Kseniia Khrabrykh, Russian documentary filmmaker and media artist, started her work on a new big project that needs your support! This is documentary film “I am 20 years old: our lesbian story”.
“I want to build a bridge between LGBT of the different generations and bring us back the part of our hidden and forgotten history”, – says the filmmaker.
Kseniia told us how the idea of the film was born:
“For almost 25 months we’ve been watching closely and filming for the largest Russian grassroots LGBT-organization “Coming Out”. We made social video and promo for LGBT events such as Queer Festival, street actions and daily life of the community. The archives comprise more than 100 hours of unique video material.
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and queer people in Russia live under constant threat of violence. The government does not protect sexual minorities. Stating equality is considered “homosexual propaganda”. LGBT-organizations supporting the community and advocating for LGBT rights are brought to courts and forced to be listed as “foreign agents”, e.i. “spies”.
The documentary film “I am 20 years old” contains three stories of Russian lesbians of different generations, including archives from three time periods – 1970s, 1990s, 2010s. This topic hasn’t previously attracted the attention of documentary filmmakers.
Three personal statements, three different stories, personal unique decision for each story. The realities of the main characters meet in the common space in September 2013 during the Queer Festival in Saint Petersburg –one of the largest LGBTQ events in Russia and probably illegal from now on because of the new legislation.”
The film is being made by the young team that has been working with LGBT issues and activism in the films for over 2 years with the support of LGBT-organization “Coming Out” and its volunteers.
“Straight Alliance for Equality of LGBT” – an informational partner of the project.
To provide financial support for the project please visit: http://igg.me/at/iam20
If you want to help – any contribution will be very important!
To collect private donations – is the only chance to make the film. The fines for “propaganda of homosexuality” in Russia increased to 100,000 as for the individual and to 1,000,000 as for the organization, which means that we won’t be able to find one big investor.
Kseniia Khrabrykh: “I believe that we are the community and that together we can stand for our rights. I’m convinced that we should continue to resist”.
Please support the project of our friends, even with the small amount of money. And please share the information with your friends through social networks. Let all the interested people get to know about it. Thank you!
The cinema can change minds, isn’t it?
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To follow the news of the project please visit the web page of social network “Vkontakte”: http://vk.com/iam20yearsold
To watch promo video of the movie please visit: http://vimeo.com/66635152
Автор: Straight Alliance for Equality of LGBT
