Your Highness Grandmother Pageant

For the past nineteen years, Raisa Chernina has gathered the best and the brightest of Brighton Beach’s Soviet émigrés to compete in the Your Highness Grandmother Pageant.

Directed by Hailey Gates
Produced by Claire Read
Produced by Anais Ngbanzo & Emanuelle Atlan
Associate Producer Valerie Kipnis
Cinematography by Julian Kapadia
Edited by Dylan Edwards
Original Score by Zachary Seman
Sound Design by Nikolay Antonov
Sound by Jon Moore
Second Camera Operator Izzy Cohan
Translation by Valerie Kipnis
Art Department Victoria Cronin
On set producer May Kielany
PA Tyler Coats
Color by Alex Delany
Title Design by Teddy Blanks, CHIPS
Still photographer by Jen Steele
Equipment provided by CPT Rental

Special thanks:
Kazim Karaismailoglu
Raisa Chernina and Sasha Sirotin
Signature Restaurant
Be Proud Foundation
Ramsey Lands
Izzy Cohan and family
Rel Schulman
Sylvia Farago
Olive Uniacke
David Haskell

Commissioned and produced by Farago Projects