film

Welcome to Chechnya

Feature length film Completed 2020

Bertha Journalism

Director

David France

 

Doc Society helped with

Production

 

Runtime: 108 minutes

 

From acclaimed journalist and Oscar®-nominated director David France (How to Survive a Plague) comes this searing documentary about a group of brave activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ campaign in the Russian republic of Chechnya--which has led to the torture and disappearance of untold numbers of people.

2021 BAFTA Awards () - International 2021 Directors Guild of America, USA () - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary 2021 Emmy Awards () - Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking 2021 GLAAD Media Awards () - Outstanding Documentary 2021 International Documentary Association () - Best Feature 2021 Visual Effects Society Awards () - Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature 2020 Cinema for Peace Awards () - Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year 2021 Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US () - Outstanding Achievement in Editing in a Nonfiction Film or Series for Broadcast 2021 Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US () - Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Nonfiction Film or Series for Broadcast 2021 Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US () - The Unforgettables 2021 Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US () - Outstanding Achievement in Production 2021 Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US () - Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Nonfiction Filmmaking 2021 Indiana Film Journalists Association, US () - Best Documentary 2021 GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics () - Documentary of the Year 2021 GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics () - LGBTQ Documentary of the Year 2020 International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) () - Best Documentary Film 2021 Gold Derby Awards () - Documentary Feature 2020 Millennium Docs Against Gravity () - Amnesty International Award 2020 Millennium Docs Against Gravity () - Bydgoszcz ART.DOC Award - Special Mention 2022 Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg () - Lieblingsfilme des Publikums 2021 Hollywood Professional Association Awards () - Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation 2021 Hollywood Critics Association Television Awards () - Best Broadcast Network or Cable Docuseries, Documentary Television Movie, or Non-Fiction Series Berlin International Film Festival 2020 • Amnesty International Film Prize Berlin International Film Festival 2020 • Activist Award Miami Film Festival 2020 • Best Documentary Sundance 2020 • Documentary Sundance 2020 • Documentary Film Editing Award São Paulo International Film Festival 2020 • Best Foreign Documentary Bergen International Film Festival 2020 • Checkpoints Award Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2020 • Top 20 Audience Favorites Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2020 • Special Presentations Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2020 • International Competition - FIPRESCI Prize Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2020 • Mermaid Award Durban International Film Festival 2020 • Best Documentary Seville European Film Festival 2020 • Best Documentary One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2020 • Right to Know Competition Berlin International Film Festival 2020 • Best Documentary Film Berlin International Film Festival 2020 • Documentary Film Panorama Audience Award Free Zone Film Festival 2020 • International Competition One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2020 • Human Rights Competition Americana Film Fest 2021 • Audience Award Americana Film Fest 2021 • Best Film Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2020 • International Competition Golden Alexander

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David France

Director

Director/Producer David France is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about AIDS since 1982. Today he is one of the best-known chroniclers of the epidemic, as contributing editor at New York magazine. Mr. France has seen his work inspire several films, most recently the Emmy-nominated Showtime film “Our Fathers,” based on his book by the same name.

How to Survive a Plague is his first documentary. He is writing a major history of AIDS activism, due in 2013 from Alfred A. Knopf.