| TR-50093-09 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. | The Big Show in Bololand | 9/1/2009 - 7/31/2010 | $800,000.00 | Austin | | Hoyt | | | | Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. | Melrose | MA | 02176-3933 | USA | 2009 | History, General | America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Public Programs | 800000 | 0 | 593333 | 0 | Production of a 60-minute film and an accompanying website about the efforts of the American Relief Administration to combat starvation in the new Soviet Union from 1921 to 1923.
"The Big Show in Bololand" is a 60-minute documentary on the work of the American Relief Administration (ARA) to combat stavation in the new Soviet Russia from 1921-23. It will focus on the challenges faced by two ARA volunteers. In the background are the distrust and the political agendas of an ardent anti-communist, the ARA's director Herbert Hoover, and the leader of Russia's new regime, Vladimir Lenin. |