YOU HAD TO BE THERE: HOW THE TORONTO GODSPELL IGNITED THE COMEDY REVOLUTION… Q&A with Filmmaker Nick Davis & Co-Writer Jane Mend
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Born in St. Petersburg, Julia Loktev emigrated from the Soviet Union to the U.S. at age nine. She has made both fiction and documentary features. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW has won the Gotham Award, the National Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction, was nominated for a Spirit Award and shortlisted for the Oscars®. It was named one of the Top 10 Films of the Year in The New York Times, New Yorker, New York Magazine, NPR Fresh Air, and Slate. It played at Berlinale, New York Film Festival, Berlinale and IDFA’s Best of Fests, played theatrically at Film Forum and in limited release across the U.S., and is streaming on MUBI. THE LONELIEST PLANET starring Gael Garcia Bernal, premiered at Locarno, screened at the New York Film Festival, received the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival, nominations for Best Director at Independent Spirit Awards, and Best Feature at Gotham Awards, and was chosen by IndieWire as one of the “100 Best Films of Last Decade.” DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight, received two Gotham Awards nominations, and earned the Someone to Watch Award at Independent Spirit Awards. Her documentary MOMENT OF IMPACT won the Sundance Film Festival Documentary Directing Award and the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Reél, screened in New Directors/New Films at MoMA, and was an Independent Spirit Awards Truer Than Fiction nominee. Julia is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emerging Icons Award from the George Eastman Museum.
Irina Dolinina is an investigative reporter at Important Stories, which has been deemed an “undesirable organization” by Russia and is now based in Prague. She was one of the first two dozen journalists Russia declared a “foreign agent.” She works on corruption and human rights abuses, reporting on the Pandora Papers, the torture and killing of a Ukrainian journalist in Russian prison, and Russian channels that profit from snuff videos from the war.
Valeria Ratnikova is the youngest anchor at TV Rain, which was Russia’s last remaining independent news station until it was forced to flee into exile. Declared an “undesirable organization” by Russia, TV Rain now operates from Amsterdam. Russia has sentenced her in absentia to 7.5 years in prison for talking about Russian war crimes in Ukraine and declared her an Extremist and Terrorist.
Ksenia Mironova is an exiled Russian journalist now based in New York. When she was 22, her home was searched and her partner, also a journalist, was arrested for “treason.” He remains in prison today. Ksenia’s work focuses on political prisoners, on Ukrainians who have suffered due to Russia’s invasion, and on the repression of human rights in Russia.
Irina Dolinina is an investigative reporter at Important Stories, which has been deemed an “undesirable organization” by Russia and is now based in Prague. She was one of the first two dozen journalists Russia declared a “foreign agent.” She works on corruption and human rights abuses, reporting on the Pandora Papers, the torture and killing of a Ukrainian journalist in Russian prison, and Russian channels that profit from snuff videos from the war.
Valeria Ratnikova is the youngest anchor at TV Rain, which was Russia’s last remaining independent news station until it was forced to flee into exile. Declared an “undesirable organization” by Russia, TV Rain now operates from Amsterdam. Russia has sentenced her in absentia to 7.5 years in prison for talking about Russian war crimes in Ukraine and declared her an Extremist and Terrorist.
Ksenia Mironova is an exiled Russian journalist now based in New York. When she was 22, her home was searched and her partner, also a journalist, was arrested for “treason.” He remains in prison today. Ksenia’s work focuses on political prisoners, on Ukrainians who have suffered due to Russia’s invasion, and on the repression of human rights in Russia.
