About This Campaign
This website is dedicated to an infamous and bitter event that took place in New York in April 2018: Tribeca Film Festival supported Russian terrorism by giving Phone Duty, a Russian movie, the Best Narrative Short award.
Phone Duty tells a story from the perspective of Russian terrorists located in Donbas, a Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia. The starring actor, Zakhar Prilepin, is a terrorist himself. He is an infamous Russian writer well known for his imperialistic and xenophobic views.
Prilepin is a terrorist who moved to Donbas and fights against Ukrainian Army. He claims openly that the ultimate goal of Russians in Donbas is to advance and occupy the entire Ukraine.
After we've found what happened, we've started a petition campaign. We demand from Tribeca Film Festival to:
- Denounce Phone Duty as the winner of the Best Narrative Short award.
- Remove the phrase "Donbass rebel fighter" from the movie synopsis on the Festival's website.
- Publicly apologize for hurting the feelings of all Ukrainians, who've lost their loved ones as a result of Russia's military intervention into Ukraine.
There's a well-known problem with online petitions: people tend to forget about them as soon as the initial enthusiasm goes down. However, we cannot let it happen: Russia keeps killing our friends and relatives, and we Ukrainians have no other choice but react to each and every case of support for Russian terrorism around the world.
On this site, we'll be informing you about the above campaign. Stay with us!
And, please, SIGN our petition if you haven't done it yet, and SHARE it with your friends.
There must be NO SUPPORT FOR RUSSIAN TERRORISM on American soil!
Ukrainian Standpoint
