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Anna Sirota
Anna Sirota
Career
Российский сценарист.
Filmography
3
St. Petersburg, Russia Killing Girls brings us into the world of an abortion clinic that specializes in late term teenage abortions. Here, abortions are sometimes performed even after 6 months of pregnancy. Killing girls is a story made for women with a women’s point of view. Russian writer Anna Sirota shares her own personal story with the audience, comparing the sad experience’s of her own, with Russia's new generation of teenagers. Killing Girls tells the truth about abortion - this film is neither Pro Life nor Pro Choice. Filmmakers follow the main characters when they enter the clinic and stay with them when they leave. But it is not just a documentary about girls who have had to make a tough decisions and only focusing on the medical procedures. Killing Girls is a story about moral and economic choices in today’s Russian society. It is the story about girls that at one point in their life decided to end a late term pregnancy. It is the story of the doctors who performs these late term abortions. Who are these people and what makes them do what they do? Killing girls takes the audience through the history of abortion in Russia, through the Stalin time to Perestroika, and ending up today. It is story about choices and decisions, about morals and consequences, about sin and salvation and finally about the eternal battle between life and death. This battle is happening today. This film is the 3rd part of the trilogy by David Kinsella and Anna Sirota called “The Children of Perestroika”. Other films - „Love Letters from a Children's Prison“ and „Beautiful Tragedy“ are also available for viewing on our site. The 3 films compare the Russian youth of before the revolution and after.
Killing girls
8
2009
80 min
A Beautiful Tragedy is a character driven documentary film about 15 year old Oksana Skorik, at the Perm State Ballet School, who follows her mother’s dream to see her become a prima ballerina. Russian classical ballet is exceptional. It has glorious traditions, and is a distinct part of Russian self consciousness. The popular engagement is huge, and dance is taken to higher levels of perfection than anywhere else. The Perms Order of Honour Choreographic School lies far east in Russia, close to Siberia, and is one of the most renowned schools in the world. Of five hundred children selected for the annual audition at the school, only 30 are accepted. To get a place in the school the body has to be perfect: each part of the body is given marks, 5 is perfection. Then they look to see how supple the girls are, stretching their small bodies in every direction. Most of the girls spend 9 years at this school, sacrificing their youth and suffering unbearable pain – only to realize that their dream will not come true. Their ultimate goal could crash at any given moment. Oksana Skorik - the main character of the film - is the new Prima Ballerina at Meriinsky theatre in St Petersburg, and the new Russian star. This film is the 2nd part of the trilogy by David Kinsella and Anna Sirota called “The Children of Perestroika”. Other films - „Love Letters from a Children's Prison“ and „Killing Girls“ are also available for viewing on our site. The 3 films compare the Russian youth of before the revolution and after.
Beautiful Tragedy
5
2007
58 min
Love letters from a Children's Prison brings us into a prison for teenagers. Many of the boys here will spend most of their lives in jail, convicted for hard crime murders, rapes and robbery. The main reason why they are here is poverty, alcoholism, the weakness or absence of their families, and that they see no possibility of a decent future. Thousands of young boys, living on the edge of society, are fighting to survive from one week to the next. The film relates the story of a girl in love with a boy who is convicted for murder. They are writing love letters. She is trying to make him a better human, to prepare him for a new life outside the walls. But his fellow prisoners are teenage murderers and rapists, and their influence on him is devastating. The film is about hope, love and young men that have become totally brutalized. Will our young man end up as the others, or is there a possibility that Ira can save him with her love? This film is the 1st part of the trilogy by David Kinsella and Anna Sirota called “The Children of Perestroika”. Other films - „Beautiful Tragedy“ and „Killing Girls“ are also available for viewing on our site. The 3 films compare the Russian youth of before the revolution and after.
Love Letters from a Children's Prison
5
2006
73 min