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WINNER - Sundance Film Festival 2020 U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing

Oscar-nominated filmmaker David France (How to Survive a Plague) delivers a suspenseful real-life thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. Inspired by The New Yorker reporting of Masha Gessen, the film follows a courageous team of Russian activists who operate an underground railroad to help LGBTQ Chechens escape face death sentences. To protect the identity of escapees, the film employs a ground-breaking technology of face-masking with AI similar to that used in The Irishman. The film delivers "an emotional gut-punch and a technical wonder all at once" (Indiewire).

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SilverSpot Cinema 11

Director Bio

David France is an investigative journalist who has written for Newsweek, the New York Times and New York magazine. He directed the award-winning 2017 documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (17) and the Academy Award nominated 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plague (12), which received a Peabody Award, an IFP Gotham Award for Best Documentary and numerous festival honors. His subsequent book, How to Survive a Plague, won the Baillie Gifford Prize.

Cast & Credits

Director(s)

David France
Producer(s)

Alice Henty, Joy A. Tomchin, Askold Kurov, David France
Screenwriter(s)

David France, Tyler H. Walk
Cinematographer(s)

Askold Kurov, Dereck Wiesehahn
Composer

Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine

Film Info

Year

2020
Category

Documentary Achievement Award
Country

United States
Run-Time

107 min
Language

English, Russian
Subtitles

English

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