Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer gets DVD release
The UK DVD release of PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER was announced by Independent Distribution and will be available from 25th November.
PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER features the three band members who were put on trial in Russia, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich for performing a satirical rock song in Russia's most hallowed Moscow cathedral. The DVD was directed and produced by Oscar-nominated producer and documentary maker Mike Lerner (Afghan Star, Hell and Back Again) and Director-Producer Maxim Pozdorovkin (Capital).
The film tells the story of three young women: Nadia, Masha and Katia and was filmed over six months; members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot who performed a 40 second "punk prayer" inside Russia's main cathedral. This performance led to their arrest on charges of religious hatred and culminated in a trial that has reverberated around the world and transformed the face of Russian society forever.
PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER featured as the opening night film at Sheffield Doc Fest, at the East End Film Festival in London and Open City Doc Fest and received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.