Premium entertainment network EPIX announced today that Golden
Globe and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch (“Glee”) will lend her voice to
the EPIX Original Documentary, To Russia With Love, that
will make its World Premiere Wednesday, October 29 at 8PM ET.
To Russia with Love explores human rights through the lens
of LGBT athletes, with iconoclastic athlete and commentator Johnny
Weir serving as the viewers’ guide into this world. The 90 minute
film examines the experiences of Olympic legends Billie Jean King and
Greg Louganis as well as the next generation of LGBT athletes who
participated in the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Shooting
worldwide in locations as diverse as Sochi, New York City, Calgary,
Toronto, St. Petersburg and Moscow, the film follows these athletes from
the ice to the slopes as they bear the brunt of constant media
questioning about Russia's anti-gay laws.
In addition to Olympic sports legends, 2014 Olympians and Olympic
hopefuls included in the film are snowboarders Belle Brockhoff
and Simona Meiler, speed skaters Anastasia Bucsis and Blake
Skjellerup, four-time gold medal winning hockey player Charline
Labonté, as well as notable sports personalities such as Calgary
Flames President of Hockey Operations and USA Hockey personnel director Brian
Burke, Olympic gold medalist swimmer Mark Tewksbury and
Russian Open Games’ Konstantin Yablotskiy and Elvina Yuvakaeva.
To Russia With Love also features interviews and
commentary from David Remnick, editor-in-chief of The New
Yorker, Golden Globe-nominated actor and activist Stephen Fry
and the Brooklyn Nets’ Jason Collins.
To Russia With Love is an EPIX Original Documentary,
produced by Sundance Productions. Noam Gonick is director; Howard
Gertler (Oscar®nominee, How to Survive a Plague) and Elle
Flanders are producers and Emmy® winner Jennifer P. Honn is editor.
Laura Michalchyshyn and Johnny Weir are executive producers and Laina
Cohn is co-producer. Ross Bernard and Jill Burkhart are executive
producers for EPIX.
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on the EPIX webpage http://www.epix.com/to-russia-with-love.
Downloadable clips from To Russia With Love are available at: http://press.epix.com/
About EPIX
EPIX is a premium movie and original programming entertainment service
delivering the latest movie releases, classic film franchises, original
documentaries, comedy and music events on TV, on demand, online and on
devices. Launched in October 2009, EPIX has pioneered the development
and proliferation of “TV Everywhere.” It was the first premium network
to provide multi-platform access to its content online at EPIX.com and
was the first premium network to launch on Xbox, PlayStation®, Android
tablets and phones, Windows 8.1 and Roku® players. EPIX is available to
authenticated subscribers on hundreds of devices including Apple® iPads®
and iPhones® and is the only premium service providing all its
programming on all platforms, delivering more movies than any other
premium network, with thousands of titles available for streaming.
EPIX is a joint venture between Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA and VIA.B), its
Paramount Pictures unit, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studios Inc. (MGM). Through relationships with cable, satellite and
telco partners, EPIX is available to over 50 million homes nationwide.
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