Radiostan

Synopsis:

In October 2009 a group of young filmmakers travelled over the km 3500 that separate Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan from Moscow as part of Cinetrain. Along this route people spoke to them about what's on their mind: immigration, neighbours, the old days in the USSR, dreams and hopes. Just like the dial on a radio they roamed across the frequencies of Central Asia hopping from one station to another offering a unique and human insight into a remote part of the world that is rarely portrayed in the media.

Director: Having achieved top marks at Graphics and Advertising School in Italy, Tomás Sheridan went on to study Photography and Film at Napier University, Edinburgh. In 2008, Tomás directed his first documentary project, Archive of Dreams (funded by Scottish Screen and UK Film Council), which went on to win recognition both in Edinburgh (Public & Jury Prizes at the Jim Poole Awards) and in Turin, Italy (Spazio Torino Prize for best short). Tomás was selected for MEDIA's Engage programme (2009) and the Berlinale Talent Campus (2011), where he developed this project. Tomás works continuously as a director, a cameraman and an editor both commercially and out of passion. Recent work includes When Life Throws Lemons a half-hour doc about an unexpected pregnancy and its effect on the young parents (in production) and his latest documentary project, Radiostan, shot and edited in 4 weeks in Central Asia and Russia as part of Cinetrain 09, which was invited to Moscow International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand and Sheffield Doc/Fest, and recently sold for broadcast to Canal+.