Prospectus

A film like “Holodomor: Ukraine's Genocide” deserves and requires maximum exposure to reach its full cinematic and artistic potential. Therefore, it will require a compelling and fresh awareness campaign with a clear, unique, avant-guard, “out of the box” strategy.

There are three major areas how this project will create awareness:

• Educational/Festivals

  Currently these events surrounding “Holodomor: Ukraine's Genocide” are not widely known within the Western world. If any information is known about this tragedy, it was passed down over the decades through eyewitnesses and victims rather than through the media.

  "HOLODOMOR: Ukraine's Genocide" will deliver a rare educational insight into one of the largest and most devastating events in modern history. Not only was this man-made famine a major economic disaster, it was also a tremendous human tragedy. The death toll was higher in Ukraine than in all the countries combined during World War I.

  All of the major film festivals: Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, and Cannes can provide a much-needed platform for this documentary. It will give an opportunity for the victims to share their silenced memories in hopes of bringing a public awareness to this genocide and remembering the people who suffered and relinquished life.

• Academy Award Consideration

  The Academy recognizes and awards the best documentary films of the year. The excellence of a documentary film is judged on the basis of its "originality, honesty, historical content and production quality.

  An emotional, personal compelling film like "HOLODOMOR: Ukraine's Genocide" makes it a worthy competitor for the Academy Awards and also a mainstream avenue to promote awareness to the world and educate our children, grandchildren and tomorrow's leaders.

• Distribution

  “Holodomor: Ukraine's Genocide” is an attractive candidate for domestic and international distribution in all arenas: Theatrical, DVD, VOD (video on demand), Television, Non-Theatrical and E-Commerce.

  • "HOLODOMOR: Ukraine's Genocide" is a documentary film, a genre that has been popularized by such successful films as “Fahrenheit 911”, “March of the Penguins” and “An Inconvenient Truth”.
  • "HOLODOMOR: Ukraine's Genocide" has tremendous appeal to a Ukrainian audience. The total number of Ukrainians in the United States in 2000 was estimated at 893,055 by the census, compared to the 1,862,416 estimated by the Census 2003 Supplementary Survey.