Don’t miss the award winning 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER directed by Chad Gracia Opening in Theaters in Los Angeles – October 30 Exclusively at the LAEMMLE MUSIC HALL
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATES
NYC OCT 16th- AMC Empire
LOS ANGELES OCT 30th- Laemmle Music Hall
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER is told through the perspective of Fedor Alexandrovich, who was four years old in 1986, when he was exposed to the toxic effects of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown and forced to leave his home. Now 33, he is an artist in Ukraine, with radioactive strontium in his bones and a singular obsession with this earth-changing catastrophe. His investigation begins with a question: What really happened? Was there more to the story than the Soviet government let on? And, most importantly, what is the enormous steel structure now rotting away a few miles from the disaster site: a towering Cold War weapon nicknamed “the Russian Woodpecker” for the clicking sound it emitted, interrupting radio frequencies around the world?
AWARDS
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2015
WINNER- GRAND JURY PRIZE- World Cinema- Documentary
BIOGRAFILM FESTIVAL 2015
WINNER- HERA AWARD- Best Debut Film
WINNER- LIFE TALES AWARD- International Competition
DOCAVIV FILM FESTIVAL 2015
NOMINEE- Best International Film
MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL INT’L FILM FESTIVAL 2015
WINNER-Special Jury Prize- Documentary Competition
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL 2015
WINNER- Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature
SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2015
NOMINEE- Grandy Jury Award








