A film series about several generations of Russian immigrants in the US

Margaret Zarudny Freeman discussing Russia and Beyond: One Family's Journey, 1908-1935 (2005)
The immense geography of Russia and Beyond — from St. Petersburg to Manchuria to the United States — is matched only by clarity and depth of the author’s personal account of violences. Fleeing the newly-formed Soviet Union following her mother’s death, Zarudny Freeman, taking on a role as primary caretaker for five younger siblings, made a Trans-Siberian journey to the Far East. In 1931, she arrived in America, earning a degree in engineering and then becoming a professor at MIT. Her exceptional journey, as Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1991), wrote “[is] a remarkable evocation, a double one: a revelation of the profound meaning of emigration not written before, and a picture of family relationships enduring the disruptions of historico-political disasters in what must be no less than a unique survival by trust and love.”

Virtuoso pianist Alexander Izbitser (2019, in production)
Featuring an evening of music by Alexander Izbitser at the cultural center of the Russian Samovar restaurant, founded by entrepreneur Roman Kaplan, world-renowned dancer, choreographer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Brodsky.

World renowned pediatric cardiac surgeon George E. Falkowski (in production) (2019, in production)
George Falkowski is a cardiac surgeon (specialising in infants with congenital heart defects) and scientist, one of the foremost Russian specialists in the anatomy of the heart and laureate of the USSR State Prize (1988) and the A.N. Bakulev Prize (2010). The film follows George Falkowski on his quest to uncover his family secrets that have been haunting him for years.