MIR Corporation Travel's video: MIR s 30 Years: Handcrafted Journeys Making MIR Movies

For 30 years MIR has been helping travelers imagine the "screenplays" of their journeys, and then – like an executive producer – builds them into scenes that unfold into life-changing moments and memories. MIR Co-Founder and President, Douglas Grimes, reflects on a favorite MIR "movie genre:" heritage journeys. * Handcrafted closed captions; video transcript below. * Read MIR's story, "MIR's 30 Years: Handcrafted Journeys – Making MIR Movies” – https://goo.gl/IsmP1s * Learn more about "MIR's 30 Years," from its early days in 1986 in the U.S.S.R. to 2016, with stories and videos of this award-winning travel organization: "MIR's 30 Years: MIR in a Nutshell” –- https://goo.gl/wKhpP6 _______________________ SUBSCRIBE: MIR's YouTube channel, MIRCorpTravel: http://goo.gl/I0zCIM _______________________ CONTACT: MIR Corporation – http://www.mircorp.com Destination Specialists since 1986 Small Group Tours • Rail Journeys by Private Train • Custom, Private Trips • Siberia & Western Russia • Central Asia & Silk Road • South Caucasus 1-800-424-7289 ______________________ CREDITS * Photos in video: Michel Behar, Eileeen Bjorkman, Devin Connolly, Douglas Grimes, Peter Guttman, Helen Holter, Martin Klimenta, Helge Pedersen, Lisa Peterson, Luke Rizzuto, Jake Smith. * Video thumbnail photo: Helge Pedersen – Outside mosque in Kazan, Russia. * Endslate photos: Russ & Ellen Cmolik, Lindsay Fincher, Douglas Grimes. * Video story created and edited by Helen Holter. ______________________ VIDEO TRANSCRIPT (Douglas Grimes, MIR Co-Founder & President) 0:00 “When we think about some of the trips that we plan for people and when they come to us, a lot of times there’s just the pieces. We have to put those pieces together and make a scene, or be the producer of this movie that they’re trying to play out. We see ourselves as these executive producers of people’s dream trips. 0:24 “One of them that stands out to me is over the years we’ve had a lot of people going back to their villages or hometowns, or places that their grandparents or great-grandparents grew up in and they heard about in stories, or maybe they were even born there as a very small child but don’t remember it. We’ve constructed a program for them to basically go back to see those places for themselves, and either bring back some of those memories – have them fulfill some dream that they had to go back to the motherland, or to where their father was born, or their great-grandfather was born. 1:04 “Those have been very rewarding trips to help people with because they get so much out of them. The harder it is, the more interesting it is – and we’re up for the challenge."