THE GUIDE - Fundraise for Ukraine Through Film

82 State Street,Newburyport MA 01950

03 April, 2022

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Learn about Ukrainian history through film. Fundraise for The Ukrainian Relief Fund with your ticket purchase. The Screening Room is proud to partner with standwithukrainethroughfilm.org to present The Guide – a story that takes place during the 1930s when millions in Ukraine were being starved to death by Stalin’s Soviet Union, and a history that has direct parallels with what’s going on today. Proceeds from all ticket sales to this screening will be donated to the Ukraine Relief Fund, a fund established in cooperation with Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America (HCROA). Oles Sanin, the film’s director who is currently still in Kyiv, has added a recorded introduction to the film. And Marshall Strauss, board president of HCROA will introduce this screening in person to talk about the Ukrainian Relief Fund. ... Throughout the ages, popular national culture was sustained in Ukraine by blind minstrels, or kobzars, who traveled from village to village with young guides, performing ancient folk songs and epic ballads. In The Guide, an American boy, Peter (Anton Sviatoslav Greene), and a blind musician, Ivan (Stanislav Boklan), are thrown together by fate amidst the 1930s "Terror Famine.” In mid-March, HCROA board president Marshall Strauss showed this film at Salem Cinema, just south of Newburyport. “Almost instantly,” he says, “the effort exploded in size and key industry leaders joined the project, donating their services. Now, cinemas across the country are agreeing to show this milestone movie. The director and I agreed on only one condition: ticket proceeds are to go to humanitarian relief for Ukraine.” Proceeds from the fundraiser will be forwarded to selected nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations already active in providing humanitarian assistance in Ukraine and nearby countries supporting Ukrainian refugees. Among them will be the International Red Cross and the International Organization for Migration. To make a direct contribution, click here: standwithukrainethroughfilm.org