The Bridge Project

Winner of a College Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and two CINE Eagle Awards from the Council on International Non-Theatrical Events in Washington, D.C., “The Bridge Project” is the ground-breaking student film that embraced Mikhail Gorbachev’s “Glasnost” and “Perestroika” in 1988 to become the first filmed collaboration between students in the United States and the former Soviet Union.

The first-ever US/Soviet student film coproduction

Shot on location in Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and Chicago, the project brought together young filmmakers who bridged the gap between their respective countries to express a message of hope and cooperation through their shared visual language of film.

The completed film premiered in Chicago in October of 1988 and was later screened worldwide via satellite to American embassies during the May-June 1990 summit between then presidents George Bush Sr. and Mikhail Gorbachev.