Navalny

Not to be missed!  See the film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2023. Learn about Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and political prisoner who stood up to Putin. Meet our stellar panel of guests.

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Winner, Best Documentary Feature, 2023 Academy Awards

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WATCH THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ August 4-14, watch the film Navalny on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE PANEL

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Christo Grozev (left) is the renowned Bulgarian investigative journalist and author who cracked the Navalny poisoning case. He is the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research, which includes focusing on security threats, extra-territorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. His investigations into the identity of the suspects involved in the prior, notorious 2018 poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal earned him and his team the European Press Prize for Investigative Journalism.

Karl von Habsburg (right) is an Austrian politician, journalist and the current head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He is the son of the late Otto von Habsburg and the grandson of the last Austrian Emperor, Charles I. The Navalny film was his initiative. He began his career as a military pilot, and in 1996 he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian People’s Party. He is also the president of the Austrian branch of the Paneuropean Union, which aims to unite all Europeans in a strong Europe. In 1940, his family was rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe by Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

Dr. Jud Newborn (moderator, left) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer, he has spoken throughout North America, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He received the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.

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