Mr. Jones will be Blasted at the Russians

Gaslit Nation

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tonight! August 6 at 7:30pm ET you can watch live as the film Mr. Jones, written and produced by Gaslit Nation's very own Andrea Chalupa, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, will be blasted at the Russian Embassy Press Office (a.k.a. the Russian Propaganda Office) in Washington, DC, at 1706 18th Street NW. Anyone anywhere in the world can watch the event -- it will be recorded and livestreamed. Here is the YouTube link where you can watch live or at a later time.

The screening will open with a Q&A with three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland -- the director of Mr. Jones, and Andrea. The discussion will continue with Olga Lautman of the Kremlin Files prodcast who will join to talk about Russia's ongoing genocide in Ukraine.

Last fall, a Putin mob and authorities shut down a screening of Mr. Jones in Moscow and shortly after banned the renowned human rights organization, Memorial, that dared to show it. The Guardian reported on it here. Memorial faced years of repression for fighting for historical truths. So we're blasting the film at the Russians using a powerful projector.

This is going to be an interesting evening you don't want to miss!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Tonight is the night. We are having a special screening of Mr. Jones, the film I wrote and
0:07.7	produced inspired by my grandfather who was born and raised in Donbass, Ukraine, the region
0:12.7	in the east that's been under invasion occupation by Russia since 2014, since it was our first
0:18.8	broke out in reaction to Ukraine's popular uprising that drove out the very Trumpian
0:25.3	crumlin puppet Yanukovych. That's a lot of information right there, but to get back
0:29.7	story and everything I just said, watch Mr. Jones and watch the wonderful Netflix documentary
0:35.4	Winter on Fire. Those are both two must watch films. And for now, tonight, Saturday, August
0:42.0	6, starting at 7.30 p.m. Eastern time, we're going to have a watch party of Mr. Jones blasted
0:49.9	at the Russians. It's going to be on livestream for anybody anywhere in the world to watch
0:55.1	it. Look for that YouTube link where you could find the live stream either watch it live
1:00.2	or watch it some other time whenever you have time. It's going to be an interesting evening
1:04.8	that the if you're in Washington, DC, then go to the Russian Embassy press office. It is
1:11.8	officially called the Russian Embassy press office, but that's just another way of saying
1:15.5	the Russian propaganda office. You can find that location at 1706 18th Street, Northwest
1:21.8	and Washington, DC. I'm going to be joined tonight by Agneshka Holland, the three time Academy
1:28.4	award nominee who's given us wonderful films like The Original, The Secret Garden, Europa
1:33.3	Europa, and so many other gorgeous films as she moved mountains to make sure that we can
1:39.5	make Mr. Jones that story is very personal to Agneshka. As she grew up in Soviet occupied
1:44.4	Poland, her parents were both journalists, her father's official cause of death was interrogation
1:50.3	while under, sorry, suicidal under police interrogation. So she had a lot to say with Mr.
1:56.6	Jones as much as I did. And she showed a lot of urgency and making sure that the film got
2:00.6	made and released. We are going to be speaking with Benjamin Wittis who is organizing this
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gaslit Nation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gaslit Nation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.