SPOTLIGHTSanta BarbaraDiana Markosian takes on the role of director in this cinematic project, restaging her family’s emigration from post-Soviet Russia to America into a surreal rendition of the immigrant experience.Read More
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Santa Barbara
Diana Markosian takes on the role of director in this cinematic project, restaging her family’s emigration from post-Soviet Russia to America into a surreal rendition of the immigrant experience.
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