Your Highness Grandmother Pageant

Directed by Hailey Gates · 2020

For nearly two decades, Raisa Chernina has gathered Brighton Beach's Soviet émigré grandmothers to compete in a pageant celebrating them.

A warm, quirky portrait of grandmothers competing for a crown in Brooklyn's Soviet émigré community.

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.

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