Waiting for Color
| Waiting For Color | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kosta Karakashyan |
| Narrated by | Ksenia Voronkova, Venya Gushchin |
| Music by | Julien Leitner |
| Cinematography | Kevin Chiu |
| Backgrounds by | Andro Mathewson |
Production company | Studio Karakashyan |
Release date | August 27, 2018 |
Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500 |
Search Waiting for Color on Amazon.Waiting For Color[1] is a documentary-dance film that showcases the persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya affected in the April 2017 Chechen Autonomous regional government's anti-gay purge under the leadership of Ramzan Kadyrov. Waiting for Color was made in response to the international outcry over the abduction, torture and extrajudicial killings of hundreds of gay men in the Chechen Republic, a semi-autonomous region of the Russian Federation.[2] The film explores the paranoia, fear, trauma, brutality, arrests, blackmail and torture that LGBT people in Chechnya were subjected to by members of the regional government -- and even frequently their own family members.[3] Kosta Karakashyan, the film's producer, director and only actor on screen, dances against recordings of real testimonies from people in Chechnya who were tortured and beaten because of their sexuality.[4]
The film was independently produced by Kosta Karakashyan in New York City, and was released on Youtube on August 27, 2018.[5] It is also available on Facebook[6] and Vimeo[7]. It was released in collaboration with Single Step Foundation, a Bulgarian non-profit organization.[8]
Waiting for Color has received mainly positive reviews and been awarded numerous awards.[9]
Awards[edit]
- Prix Lumiere, Cinedanse Ottawa 2019
- Best Student Film, DanceScreen 2019
- Official Selection, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, 2019
- Official Selection, Flatpack Film Festival 2020
References[edit]
- ↑ Waiting for Color (2018) - IMDb, retrieved 2020-07-23
- ↑ Brammer, John Paul. "This Dance Documentary Shares Stories of Chechen LGBTQ+ Purge Survivors". them. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ↑ "Russia's Novaya Gazeta Publishes New Details Of Allegedly Missing, 'Executed' Chechens". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ↑ Winship, Lyndsey (2020-05-12). "Flatpack screendance festival review – dance that leaps through the screen". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ↑ "WAITING FOR COLOR: Chechnya LGBTQ+ Persecution Documentary Dance Film - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ↑ WAITING FOR COLOR, retrieved 2020-07-23
- ↑ Movers, ADF's Movies By (2020-07-19), WAITING FOR COLOR, retrieved 2020-07-23
- ↑ "NEW YORK – WAITING FOR COLOR is a documentary dance film about the Chechen region of Russia. – LGBT World Beside". Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ↑ "WAITING FOR COLOR". Kosta Karakashyan. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
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