{"id":13822,"date":"2019-12-13T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/welcome-chechnya-set-bow-hbo\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:02:48","slug":"welcome-to-chechnya-set-to-bow-on-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/welcome-to-chechnya-set-to-bow-on-hbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Chechnya Set to Bow on HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBO Documentary Films has acquired North American television and streaming rights for the documentary <em>Welcome to Chechnya<\/em>, from Academy Award-nominated director David France, ahead of its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>This documentary shadows a group of brave activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ persecution in the repressive and closed Russian republic of Chechnya. With unfettered access and a commitment to protecting anonymity, this documentary exposes these underreported atrocities, while highlighting an extraordinary group of heroic people confronting crushing brutality. It will debut in June 2020 on HBO.<\/p>\n<p>In Chechnya, gay and transgender citizens are targeted as part of a deadly \u201ccleansing\u201d campaign. This revealing film chronicles a group of LGBTQ activists as they work undercover and at great personal danger to rescue the victims of this aggression. Through a succession of safe houses and a global underground network of collaborators, the LGBTQ advocates provide victims temporary safety and urgent visa assistance, because fleeing Russia is their only chance for survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to have partnered with HBO to help shed light on this ongoing humanitarian crisis,\u201d said France. \u201c<em>Welcome to Chechnya<\/em> needed a distributor that is fearless and believes in the power of social justice filmmaking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO Documentary Films has acquired North American television and streaming rights for the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, from Academy Award-nominated director David France, ahead of its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":13823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[264,4514],"class_list":["post-13822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-hbo-documentary-films","tag-welcome-to-chechnya","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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