Quicksilver Chronicles
feature documentary, 75 min, 2019
"California dreams are ripped at the seams in Ben Guez and Sasha Kulak's Quicksilver Chronicles, a winning portrait of two aging siblings' defiant, anachronistic eccentricity and the ghostly former company town where they reside." - The Hollywood Reporter
in their youth, had an incredible amount of idealism and energy with
the expectation of creating an alternative version of the “American Dream”
directed by Ben Guez and Sasha Kulak
cinematography Sasha Kulak
produced by Misha MacLaird
executive producer Pedro González Rubio
sound editor Andrey Dergachev
color correction Mikhail Khursevich
Screenings Visions du Réel (World Premiere), Switzerland; Moscow International Film Festival, Russia; Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico; Russian Film Festival Okno Filmfest, Russia (Main Prize; Diploma of the Guild of Film Critics of Russia); Moscow Youth Film Festival Budem Fest, Russia (Diploma); International Documentary Film Festival Flahertiana, Russia; International Film Festival Listapad, Belarus (Best Cinematography Prize); Bogota International Documentary Film Festival, Colombia; Cali International Film Festival, Colombia; Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo (Grand Prix), Bosnia and Herzegovina; Russian Film Festival Sputnik, Poland (Diploma); Russian National Award (Laurel Branch Award), Russia; Cinequest, USA; Ethnocineca, Austria, Atlantidoc, Uruguay; RSI 1 TV, Switzerland.
Request a screener or press materials: quicksilver.chronicles@gmail.com