Pussy Riot The Movement @ San Francisco Film Premiere

San Francisco premiere of Pussy Riot The Movement film Thursday, May 7th 7:30PM AMC Van Ness 14 1000 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94109 Reserve tickets here -- https://www.tugg.com/events/17887 Why is it critical to watch and to share this film? Because Russian activists and journalists are still under attack. Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader and harsh critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was murdered in Moscow on Friday, February 27, 2015, one day before he was to lead a protest against the policies of Putin. "Life has no meaning in Russia," said Natasha Fissiak, a Russian American director of a new film Pussy Riot - The Movement, which screened in Los Angeles, New York City and in Houston, Texas one day before Nemtsov was killed. The original idea for the film came from her visit to Moscow in July 2012, when she heard about members of a punk rock, feminist group called Pussy Riot who were on trial, then convicted of hooliganism and received a harsh two-year prison sentence. She also saw people were afraid. They did not want to discuss openly the case of Pussy Riot. Fissiak became aware of an alarming change in the country she knew during the early 1990s before she moved to the U.S., democratic reform had all but disappeared. Disturbed by what she saw, Fissiak and her partner in Golden World Films, LLC, Carole Keeney Harrington, assembled a filmmaking team and flew back to Moscow. It has now been three years since Pussy Riot burst upon the world stage. The NEW movie includes violent demonstrations, interviews with dissidents, lawyers, artists, and other women imprisoned on trumped up charges. It is now is ready for release. PUSSY RIOT - THE MOVEMENT covers the three-year journey of Nadia Tolokonnikova, Masha Alyokhina and Katia Samutsevich, from their early lives and the experiences that shaped them through 2014. Narrated by Daryl Hannah, the documentary begins with the arrest of the women on a dark street in Moscow and continues through the two-year imprisonment of Nadia and Masha, their "early" release and continued activism at the Sochi Olympics and throughout Russia and the world. PUSSY RIOT - THE MOVEMENT also examines the perversion of the Russian Constitution by ex-KGB officer and President Vladimir Putin and explores the entrenched nationalism of the Russian people. PUSSY RIOT - THE MOVEMENT is a powerful look at the totalitarian regime that is now "modern" Russia - a regime described by Russian writer, Masha Gessen, as "medieval." For more information visit out website at www.pussyriotthemovement.com