A RISING FURY screening, discussion and book signing with Prof Timothy Snyder
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Join us for a very special evening. On Wed Nov 1st @6:30 pm we are pleased to have Professor Timothy Snyder attend a film screening of the critically acclaimed documentary "A RISING FURY" and participate in a Q&A with the director of A Rising Fury Lesya Kalynska. After the Q&A Prof Snyder will have a book signing at the theater. The sponsor and host of the evening is the UNWLA - Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Inc. It all takes place at Cinema Village movie theater in NYC (East Village). For tickets and information click here:
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https://arisingfury.com/
We look forward to seeing you there!
TJ Collins
NYFG Co-Founder/ Organizer
About the film: “A Rising Fury” is a feature documentary film that followed several protesters for 10 years from the Revolution of Dignity (Kyiv) in 2013 to the war in Eastern Ukraine and ultimately to the full-scale invasion in 2022. It’s a story about love, revolution and betrayal that required multiple expeditions to the front lines of the war and told through intimate verité material. This film reveals the untold story of how the Russo-Ukrainian war happened nearly 10 years ago and explains how we arrived at this point in history through events and personal stories on the ground.
“A Rising Fury” premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film festival and is the winner of three top awards at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival including the Supreme Jury Award. FILM THREAT gives it 5 stars and says it’s “A masterclass of documentary filmmaking… absolutely brilliant on every level. One of the best films of the year.” FILM INK gives it 4.5 stars and says it’s a “Wake up call… a powerful statement as to what the Ukrainians are fighting for. Filmmaker Magazine says it’s “A breathtakingly cinematic explainer of current events.”
About Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is the author of a dozen books, including the bestsellers On Tyranny, Our Malady, The Road to Unfreedom, Black Earth, and Bloodlands. His work has been translated into forty languages and received a number of prizes, including the literature award of the American Academy of Art and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding.
About Lesya Kalynska
Lesya Kalynska is an award-winning film director, screenwriter and producer. She develops film projects through her production company Pomegranate Studios in New York. Originally from Kyiv, Kalynska earned her MFA in directing and writing from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received her Ph.D. in Slavic Literatures and Languages in Ukraine. She found early success in the U.S. with her award-winning short narrative film The Balloonist and produced The Debt directed by Levan Koguashvili, which was an official selection at the Sundance and Tribeca film festivals. Kalynska wrote, directed, and produced the feature documentary A Rising Fury about the Russo- Ukrainian war that was filmed for nearly 10 years.
The World Premiere took place at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. It won several awards including the Supreme Jury Award and the Best Director Award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
The film was nominated best documentary at 9 film festivals and is critically acclaimed with Film Threat Magazine giving the film 10/10 saying "A Rising Fury is one of the best films of the year".