Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer + ScreenTalk - East End Film Festival

Date: Thu 4 July 2013

This is the story of both a band and a message, of a court case and in effect the trial of the entire Russian nation. The film innovatively intercuts a variety of YouTube, smart phone and other new media footage that is the stock and trade of the world’s new resistance movements. 

A collaboration between British filmmaker Mike Lerner and the Russian Maxim Podzorovkin that follows a timeline from Pussy Riot’s now infamous cathedral-based musical protest to their show trial and imprisonment. The film is a tense and involving tale of political action, punk spirit and human-rights abuse.

The screening will be followed by a ScreenTalk in partnership with Amnesty International including director Mike Lerner, an Amnesty expert on the Pussy Riot case and campaign, and other commentators. 

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