Two alumni of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will represent the feature film “Little Brother” from Kazakhstan at the 70^th Venice International Film Festival, one of oldest and most prestigious film festivals in the world.

WVLT-TV Account Executive Dinara Aprymova (BS / JEM ’09) served as executive producer of the film while her brother Alisher Aprymov (Business Administration, ’13) had a leading role. The film was written and directed by their father Serik Aprymov.

“I grew up in the filmmaking environment, and have been helping my parents manage correspondence in English with film festivals, producers and directors from … Read more “JEM alumna to compete in 2013 Venice Film Festival”