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| Gus van Sant to attend threatened Russian LGBT film festival | Gus van Sant to attend threatened Russian LGBT film festival |
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| Milk director Gus van Sant is to travel to St Petersburg to attend the LGBT-themed Bok o Bok (Side by Side) film festival which only recently escaped shutdown after being targeted by Russia's anti-gay campaigners. | Milk director Gus van Sant is to travel to St Petersburg to attend the LGBT-themed Bok o Bok (Side by Side) film festival which only recently escaped shutdown after being targeted by Russia's anti-gay campaigners. |
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| The veteran director is due to attend a screening on 30 November of Milk, the biopic of the gay San Francisco political official who was murdered in 1978. The film's producer Bruce Cohen and Oscar winning scriptwriter Dustin Lance Black will also be present and take part in a discussion after the film. | The veteran director is due to attend a screening on 30 November of Milk, the biopic of the gay San Francisco political official who was murdered in 1978. The film's producer Bruce Cohen and Oscar winning scriptwriter Dustin Lance Black will also be present and take part in a discussion after the film. |
| In a statement the team behind Milk said: "Our hope in screening the 2009 Academy Award winning film Milk - about the late civil rights leader, Harvey Milk - is to encourage respectful conversations that might create deeper understanding. Cinema has that power. For this reason, we would like to bring our film to your country and participate in the meaningful dialogue we feel certain this screening will create between the people of our great nations." | In a statement the team behind Milk said: "Our hope in screening the 2009 Academy Award winning film Milk - about the late civil rights leader, Harvey Milk - is to encourage respectful conversations that might create deeper understanding. Cinema has that power. For this reason, we would like to bring our film to your country and participate in the meaningful dialogue we feel certain this screening will create between the people of our great nations." |
| The Bok o Bok festival won an appeal last month against a 400,000 rubles (almost £8,000) fine imposed on it after being named a "foreign agent" (ie, in receipt of funding from overseas) by authorities. | The Bok o Bok festival won an appeal last month against a 400,000 rubles (almost £8,000) fine imposed on it after being named a "foreign agent" (ie, in receipt of funding from overseas) by authorities. |
| In an attempt to ensure it avoids prosecution under Russia's stringent laws banning "gay propaganda" to minors, the festival has stressed that all events "are restricted to persons 18+". | In an attempt to ensure it avoids prosecution under Russia's stringent laws banning "gay propaganda" to minors, the festival has stressed that all events "are restricted to persons 18+". |
| • Russian LGBT film festival wins appeal against 'foreign agent' ruling • Ukraine film festival targeted by anti-LGBT protesters | • Russian LGBT film festival wins appeal against 'foreign agent' ruling • Ukraine film festival targeted by anti-LGBT protesters |
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