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Sundance 2013: Watch Pussy Riot's Katya Skype Into the Premiere of 'Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer' (Video)
Pussy Riot's Katya Skypes into the Prospecter Theater in Park City Friday night.
Remarkable in its timeliness, Lerner and Pozdorovkin's film is an extensive and thoughtful look at Pussy Riot's arrest and subsequent trial made less than six months after the trio were sentenced to two years in prison last July, prompting outcries of support from around the world. If you think you already know this story, Lerner and Pozdorovkin's doc proves that there is a lot more to it.
While Maria Alyokhina (aka Masha) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Nadya) remained in prison as the screening took place, Yekaterina Samutsevich (aka Katya) was released on probation last October following an argument from her lawyer that she had been stopped by cathedral guards before she could get her guitar out of its case. The crowd in the theater erupted in riotous cheers as she joined them via Skype.
"We did know there was some sort of global awareness going on," Katya said through a translation from "Pussy Riot" co-director Pozdorovkin at the Q&A. "And then as it got bigger and bigger -- with Madonna's performance and all these other things -- we felt there was more support coming our way. Though we were fairly isolated in the jail..."
Watch video from the Q&A below:
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Alla | January 19, 2013 3:40 PM
pathetic- it is always better to look overseas at something you don't really understand and tweet about your iOutrage right? More neo-liberal soft propaganda trying to force an 'arab spring' in Russia. These fools would have been arrested in the US just as well- imagine them doing this in a synagogue and dancing on the Torah Ark. That would be OK right?