"Crocodile Gennadiy," which had its world premiere Thursday night at New York's Tribeca Film Festival, paints an indelible picture of a strong-willed pastor named Gennadiy Mokhnenko who rescues or forcibly abducts homeless, drug-addicted children from the streets of Mariupol, Ukraine. The film shows Mokhnenko counseling a girl whose alcoholic mother said of the 15-year-old and her 8-year-old brother, "When will you two die?" He removes another girl whose father hanged himself with a TV cable and whose mother and grandmother cannot hear or speak and prostitute themselves for vodka. Hoover and Yourd, along with others from their employer, Pittsburgh production company Animal, had collaborated on "Blood Brother" about a friend working in India with children living at an orphanage for those infected with the AIDS virus. No stranger to TV coverage or controversy and willing to share archival footage of his efforts dating to 2000, he was open to a full-length film. All crews encounter obstacles but this one was attacked by a mob with tear gas, baseball bats and makeshift clubs in March 2014 while filming the remains of what had been a pro-Russian protest hours earlier. Get them out of here, someone can be heard saying in an audio preceding the attack, which started with insults and built to shattered glass, ferocious pounding on the van and a woman yanked out of the vehicle at one point. The festival, accurately, calls the film a "bold and captivating portrait of a man fighting to change Ukraine for the better, as its place in a tense political landscape hangs in the balance." John Pope from "Blood Brother" repeats as cinematographer and it counts some heavy hitters behind the scenes including Terrence Malick as an executive producer and Atticus Ross ("The Social Network") as one of the composers.
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By BARBARA VANCHERI, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, San Antonio Express-News: World
Sun, 04/19/2015 - 10:57am
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