It was 2012 when American documentary filmmaker Steve Hoover first came across Gennadiy Mokhnenko – the Ukrainian vigilante pastor around whom Hoover's latest film Almost Holy is centred, who has made a name for himself in the south-eastern city of Mariupol by "forcibly abducting homeless drug-addicted kids from the streets" and taking them back to the centres he runs through his charity Pilgrim.
Hoover was in the final stages of post-production on his 2013…
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