{"72191":{"#nid":"72191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Film Wins Campus MovieFest Grand Finale","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Fanya Kaplan,\u0022 directed by students Michael Gluzman and Brad Herrmann, won Best Picture at the Campus MovieFest National Grand Finale last Friday.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe film is a Russian-language historical narrative based on a woman who attempted to assassinate Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in 1918. The movie credits Kaplan\u0027s attempt with helping to start the Red Terror, in which thousands of people were arrested and executed without trial by Lenin\u0027s government.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGluzman, an industrial design major, met Herrmann, a mechanical engineering student, at the Campus MovieFest competition last year. Herrmann had entered his film \u0027Casuality,\u0027 while Gluzman showed his movie \u0027Vendetta.\u0027 In addition to competing in CMF, Herrmann also runs the student organization Buzz Studios.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We got to talking and made small talk about working together next year,\u0022 said Gluzman. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnlike most small talk, this conversation actually led to something and the two decided that this year they wanted to make a war movie. Gluzman came across Kaplan\u0027s story while doing research and decided that bringing it to fruition would be difficult enough to make it worthwhile. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe biggest challenge was filming the movie in Russian. None of the actors, except for Gluzman, knew the language, so he and friend Ildar Musin taught the actors all they needed to know for the film in about a week. Gluzman spent six hours working with lead actress and Herrmann\u0027s fianc\u00c3\u00a9e, Becky Tucker, and spent two hours working with co-star Matt Perry. In addition to the one-on-one language lessons, Gluzman gave his actors MP3s of himself reading the lines, so they could hear how they should sound.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There was a lot of doubt as to whether we could pull it off in Russian,\u0022 Gluzman said. \u0022The other option was accents.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELike most historical films, the piece does take some liberties with the material. Gluzman said they added the roles of Kaplan\u0027s accomplices and a scene in an interrogation room to heighten the drama.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBorn in the Soviet Union, Gluzman moved with his family to Atlanta in 1990, when he was three years old. He hadn\u0027t heard about Kaplan\u0027s story before he began researching for the film, but once he discovered it he found that his family was well-versed in the tale. According to Gluzman, even though Kaplan wasn\u0027t successful in assassinating Lenin that day, he was seriously wounded. The bullets, which were never removed from his neck, are speculated by some historians to have caused the stroke that took his life six years later. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe film was written by Gluzman\u0027s friend Wesley Wingo, a film student at New York University, and the original music was composed by Tech student Rolan Duvvury. Gluzman\u0027s father played the old Russian revolutionary song \u0027Varshavianka\u0027 on the accordion for part of the soundtrack. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGluzman said he and Herrmann plan to restore a scene they had to cut to pare the film down to the regulation length of six minutes. The scene doubles the running time of the film, but would make it closer to their original vision. They plan to enter this newly edited director\u0027s cut into film festivals.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u0022Fanya Kaplan,\u0022 directed by students Michael Gluzman and Brad Herrmann, won Best Picture at the Campus MovieFest National Grand Finale last Friday.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fanya Kaplan tops national film competition"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2007-04-24 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:00:50","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72192":{"id":"72192","type":"image","title":"Becky Tucker as Fanya Kaplan","body":null,"created":"1449177446","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:26","changed":"1475894651","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:11"}},"media_ids":["72192"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu\/buzzstudios\/","title":"Buzz Studios"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.campusmoviefest.com\/finale\/national07.html","title":"Campus MovieFest"},{"url":"http:\/\/campusmoviefest.com\/finale\/igf07.html","title":"See Fanya Kaplan Here"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2400","name":"fanya"},{"id":"2404","name":"fest"},{"id":"2402","name":"film"},{"id":"2405","name":"gluzman"},{"id":"2406","name":"herrmann"},{"id":"2407","name":"lenin"},{"id":"2401","name":"movie"},{"id":"2403","name":"moviefest"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}