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How Welcome to Chechnya Became the First Doc Ever Shortlisted for the Visual Effects Oscar

How ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Became the First Doc Ever Shortlisted for the Visual Effects Oscar Visual effects supervisor Ryan Laney talks about using “human shields” to protect 23 LGBT subjects via VFX: “On a normal effects project, the goal is to fool the audience. That wasn’t ours.”Joe McGovern | February 23, 2021 @ 3:37 PM Welcome to Chechnya VFX (HBO) The first documentary ever shortlisted for Best Visual Effects, “Welcome to Chechnya” beings with a disclaimer acknowledging its use of movie magic: “For their safety, people fleeing for their lives have been digitally disguised.” The film by director David France (2012’s Oscar nominee “How to Survive a Plague”) is a chronicle of the violence against the LGBT population in the Russian republic of Chechnya. Because being exposed as gay is punishable by torture or death, 23 individuals seen in the film had their faces masked in post-production with the faces of volunteers.

What s New on DVD in January: The Swimmer, Martin Eden, Welcome to Chechnya, and More

“Born to Be” (Kino Lorber), viewers are taken inside America’s first hospital center devoted to transgender medical care. Warhol superstar and trans pioneer Candy Darling’s life and career is celebrated in “Beautiful Darling” (Corinth Films); two women face trial to determine whether they were the “Assassins” (Greenwich/Kino Lorber) of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother in this riveting true-life tale; one-half of TV’s “Property Brothers” explores the future of energy in “Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales” (Metrograph/Kino Lorber) also includes restorations of eight of Ruspoli’s nature-doc shorts. New Grindhouse “The Craft: Legacy” (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) proves that sequels (or rebootquels or legacyquels) can be worthwhile in the hands of creative filmmakers. Writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones (“Band Aid,” the upcoming “How It Ends”) clearly loves and reveres the original cult classic without needing the feel to repeat the beats,

Welcome to Chechnya Director on Doc s Impact: It s Engendering a Real Wave of Empathy for LGBTQ Russians

Michael Loccisano/Getty Images ; Courtesy of HBO Activist Maxim Lapunov reunites with his partner after fleeing Chechnya. Lapunov was detained for 12 days by police, during which time he alleges he was beaten, tortured and raped. Oscar nominee David France s startling depiction of the courageous effort to save Chechnya s queer community from state-sanctioned persecution was denounced by the government and went viral: People were going wild. In early 2017, reports began to emerge out of Chechnya that authorities were detaining gay men and subjecting them to torture and humiliation. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov immediately repudiated the claims (he maintains that there are no LGBTQ individuals in Chechnya), but the documentary evidence of abuse is impossible to deny.

Welcome to Chechnya Menguak Tabir Tindakan Anti-LGBT yang Disetujui oleh Negara

Welcome to Chechnya Menguak Tabir Tindakan Anti-LGBT yang Disetujui oleh Negara
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