EXCLUSIVE: Zana Gankhuyag and Joseph Carlson are star in Historical Film , an indie comedy flick marking the debut of director Will Bryan.
The film also features Gregg Turkington (Marvel’s Ant Man , Fremont ), Emily Uribe and Kene Holliday ( Great World of Sound , Matlock ) among others.
The story follows a Mongolian-American college student who, in order to save his student visa, gets roped into participating in a recreation of the manhunt of John Wilkes Booth while making a zero-budget film about the assassin’s last days.
It’s set in and around historic sites in Richmond, Virginia, and made with the participation of members of the Mongolian community including Gankhuyag Natsag, the country’s Cultural Envoy to the U.S. Shooting wrapped last year with scoring have taken place and post-production in the final stages.