I am Boy
Cineworks, Glasgow Film Office, British Council in Russia 2001
A hybrid documentary which traces the musical influences on a Siberian boy from childhood through to present day. Misha Maltsev wrote to the Beatles from behind the Iron Curtain and made friends with the boy who worked in his village hall so he could use the photo-copier to assemble his punk style fanzine.( He never actually heard the Sex Pistols until the end of the 1980s because of musical censorship in the former Soviet Union.)The film mixes live 16mm footage from Moscow with 3D reconstructions of Misha's Siberian childhood. I am boy follows the collapse of the former soviet super power and the resulting freedoms and uprising in traditional music forms, influenced by new access to rock.Misha Maltsev now lives in London and continues to DJ and promote Siberian music.
I am Boy was nominated for a BAFTA "Best Documentary" 2001 and has been screened at major festivals throughout the world.