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If ever a country needed rebranding, it's Kazakhstan. The Central Asian nation's international identity is shaped - unfairly, but inescapably - by the hit satirical film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," which lampooned Kazakhstan as hopelessly backward, benighted and bigoted. Kazakh filmmakers hope to shake off that image - and energize their country's movie industry - with a big budget historical epic, "Myn Bala," which opens next month in theaters in the Central Asian nation.
If ever a country needed rebranding, it's Kazakhstan. The Central Asian nation's international identity is shaped — unfairly, but inescapably — by the hit satirical film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," which lampooned Kazakhstan as hopelessly backward, benighted and bigoted.
He said that even though many of his students — and even their teachers — had never made a film before, some showed real promise.
Beyond 'Borat': Kazakhstan hopes to rebrand through movies →
