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How ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Became the First Doc Ever Shortlisted for the Visual Effects Oscar Visual effects supervisor Ryan Laney talks about using “human shields” to protect 23 LGBT subjects via VFX: “On a normal effects project, the goal is to fool the audience. That wasn’t ours.”Joe McGovern | February 23, 2021 @ 3:37 PM Welcome to Chechnya VFX (HBO) The first documentary ever shortlisted for Best Visual Effects, “Welcome to Chechnya” beings with a disclaimer acknowledging its use of movie magic: “For their safety, people fleeing for their lives have been digitally...

“Born to Be” (Kino Lorber), viewers are taken inside America’s first hospital center devoted to transgender medical care. Warhol superstar and trans pioneer Candy Darling’s life and career is celebrated in “Beautiful Darling” (Corinth Films); two women face trial to determine whether they were the “Assassins” (Greenwich/Kino Lorber) of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother in this riveting true-life tale; one-half of TV’s “Property Brothers” explores the future of energy in “Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales” (Metrograph/Kino Lorber) also includes restorations of eight o...

Michael Loccisano/Getty Images ; Courtesy of HBO Activist Maxim Lapunov reunites with his partner after fleeing Chechnya. Lapunov was detained for 12 days by police, during which time he alleges he was beaten, tortured and raped. Oscar nominee David France's startling depiction of the courageous effort to save Chechnya's queer community from state-sanctioned persecution was denounced by the government and went viral: "People were going wild." In early 2017, reports began to emerge out of Chechnya that authorities were detaining gay men and subjecting them to torture and humiliation. Chechen ...