EPIX Original Documentary To Russia with Love Explores LGBT Human Rights Journey as Seen Through Athletes’ Experience -- Pr...
September 16 2014 - 12:57PM
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Featuring Johnny Weir, Billie Jean King,
Greg Louganis, Jason Collins and Olympic Gold Medalist Mark
Tewksbury
Golden Globe & Emmy Award Winner Jane
Lynch Narrates
Premium entertainment network EPIX announced today that
Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch (“Glee”) will lend
her voice to the EPIX Original Documentary, To Russia With
Love, that will make its World Premiere Wednesday,
October 29 at 8PM ET. To Russia with Love explores human
rights through the lens of LGBT athletes, with iconoclastic athlete
and commentator Johnny Weir serving as the viewers’ guide
into this world. The 90 minute film examines the experiences of
Olympic legends Billie Jean King and Greg Louganis as
well as the next generation of LGBT athletes who participated in
the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Shooting worldwide in
locations as diverse as Sochi, New York City, Calgary, Toronto, St.
Petersburg and Moscow, the film follows these athletes from the ice
to the slopes as they bear the brunt of constant media questioning
about Russia's anti-gay laws.
In addition to Olympic sports legends, 2014 Olympians and
Olympic hopefuls included in the film are snowboarders Belle
Brockhoff and Simona Meiler, speed skaters Anastasia
Bucsis and Blake Skjellerup, four-time gold medal
winning hockey player Charline Labonté, as well as notable
sports personalities such as Calgary Flames President of Hockey
Operations and USA Hockey personnel director Brian Burke,
Olympic gold medalist swimmer Mark Tewksbury and Russian
Open Games’ Konstantin Yablotskiy and Elvina
Yuvakaeva. To Russia With Love also features interviews
and commentary from David Remnick, editor-in-chief of The
New Yorker, Golden Globe-nominated actor and activist Stephen
Fry and the Brooklyn Nets’ Jason Collins.
To Russia With Love is an EPIX Original Documentary,
produced by Sundance Productions. Noam Gonick is director; Howard
Gertler (Oscar®nominee, How to Survive a Plague) and Elle Flanders
are producers and Emmy® winner Jennifer P. Honn is editor. Laura
Michalchyshyn and Johnny Weir are executive producers and Laina
Cohn is co-producer. Ross Bernard and Jill Burkhart are executive
producers for EPIX.
Join the conversation about #ToRussiaWithLove on Twitter
http://Twitter.com/EpixHD, on Facebook
http://Facebook.com/EPIX and on the EPIX webpage
http://www.epix.com/to-russia-with-love.
Downloadable clips from To Russia With Love are available at:
http://press.epix.com/
About EPIX
EPIX is a premium movie and original programming entertainment
service delivering the latest movie releases, classic film
franchises, original documentaries, comedy and music events on TV,
on demand, online and on devices. Launched in October 2009, EPIX
has pioneered the development and proliferation of “TV Everywhere.”
It was the first premium network to provide multi-platform access
to its content online at EPIX.com and was the first premium network
to launch on Xbox, PlayStation®, Android tablets and phones,
Windows 8.1 and Roku® players. EPIX is available to authenticated
subscribers on hundreds of devices including Apple® iPads® and
iPhones® and is the only premium service providing all its
programming on all platforms, delivering more movies than any other
premium network, with thousands of titles available for
streaming.
EPIX is a joint venture between Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA and
VIA.B), its Paramount Pictures unit, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM). Through relationships with
cable, satellite and telco partners, EPIX is available to over 50
million homes nationwide. For more information about EPIX, go
to www.EPIX.com. Follow EPIX on Twitter @EpixHD
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