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How VFX Producer Ryan Laney Developed Game-Changing Technology For ‘Welcome to Chechnya,’ Shielding Identities Of LGBT Refugees

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On Welcome to Chechnya, VFX producer Ryan Laney introduced game-changing tools with huge implications for the future of documentary filmmaking.Directed by David France, the HBO film spotlights anti-gay purges transpiring in Chechnya in the late 2010s, following LGBT refugees as they make their way out of Russia, with the help of a network of activists.In telling this story, France would have to address a pair of almost paradoxical drives.

Because he wanted viewers to invest themselves, emotionally, in the stories of survivors, he knew he needed to give the doc a human face.

At the same time, he realized early on that he would have to develop a method of disguise, which would protect the identities of his vulnerable subjects.Ultimately,

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