Award winning Russian film director is coming to Mountain View

Online, April 30, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Dandelion Relief Group, a non-profit organization, is proud to announce an "Afternoon with Andrei Nekrasov" on May 2nd, 2010 at the Samovar Hall in Mountain View, California. Andrei Nekrasov has won numerous awards for his films. In 1993 he received the CANNES Film Festival UNESCO Prize for "Springing Lenin", in 2001 he received the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Moscow Russian Film Festival "for the innovative film language" for the film "Lubov and Other Nightmares" and in 2005 his film "Disbelief" won THE BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD at the Karachi International Film festival. Now his film "Russian Lessons" is being screened at the 53rd San Francisco Film Festival.
The war between Russia and Georgia in 2008 has left many wondering, what actually happened. Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya took their film crews into the war zones to document the horrific events of the war and its aftermath. The film was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival as well as Rotterdam Film festival. "Afternoon with Andrei Nekrasov" will take place at the Samovar Hall located at 1077 Independence Ave, Mountain View, California at 2PM. The film "Russian Lessons" will be shown followed by a Q&A with Andrei Nekrasov. There is no charge for this event and anyone is welcome.
"Boldly visiting conflict zones rarely filmed, the co directors uncover damning evidence of Russian violence, incidents whose few recorded images are often reprocessed in mass-media reports as evidence of other people's crimes." http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/russianlessons_sundance2010