Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0005057, Sun, 7 May 2000 16:04:30 -0700

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Fw: Film of Nabokov's "Christmas" (fwd)
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> Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 12:21:43 -0700
> From: Serge Gregory <serge@uswest.net>
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> I thought you might be interested to know that a film that I
> made based on Nabokov's early short story "Christmas" will premiere at
> the Seattle International Film Festival on Monday, June 5th, 7:30pm at
> the Broadway Performance Hall. The film was made locally and funded in
> part by the King County Arts Commission. "Festival rights" were
> obtained from the Nabokov Estate.
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> I have a PhD (1977) in Russian Language and Literature
> from the University of Washington. My Master's thesis was on Nabokov's
> The Gift. I taught a couple of courses on Chekhov and Dostoevsky in the
> Evening Degree Program in the early 1990s. I have been making short
> films for the past five years. The films have been shown at
> Bumbershoot, the Northwest Film and Video Festival in Portland, the
> Grand Illusion and Little Theatre in Seattle, and (of course) on the
> Internet. One of my films Flow, a Vertov-inspired urban montage, was
> recently acquired by the City through a Seattle Arts Commission program.
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> Serge Gregory
> Seattle
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