ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
This searing documentary chronicles the anti-gay pogrom raging in the repressive Russian republic of Chechnya and shadows the LGBTQ activists risking unimaginable peril to rescue victims from a targeted campaign of torture and death.

SYNOPSIS
David France, the award-winning writer and Academy award®-nominated director of How to Survive a Plague brings us WELCOME TO CHECHNYA. This searing documentary shadows a group of brave activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ campaign in the repressive and closed Russian republic of Chechnya.

With unfettered access and a commitment to protecting anonymity, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA exposes these underreported atrocities, while highlighting an extraordinary group of heroic people confronting deadly brutality.

PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature

DIRECTOR David France
SCREENWRITER David France, Tyler H. Walk
PRODUCER Alice Henty, Askold Kurov, David France, Joy A. Tomchin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Joy A. Tomchin, Neal Baer, Kevin Jennings, Masha Gessen, Jonathan Logan, Jess Search, Lekha Singh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alan Getz, Justin Mikita, Stan Tomchin
CO-PRODUCER Igor Myakotin, Tyler H. Walk
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Katya Kumkova
IMPACT PRODUCER Alison Byrne-Fields

WEBSITE welcometochechnya.com