Movie Description
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is a 2013 documentary film by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film follows the court cases on the Russian feminist/anti-Putinist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot. Directed by Lerner and Pozdorovkin, the film featured publicly available footage of the court proceedings and interviews with the families of the band members, but no interviews with the band members themselves.
The HBO network subsequently bought the U.S. television rights to the film The film aired on HBO on 10 June 2013. The BBC showed the film on 21 October 2013 in its Storyville series of documentaries. Reviews have generally been generally positive. The film was one of 15 feature-length documentaries short listed for a 2014 Academy Award. It was not included in the final list of nominees.