Official data shows that Russia boasts six million small and medium-sized businesses that flourish in its smaller communities. The creative visionaries and transformative thinkers behind these enterprises, building Russia’s economy and often challenging the status quo, may be known to their communities, but remain invisible to the rest of the country.

We launched “Beyond the Capitals” and set out to identify and celebrate Russia’s most fascinating unknown doers and thinkers.

And this resulting film became one of the outcomes of the project.

The crew of 10 people traveled to the most remote corners of Russia with Alexa Mini + high speed lenses and shoot entire film with natural light only.