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How the ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ VFX Team Kept Subjects’ Identities Secret Through ‘Veiling’ Faces

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDavid France’s “Welcome to Chechnya” could very well make Oscar history as the first documentary to be nominated for Best Visual Effects.The documentary details the brutality the LGBTQ community faces in Chechnya at the hands of the government.

France goes inside the shocking and horrific genocide that Chechnyan leader Ramzan Kadyrov is unleashing on people who live in danger because of their sexual orientation.Grisha is one of the many brave subjects who go on the record to talk to France about being tortured and beaten at the hands of this regime.

But his identity is protected, so that is where Ryan Laney stepped in as visual effects supervisor, using digital face replacement technology.

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