Spectacular world premiere of Coming Home at Moscow Film Festival

Here is what  J. Mitchell Johnson, the director told Bruno Chatelin  (filmfestivals.com founder)

"The "World Premiere" screening was very successful. We had a good-size audience, a VERY LARGE AND GREAT SCREEN with a FANTASTIC sound system and the film was very impressive. The theater was very, very large and our group didn't fill the theater but there was a good crowd.

The head of the documentary program for the Festival introduced me before the film, and with an interpreter I made a short introduction. After the film I answered a great many questions and even a lively dialogue came forth about the fate of the missing women and I made such a film. After the Q&A I could barely leave the theater. There was a long line of young people who wanted to meet me and share their admiration for the work. I ran out of time to answer questions......

I am surprised at the intensity of interest in the film from very young people and old alike. There is fertile ground here for getting the film on national television here whether we win or lose. The film is resonating with the Russian public (and I can see with the Native American audiences) in a powerful way.

People love the music. They are surprised when they hear that Ivan Volkov wrote the music. He is rather famous here and a major theatrical actor and music composer who belongs to the permanent cast of the Moscow Art Theater. Ivan invited Svetlana and I to the packed Moscow Art (Chekov) Theater on Friday night where we saw Ivan Volkov play a key role in an amazing version of DON QUIXOTE. He would like to score my next movies I am currently working on so I am lucky.

I have seen alot of different kinds of theater in my time in different parts of the world, and my opinion is that the "crazy" and super avante-garde version of Don Quixote that we saw was the most amazing play (mixed media by the way....also scored by Ivan). Ivan, Svetlana and I had dinner after the play and talked to after midnight. He was very pleased about working with our film. What I can say is that artistically something important is happening here in Russia now on an artistic level (my opinion). 

Anyway, a long story short, something is happening with all of this and the film. Maybe I had one too many cups of coffee this morning but when I think about Stanislovski, his world-wide importance, and how Ivan composed the music based on Kashia real melodies and other sounds.....and more importantly the "performances" of Martina, Jerry and Otis in terms of how "real" and talented they are as artists......the film has a dramatic and compact power that most documentaries lack.....meaning that the film's "truth" and integrity supports the story about the American genocide, the struggle for land (everywhere) and cultural recovery....and the return to "reciprocity" as a natural principal of democracy.......it is a story of for our times on a broader scale than I realized. 

Anyway, that's a long answer to your question of how the screening went.  

J.Mitchell Johnson

Thank you Mitchell!

Bruno Chatelin