 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Report. So today I'm at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth with the director of Lone Star Film Society and Alec, I have to ask, for those of us who have no idea, what is the Russian Film Festival? So the Russian Film Festival is a program that has in a way been in the works for several years. The Lone Star Film Society and the Lone Star Film Festival began partnering with the Moscow Film Festival several years ago to bring new Russian films to Fort Worth. And last year we received a grant from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and also the city of Fort Worth and began working with the Ministry of Culture in Moscow to create an exchange in which we sent some American independent films to the Moscow Film Festival in June and this is the second half of that exchange where they're sending some Russian films here and so they are playing in New York and then they're coming here to the modern to play from the 24th to the 26th. So how many films will we be showing this year? Here in Fort Worth we're going to be doing five screenings. So we start on Friday the 24th with a film called My Father is Baryshnikov and it's about a the Hollywood Reporter called it Billy Elliot meets something else that I can't remember but it's about a young man who starts pretending that his father was the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and he aspires to be a ballet dancer himself. On Saturday we're showing a film called Chappato Show which is in two parts. It's a very long movie by a director named Sergei Lobon who has become a sort of cult cultural figure in Russia for the youth there and Sergei will be here and also Sergei Mokritzky who is the director of My Father is Baryshnikov will also be here to talk about their films and then on and that's Saturday in two parts Chappato Show and then on Sunday we were playing a film called Elena which is a very popular Russian film by a very popular Russian director that premiered at Cannes last year and then finally Hunter which is also a Cannes Film Festival film on Sunday afternoon. So that's four films five screenings tickets are available here at the modern two hours before showtime you can also buy a festival pass for $25 it allows you access to all the screenings and you can get that whenever you want an advance just by calling that the modern here and then Lone Star Film Society members and real people members here at the modern can get advanced tickets by calling the modern as well. Cool so it sounds like it's going to be really awesome this year. Thank you. So for more information about screenings of the Russian Film Festival all you have to do is visit their website at LoneStarFilmSociety.com