Dear moviegoers, fans of documentary film! Dear organizers of festivals in Russia!
We’ve decided that films created by students and our graduates will not participate in Russian festivals that require distribution certificate for films made without government support, at own resources by young directors.
Probably our legislators don't know that festivals, cinema clubs, meetings with the moviegoers at schools, universities and any other non-commercial places aren't related to rental. So, we have to tell them about it.
Probably the Minister of Culture also doesn’t’ know it. We need to tell him about it too.
Probably none of them know that total control over artists is called censorship. And censorship in our country is forbidden by the Constitution (Article 29). We should also exlpain it to them.
It's a pity for me that Russian festivals instead of coming together and expressing their attitude to ridiculous unconstitutional laws are searching for loopholes and asking whether it's necessary to bring the rope or not.
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