Knox filmmaker's ET/Russia documentary nearing a wrap

Native of Kentucky, world traveler and independent filmmaker Beth Humpert has spent the past seven years working in East Tennessee to tell a story about Russia.

Inspired by a church mission's trip there in the mid-1990s, Humpert set out to make a documentary she calls "Nuclear Bonds" ("Nuke Bonds," for short). Teaching English during the mission trip to young students was an experience to remember for Humpert, but what inspired her was the way of life for the young children she met there. The students lived inside the fence of a closed nuclear city called Zheleznogorsk.

Zheleznogorsk was founded in the 1950s as a secret military center for the development of the country's nuclear industry, according to www.cncp.ru . Funding for many of the programs was cut in the 1990s and, since then, new entrepreneurial activities have been developed for the city's population, and partnerships have formed with other countries, including Britain and the U.S.

"When I visited them inside the fence, I saw a lifestyle very different than outside the fence. I wanted to make a film about the people I met and their unique life inside a still-closed, formerly secret city," said Humpert.

Humpert approached city authorities for permission to shoot and was declined. But they informed her that Zheleznogorsk had a sister city, Maryville- Alcoa . She packed up and headed to Blount County to learn about East Tennesseans' relationship with Zheleznogorsk.

"What I discovered is that ordinary citizens, like those in Blount County and in Zheleznogorsk, are building friendships that have an indirect, yet powerful, impact on foreign relations and, in turn, play a role in nuclear security and non-proliferation," she said. "That's what the heart of the 'Nuke Bonds' project is, and that's what really inspired me to continue with the project through the years."

Since 2002, Humpert has been documenting the stories of Russian students from nuclear cities who work in East Tennessee as part of the Sister City program, an international program developed by the U.S government after World War II.

There are four students she follows who were 20 when they first came to learn and work in Blount County and are now 29 and back in Russia. But these students weren't the only ones affected. Humpert captures a story of Joe Alexander, a Vietnam vet and Farragut resident whose life was transformed by the Sister City program.

"He hired one of the Russian students, and he was so impressed with this young man that it changed his whole attitude towards the Russian people," said Humpert. "Each year since then his company has hired Russian students for summer work. That particular student now works in Moscow, but still wants to return to the U.S. for more business experience.

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