Katya

Screening Schedule

Nov. 21 (Sat.) 19:00

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Details

1997. New York City. JFK Airport. A Russian cab driver picks up a mysterious girl from Moscow with enigmatic tattoos. During their taxi ride to Brighton Beach, Viktor discovers his life is fatefully bound to this stranger by a tragedy that tool place abroad a Soviet submarine K-129 in 1968. Inspired by a true event.

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Directed by Mako Kamitsuna
Written by Mako Kamitsuna
Producer: Erin Sweeney
Editing: Mako Kamitsuna
Cast: Chulpan Khamatova, Olek Krupa

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Year of production: 2010
Running time: 22min 38 sec
Country: USA and Japan
Language: English and Japanese

Director

Mako Kamitsuma

Born in Houston, Texas and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, Mako grew up wanting to become an astronaut. At age 6, she realized her natural talent to manipulate image as a communication tool and that perhaps becoming a filmmaker might be a more pragmatic aspiration than dreaming the boundless space above. She gave up pursuing astronomy at UC Berkeley and went on to earn a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University and later attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film MFA program.