When we returned from Russia in August of 2013, emotionally and mentally exhausted,  I handed Skip Armstrong, our director, a huge pile of disparate stories, footage, and audio.  He had agreed to cut a film out of whatever we brought back many months prior. He had no idea what he was getting into at the time. It was a massive and emotional undertaking.  Skip spent 7 months toiling over the making of the film and made nothing short of magic from a complex web of footage and stories.…

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