkin@yahoo.com

Distributor/World Sales

  • Distributor/World Sales  Third Party Productions