Pussy Riot documentary wins Sundance Festival special award January 27, 2013 - 17:11 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The documentary, Pussy Riot: a Punk Prayer, directed by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, won a special award at the U.S. Sundance Film Festival, RIA Novosti reported citing the festival’s website. The film chronicles an act of protest by the Russian feminist punk-rock band, their outspoken defiance of Russian President Vladimir Putin, their trial and imprisonment. The band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich were sentenced to two years in prison over a punk prayer at Moscow's largest cathedral in February 2012 that urged "Mother Mary" to "drive Putin out." The court ruled that the performance hurt the feelings of Orthodox believers, but the group said the "punk prayer" was a political act and was a response to Orthodox Church support for Putin ahead of his last year’s March 4 presidential election victory. “British filmmaker Mike Lerner and Russian Maxim Pozdorovkin collaborate to chronicle the way one small act of protest captured a nation’s attention and grew to become an international story of human-rights abuse,” the festival’s website said.   Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”.   Partner news |  Latest news Aliyev travels to Turkey at Erdogan's invitation  On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit.CSTO budget “to be adjusted due to Yerevan’s non-payment of contributions” The CSTO budget for the current year requires adjustments due to the refusal of Yerevan to pay their share of contributions.Russia sends note of protest to Armenia over envoy’s trip to Ukraine’s Bucha Russia has sent a note of protest to Armenia over the visit of Vladimir Karapetyan and Tigran Ter-Margaryan to Bucha.Armenia: Protesters march to parliament, some spend the night on street The protesters did not disperse despite heavy rain that began at around 2 a.m. local time. |
