CMFW Spring Festival 2023 “SOUNDS FOR ALL”

presents

Why Music?: ”When the Truth Is Revealed”

Remembering Holodomor genocide in Ukraine, 1932-1933
This event is presented in partnership with Liberty Ukraine Foundation

Saturday, April 22^nd, 6 PM to 9:30 PM
Covenant United Methodist Church, 4410 Duval Rd, Austin, TX 78727

PROGRAM

6:00 – 6: 15

Greeting – Younnie Wall & Kate Voinova
About Homestead project – Olenka Bravo

6:15 – 6:25
Trumpet solo by Alexis Cavazos

Ukrainian National Anthem

Bassoon solo – Oleksandr Syedin

Oblivion………………. Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

6:25 – 8:30 Film screening

“Mr. Jones” (2019), dir. Agnieszka Holland. (Please note that this film is unrated.)

8:30- 8:40 – Cello solo by Francesco Mastromatteo

Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, Prelude ………….. J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Etude No. 34 and No. 17 …………………………….. David Popper (1843-1913)

8:40 – 8:55 Intermission

8:55 – 9:30

Discussions lead by the guest speaker, Dr. Oksana Lutsyshyna, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reception with refreshments at Fellowship Hall.

Trailer of the film “Mr. Jones”- this film is unrated – viewers discretion is advised.

About the film

1h 59min | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 2019

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Screenplay: Andrea Chalupa
Cinematography: Tomasz Naumiuk
Music: Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz
Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Fenella Woolgar, Michalina Olszańska, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Patrycja Volny, and others.

Synopsis:
Shot in Poland, Scotland and in original locations in the Ukraine, Agnieszka Holland’s film recalls the legendary journalist Gareth Jones (1905-1935) who, despite fierce resistance, could not be dissuaded from telling the truth. Jones’s encounter with the young George Orwell is said to have inspired the latter’s dystopian parable ‘Animal Farm’ (1945).

Based on real events, the dramatic thriller “Mr. Jones” chronicles a young Welsh investigative journalist, Mr. Jones (James Norton), who goes to Moscow to interview Stalin and report on a rapid modernization of the Soviet Union. There he meets a British journalist, Ada Brooks, and thanks to her he discovers that the truth about the Stalinist regime is brutally muffled by Soviet censors. He sets out on a lonely journey through Ukraine. He witnesses the tragedy of a tremendous famine (Holodomor) caused by the Soviet policy and describes it after his return to London. The publication is silenced and its authenticity is questioned by Western journalists who remain under pressure from the Kremlin. Despite death threats Gareth continues his fight for the truth. He decides to share his discoveries with a young, aspiring writer – George Orwell.