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F@ck This Job, a groundbreaking documentary from director Vera Krichevskay, provides audiences with an unprecedented look inside Putin’s Russia where press freedom has all but ended.
Set for release in the UK on February 24, F@ck This Job gives us unique insight into recent Russian history and Putin’s war on journalism and has been described as “funny, terrifying, heartbreaking and galvanising”.
“I wanted to make a fairytale documentary. A film about a real fighter for justice, an activist born from a glamorous socialite scene and a group of very young journalists who become essential to freedom of the press,” says director Krichevskaya of her subject, Natasha Sindeyeva, the founded and CEO of Dozhd TV.
Also known as TV Rain, the channel us unique as an independent news outlet inside Russia. Sindeyeva decided to launch an independent TV station in Putin’s Russia in 2008. She developed her channel around young open-minded, untainted reporters without a track record in government-run media.
Soon Dozhd TV’s office becomes a magnet for new, unconventional media professionals, many of whom are part of Russia’s LGBTQ community. Coincidentally, the Russian Parliament has just passed its “anti-gay” law. From the beginning, a very bumpy road is laid out for Dozhd TV and it quickly becomes the lone island of political and sexual freedom in Putin’s Russia.
“My hope was for a free Russia before our hopes for freedom in Russia collapsed. But after all, it’s not a fairytale. It’s a very honest, sad and sometimes funny documentary story with an unknown end,” says Krichevskaya. F@ck This Job is an unprecedented look at censorship and the dramatic changing media landscape inside Russia over the last decade.
Dozhd TV is the only independent TV news station that has survived Putin’s rule. When Sindeyeva started the news outlet little did she known she would become the face of the frontline in a war between truth and propaganda. Ultimately it led to her becoming accused of being a “foreign agent” in her own country.
The first ban of the TV station happened one week after the launch. Putin’s second ban cuts the channel from the cable providers and kicks Dozhd TV off the satellite packages. Dozhd TV is evicted from its spacious office and broadcasts from Natasha’s one-bedroom apartment in a hidden place in Moscow’s city centre.
A rude awakening, Natasha and the TV station were forced to face the reality of Russia’s regime, its politics, and its life. However, every attack on Dozhd TV strengthened its cult-like atmosphere. The reporters and staff felt it was their duty to inform the public of all the systemic injustice. It was no longer just their job; it became their mission to relay the truth to the people by any means necessary.
F THIS JOB is in UK cinemas from February 24.
https://www.fckthisjob.net/
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