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Show The Park Record C-2 BUY OR SELL WITH CONFIDENCE. Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 21-24, 2017 ‘Cries’ explains refugees’ plight We leverage the combination of strong local knowledge and the global marketing power of Summit Sotheby’s International Realty. “Our experience was fantastic! Highly responsive, knowledgeable, friendly and determined.” – Lauren and Ian K. Quinn Eichner Realtor ® 435.640.1854 quinn.eichner@sothebysrealty.com ParkCityPropertyGuide.com Dena Eytan Realtor ® 435.659.9347 dena.eytan@sothebysrealty.com ParkCityPropertyGuide.com ©MMXVII Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC. All Rights Reserved. Sotheby’s International Realty® is a licensed trademark to Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC. Equal Housing Opportunity. Each Office Independently Owned & Operated. COURTESY OF SUNDANCE INSTITUTE Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary “Cries from Syria” will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 22. The fim utilizes first-person footage shot by citizen journalists. Afineevky’s documentary premieres Sunday By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The Season: FRAN LEIBOVITZ presents February 4, 2017 STORM LARGE February 18, 2017 CIRQUE ELOIZE SALOON February 21 & 22, 2017 ALVIN AILEY DANCE COMPANY II February 24 & 25, 2017 LIDIA YUKNAVITCH March 4, 2017 JEFF CORWIN March 11, 2017 BALLET WEST March 18, 2017 TAJ MAHAL March 25, 2017 SARAH KOENIG AND JULIE SNYDER April 1, 2017 In 2016, the United Nations estimated 13.5 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance and more than 6 million of the total have been displaced. The U.N. also roughly calculated that more than 4.8 million lSyrian citizens have moved outside their home country since the Syrican Civil War started in 2001. In award-winning filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary “Cries from Syria,” which will premier at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 22, children and parents recount how the Syrian revolution began and how it quickly escalated to a war where torture, beatings and mass killings of citizens occur at the hands of the country’s military regime on a daily basis. Consequently, the film, which was picked up by HBO, features some disturbing and violent images, culled from more than 100 hours of first-person footage shot by citizen journalists and activists. Afineevsky’s interest in the Syrian crisis started in 2014, while shooting “Winter on Fire,” an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-nominated documentary about the Ukrainian Revolution. “During my last month in the Ukraine, I did see the flag of the Syrian Revolution there,” Afineevsky said during a Park Record interview. “That really struck me.” Shortly thereafter, Afineevsky saw Jehane Notjaim’s documentary “The Square,” which was about the Egyptian Revolution. “It was one after another,” Afineevsky said. “So, when I finished ‘Winter on Fire,’ I still was in Europe and decided to start on some research.” While learning about Syria’s history, especially focusing on the past 40 years of dictatorship that started with Hafez al-Assad and continued with his son Bashar alAssad, who became president in 2000, Afineevsky knew something needed to be done. Then he saw the new images of Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Kurdish boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach last September after the inflatable raft he and 15 other refugees were using to flee Syria capsized in the Medi- you care about your business. so do we. JOHN MCKUEN April 8, 2017 2016-17 Season NELLIE MCKAY April 15, 2017 Member ticket sales available by phone only starting September 15 Non-Member ticket sales available by phone and online starting September 22 ALL EVENTS AT THE ECCLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMACE ARTS 1750 KEARNS BLVD / PARK CITY,UT TICKETS FROM $29 BOX OFFICE 435-655-3114 PARK CITY.INSTITUTE We offer you the solutions you need to reach your target audience. Our knowledgeable staff can help you choose the right advertising program to ensure your success. With marketing knowledge and advertising experience, our professionals will help you track your results and choose the marketing solutions that work best for your business. 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The biggest challenge was telling the full story of the Syrian plight in a comprehensive, twohour documentary. “When you jump into a story like this, you don’t really know how you are going to tell it,” he said. “When I was collecting material and doing research, I didn’t know what I was going to portray. “In the beginning, I thought about emphasizing the Syrian refugees and the kids who are struggling through all of this,” Afineevsky said. “As I got more and more into the history, I realized that I needed to tell the story by chapters to make it more simple for the audience to understand each step of the events.” The unrest started in the spring of 2011, shortly after Syrian citizens began protesting the torture, beating and killing of teens who were critical of al-Assad’s regime. “That was the last straw that brought the revolution, which became a civil war that has made brother fight brother,” Afineevsky said. “All of a sudden, there is a situation where the failing regime began getting help from the outside who are involved with all of these catastrophes.” Outsiders included Russia, Please see Afineevsky, C-5 |