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Tuesday, September 24
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

US Navy Memorial, Burke Theater

701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004

From Russia with Lev

Director

Billy Corben

Executive Producers

Rachel Maddow, Rashida Jones, Rebecca Kutler, Amanda Spain

Producer

Alfred Spellman

Editor

Harris Mendheim

Cinematographer

From Executive Producer Rachel Maddow and Director Billy Corben, “From Russia with Lev” reveals the outrageous scheme that led to former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment. It follows the much, much larger-than-life journey of Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-born hustler and former small-time mafia operator whose random, almost accidental association with Trump and Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani took him around the world, and ultimately to prison. Lev reveals the ham-handed workings of the furtive campaign to dredge up false but damaging allegations against then-candidate Joe Biden.

Post-screening discussion with Executive Producer, Rachel Maddow, producer Alfred Spellman, and featured subject, Lev Parnas.

Executive Producer, From Russia with Lev

Rachel Maddow is host of the Emmy Award-winning “The Rachel Maddow Show” which airs Mondays at 9pm ET on MSNBC. Maddow has written, produced and hosted four original podcasts for MSNBC – “Rachel Maddow Presents: Bag Man” in 2018, which won a DuPont Columbia Award and was nominated for a Peabody Award; “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra” in October 2022, which received the first-ever Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism for a podcast in 2023 and was optioned in 2022 by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to be made into a feature film; the six-episode series “RachelMaddow Presents: Deja News,” and most recently “Ultra Season Two” which debuted in June 2024 at #1 on Apple Podcasts.

Maddow is also the author of several New York Times best-selling books including “DRIFT: The Unmooring of American Military Power,” “Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth,” and most recently, “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism,” which all debuted at #1 on the New York Times best seller list.

Director, From Russia with Lev

Emmy, Peabody, and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning filmmaker Billy Corben is a Florida native, lifelong Miamian and co-founder of the Miami Beach-based production company rakontur. He has directed such documentaries as the Sundance Film Festival selection Deal: A Question of Consent (2001), the Cocaine Cowboys franchise, including the Netflix Original Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami (2021), Dawg Fight (2015), TIFF World Premiere Screwball (2018), the HBO Original 537 Votes (2020), executive produced by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice), and the ESPN 30 for 30s The U (2009), Broke (2012) and The U Part 2 (2014). His latest, God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty (2022), is the most-watched doc in Hulu history.