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Welcome to Chechnya: View the film prior to the March 24 panel.
The Humanities, Arts, and Public Health Practice at Yale Initiative (HAPPY Initiative) and the Yale School of Public Health in conjunction with Yale Schwarzman Center invite you to a free film screening of Welcome to Chechnya.
In collaboration with award-winning executive producer Neal Baer, Welcome to Chechnya is a powerful David France documentary about the anti- gay purges in the late 2010s as LGBT refugees, wearing hidden cameras, made their way out of Russia through a network of safehouses and the activists who risked their lives to aid them. It won a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2020, and is on the Oscar Awards short list for Best Documentary and Best Visual Effects.
The film will be available upon registration at the convenience of the audience, March 17-24, 2021. The final individual viewing will be available no later than a 5:30 p.m. start on Wednesday, March 24. Registration via Eventbrite is required and limited. Registration opens 5:00pm on March 5.
Please join us for the live panel discussion on Wednesday, March 24 at 7:30pm EDT.
Meet the panelists
Neal Baer, MD, MA, MEd, BA
Lecturer
Lyosha Gorschkov, PhD
Co-President
RUSA LGBTQI (Russian-Speaking American LGBTQI) Association and Founder of Brighton Beach Pride
John Pachankis, PhD
Susan Dwight Bliss Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Deirdre, Stradone, Esq.
Co-Deputy Director
Sanctuary for Families' Immigration Intervention Project (NYC)
Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD
Dean and Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
Contact
Karen Deary, MA
karen.deary@yale.edu
Tel 203 738 9917
Host
Judith Lichtman, PhD, MPH
judith.lichtman@yale.edu
Tel 203 785 3025