Fundraise for Ukraine Through Film
Sunday, April 3rd at 3:30 (SOLD OUT)

The Screening Room is partnering with standwithukrainethroughfilm.org to present The Guide – a story that takes place during the 1930s when millions in Ukraine were being starved to death by Stalin’s Soviet Union, and a history that has direct parallels with what’s going on today. Proceeds from all ticket sales to this screening will be donated to the Ukraine Relief Fund, a fund established in cooperation with Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America (HCROA).

Oles Sanin, the film’s director who is currently still in Kyiv, has added a recorded introduction to the film. And Marshall Strauss, board president of HCROA will introduce this screening in person to talk about the Ukrainian Relief Fund.

Throughout its history, popular national culture was sustained in Ukraine by blind minstrels, or kobzars, who traveled from village to village with young guides, performing folk songs and ballads. In The Guide, an American boy, Peter (Anton Sviatoslav Greene), and a blind musician, Ivan (Stanislav Boklan), are thrown together by fate amidst the 1930s "Terror Famine.”  

In mid-March, HCROA board president Marshall Strauss showed this film at Cinema Salem, just south of Newburyport. “Almost instantly,” he says, “the effort exploded in size and key industry leaders joined the project, donating their services. Now, cinemas across the country are agreeing to show this milestone movie. The director and I agreed on only one condition: ticket proceeds are to go to humanitarian relief for Ukraine.”

Proceeds from the fundraiser will be forwarded to selected nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations already active in providing humanitarian assistance in Ukraine and nearby countries supporting Ukrainian refugees. Among them will be the International Red Cross and the International Organization for Migration. To make a direct contribution, click here: standwithukrainethroughfilm.org