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November 14, 2009

THE LIVING at Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival


The Living, feature documentary by Serhiy Bukovsky made in 2008 to mark the 75th Anniversary of the genocidal Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, a.k.a. the Holodomor, was shown at the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival held at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. The festival bills itself as “the longest-running, premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States, encompassing a broad spectrum of work, from indigenous community media to experimental nonfiction. The Festival is distinguished by its outstanding selection of titles, which tackle diverse and challenging subjects, representing a range of issues and perspectives, and by the forums for discussion with filmmakers and speakers.” The screening of the film was co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages of Columbia University and the Ukrainian Museum in New York City. It followed the British premier of the film held at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University was instrumental in facilitating that screening and organizing a copy of the film for it. The following day about a hundred and sixty media outlets around the world, including Reuters, the Washington Post, the Manchester Guardian, carried the story of the Holodomor and the reporter Gareth Jones, the main protagonist of Bukovsky’s documentary.


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