Un/Told
A Practical Online Documentary Playwriting Course
educator
USA, 2024
Co_tutors — Ekaterina Bondarenko, Elizaveta Spivakovskaya
Course of Documentary Playwriting. It took place from May to July 2024 under the guidance of Anastasia Patlay. The result was 9 new documentary plays written in Russian by authors from seven different countries: Georgia, Armenia, Israel, Latvia, Germany, Serbia, and Montenegro.
Photo: screenshots from the workshop
The plays, created at the course:
Udmurt as a Native Language, Lena Belyaeva:
About the lost native language, as well as who is to blame and what (not) to do.
Into the Last Car, Alexandra Berenstein:
About how the mothers of transgender people shelter and save their children from the clutches of the Russian army, government, and homophobic society.
Run Forrest Run, Anna Getman:
About escape and desertion as a feat: refusing to kill people, associated with enormous risk of persecution.
My Red Nose, Ilya Domanov:
About the work of medical clowns in the "Barzilai" hospital, located in Ashkelon, near the Gaza border.
The World Tried to Catch Me, but Did Not, Veronika Zhuravleva:
What is the price of personal freedom in an unfree country, and how the genius contemporary Sergey Parajanov remains in the memory of others.
Bad Buryat Good, Karina Pronina:
About why the myth of "Putin's fighting Buryats" appeared in Russia and how it is transforming now.
Open Relationships, Igor Sergeev:
Doc-dramedy about the love of two emigrant guys in Munich.
The Timofeevs and Death, Andrey Timofeev:
About several generations of a Latvian Russian family against the backdrop of great history.
It's Time to Leave, Polina Shipina:
About the turning points of history that force a person to act.
Un/Told showed a keen interest in documentary theater, so next year the UnFilmed school plans to repeat this course.
PartnersUn/Filmed, USA