My Perestroika to air on PBS June 28

Griesenbeck, Donna griesenb at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Thu Jun 30 19:44:23 UTC 2011


The filmmaker, Robin Hessman, would like to let SEELANGers know that the TV version is 7 minutes shorter than the cinema version.  I missed the TV broadcast but would highly recommend the cinematic experience to all!
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Donna Griesenbeck
Student Programs Officer
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies
griesenb at fas.harvard.edu
617-495-1194

CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge Street, Room S334

www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu



On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:55 PM, WADE,Richard wrote:

> This film looks so interesting, especially for we generation Xers who became interested in the region/language just as the USSR started falling apart.
> Alas here in Australia we can't watch the video online at the PBS site ("not available in your region due to rights restrictions").
> Let's hope it turns up in the local arthouse cinema (Dendy).
> I will start lobbying them today.
> 
> Richard Wade
> Canberra
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Krystyna Steiger
> Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2011 5:50 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] My Perestroika to air on PBS June 28
> 
> According to the listings, Mountain Lake (Plattsburgh, NY) is airing it 
> tonite, then also July 2-3.
> Best to all,
> Krystyna
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Moss, Kevin M." <moss at MIDDLEBURY.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] My Perestroika to air on PBS June 28
> 
> 
>> Check your local PBS website or an online TV guide.
>> In VT it's showing at 3:00 a m tomorrow morning, then repeated Friday at 
>> 10 pm. The schedule varies with each station, apparently.
>> KM
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 29, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Mark Yoffe wrote:
>> 
>>> Strangely there was no My Perestroika aired last night on PBS, though
>>> POV web site did say it will be aired on 28th...
>>> Does anyone know what happened?
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Andrea Lanoux <alano at conncoll.edu> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>> 
>>>> I recently learned that the film My Perestroika (dir. Robin Hessman, 
>>>> 2010)
>>>> is scheduled to air on PBS on June 28. For those who haven't seen it, 
>>>> it's a
>>>> great documentary about a group of Russian school friends who came of 
>>>> age in
>>>> the early 1990s, and it contains some amazing documentary footage and
>>>> excerpts from home movies. I showed it to students in my freshman 
>>>> seminar
>>>> this past fall and they loved it -- Robin Hessman came to the class to 
>>>> talk
>>>> about the film, and her stories of going to film school in Russia and 
>>>> living
>>>> there in the 1990s made it one of the best and most popular events of 
>>>> the
>>>> semester.
>>>> 
>>>> You can read more about the film at http://myperestroika.com/dvd/, or at
>>>> http://www.pbs.org/pov/myperestroika/. If you wish to contact Robin 
>>>> directly
>>>> with questions, she can be reached at info at myperestroika.com.
>>>> 
>>>> Warm regards,
>>>> Andrea Lanoux
>>>> 
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