Family Portrait in Black and White

Boris Ivanov is Interfilm Production's producer in charge of development, production, and marketing for documentaries. His producing credits include the documentaries Love in Translation, Price of Heartache, Fatherhood Dreams, From Russia For Love, and Moscow Freestyle. Other credits include director/producer for one-offs and series broadcasts on The History Channel, TLC, WeTV, and Investigation Discovery.

Born in Moscow, Julia Ivanova was trained in Russian Film Institute (VGIK) before moving to Canada where she concentrated on writing, directing, and producing documentaries. Her first film, From Russia For Love about adoption of older children, has been televised in 26 countries. Her other films include I Want a Woman and Moscow Freestyle. In 2007 she worked as a writer and director on a one-hour documentary about gay fathers and their children called Fatherhood Dreams, which was nominated for Best Documentary by the Canadian Film & TV Production Association Indie Awards, and included on the Best Educational Documentary List by Video Librarian Magazine. In 2010, she directed Love in Translation, an insider look into the dating-tour business to Eastern Europe; and Price of Heartache, a film about international marriage fraud.