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Christopher Vourlias Rock Films, the production house founded by veteran Russian director Alexey Uchitel, has shared the first teaser for its forthcoming Syrian war drama “Palmyra” with Variety. The company is presenting the film this week during the Key Buyers Event.“Palmyra” follows a Syrian Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team targeted by ISIS militants, while they prepare the recently liberated historic site of Palmyra to hold a symbolic concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra.

Christopher Vourlias Leading Russian animation company Riki Group has closed a content package deal with the U.S. on-demand kids entertainment service Toon Goggles.

Christopher Vourlias Seventeen Russian projects and nine international projects from eight countries have been selected to take part in WEMW Goes to Russia, a new international co-production forum organized by Russian state film promotion body Roskino and When East Meets West, the Trieste Film Festival’s co-production platform.The projects will be presented to potential co-production partners during the Key Buyers Event, which will take place online from June 8-10, with three additional days of

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorUnspooling from June 8-15, the Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition will feature a slew of drama projects worth looking out for, from psychological thrillers to biopics and new takes on modern relationships.“Insomnia” (1-2-3 Production) 2022Producers: Valeriy Fedorovich, Evgeniy NikishovSynopsis: Yuri is a successful psychiatrist and hypnotist, a committed non-believer, capable of rationalizing anything except for his own nightmares: featuring his late

New York Times, Hanks said he and many others were never told about the massacre in school, with American History classes instead devoted to topics like how Britain’s Stamp Act helped lead to the Boston Tea Party.“For all my study, I never read a page of any school history book about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black citizens and displaced thousands of Black Americans who lived in Tulsa,” he wrote.“My experience

New York Times op-ed urging Americans to study the Tulsa Race Massacre, which they very likely didn’t learn about in school.

Tom Hanks wants all Americans to be educated on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre on Tuesday by warning of a “thruline” of systemic racism “that exists today” including the threat of white supremacists and an assault on voting rights.

Joe Biden is calling on all Americans to reflect on the 100th anniversary of the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre.

President Joe Biden declared a Day of Remembrance on Monday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race massacre, an event that left as many Black Americans killed and nearly 10,000 homeless.

Editor’s note: A hundred years ago today, after an attempt to lynch a Black teenager accused of raping a white woman was stymied, a rabid white mob numbering in the thousands descended on the affluent and predominantly African-American Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over two days, more than 300 women, children and men were murdered by the mob.

th commemorative year,” the Commission said.However, it is possible that there are other factors are at play besides “unexpected circumstances” with the event’s celebrity participants.

Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett to produce a limited scripted series about the 1921 tragedy. The untitled drama will be written by playwright Nathan Alan Davis and depict events surrounding the two days when white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, attacked and destroyed the prosperous Greenwood District, which was known as Black Wall Street at the time, and left hundreds of Black Americans dead and thousands homeless or displaced.

. Meanwhile, the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 led to the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and ignited a conversation about the connection between these two incidents. “One of the things we have to understand is that this history was purposefully erased.