The Calvert Journal, A Guide to Creative Russia recently published an article on “Shooting Stars: five Russian female directors to watch,” and one of them—Yana Skopina—was heralded for her short film Milky Way Galaxy:
“Milky Way Galaxy is based on John Updike’s novel The Centaur, which chronicles the complex relationships between a father and son. Shot on 35mm film, a rarity for a short, Skopina made the film as a tribute to Updike ‘In choosing the film’s color scheme, I studied the works of Andrew Wyeth extensively (an American realist painter). Updike and Wyeth were like twin brothers. They even had similar intonations.'”