An LA Story: The Making of the Award-Winning Notes from the New World

An LA Story: The Making of the Award-Winning Notes from the New World

🎞️ Movie --
2025

SOMEONE -- OR SOMETHING -- DID NOT WANT THIS MOVIE TO BE MADE... It had the hallmarks of a thriller: betrayal and abandonment. Lies and innuendo. Colleagues caught up in a mysterious ancient cult. A side project gone terribly wrong. But these occurrences were not part of the script; they took place in real life behind the scenes of the production. The original concept was daunting enough: a contemporary, sun-drenched re-imagining of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's dark 19th century classic, Notes from the Underground. At the outset, writer/director Vitaly Sumin had a script, a location, a vision, and no budget. But he'd been down this road before; his critically acclaimed previous film, Shades of Day, was an LA story based on another Dostoevsky novella, White Nights. Since he did it once, everyone assumed, he could do it again -- until a tsunami of unforeseen challenges threatened to tear these 'Notes' to shreds. Behind the Scenes -- The Making of Notes from the New World stands as a compelling story in its own right, sure to inspire filmmakers and anyone else who wishes to achieve the impossible.

Cast

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Vitaly Sumin
Self
Self
Rebecca Light
Rebecca Light
Self
Self - Irina
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Natasha Blasick
Self
Self - Sonia
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Nathanael Theisen
Self
Self - Steven
Devorah Lynne Dishington
Devorah Lynne Dishington
Self
Self - Michelle
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Maxim Pollack
Self
Self - Misha
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Corey Macri
Narrator
Julia Emelin
Julia Emelin
Self
Self - Linda
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Nick Tereschenko
Self
Self - Igor
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Sylvia Lee Mann
Composer
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Gerardo Perez Giusti
Composer
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Christine Adams
Cinematographer
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Ben DeSousa
Cinematographer
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Jon Edwards
Cinematographer
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Stephane Fiorenza
Cinematographer