Your Highness Grandmother Pageant

2020 · 11 min · Documentary · Directed by Hailey Gates

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. Presented on Shortflix through the official upload on Vimeo.

Credits

• Presented by: Vimeo Staff Picks

Genres

• Documentary

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