Mariupol

The Ukrainian film 20 Days in Mariupol, which was shot inside the besieged port city during the assault by Russian forces, has won the best documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Directed by Mstyslav Chernov, a Ukrainian journalist who documented the invasion in early 2022, 20 Days in Mariupol drew wide acclaim after its premiere at the Sundance film festival in 2023, with the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calling it “a searing film bears a terrible witness to this great crime” in a five-star review. In an…

Journalist-turned-director Mstyslav Chernov`s `20 Days in Mariupol` bagged Best Documentary award at the 77th edition of BAFTA awards. `20 Days In Mariupol` marks Chernov`s documentary feature debut. The project offers a first-person account of the 20 days he and his AP colleagues Maloletka and Stepanenko spent documenting Russia`s invasion of Mariupol, Ukraine, Variety reported. Ukrainian photojournalist Mstyslav Chernov, US film and documentary producer Raney Aronson Rath and US film and documentary producer Michelle…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has won a prestigious broadcast journalism award for “20 Days in Mariupol,” its documentary on the war in Ukraine produced with PBS’ “Frontline.” HT Image The documentary was among 15 winners of the 2024 duPont-Columbia Awards announced at a ceremony at Columbia University in New York on Thursday. Founded in 1942, the awards highlight outstanding audio and video reporting in the public interest. Stay tuned for all the latest updates on Ram Mandir! Click here “20 Days in…

Mstyslav Chernov’s horrifying eyewitness documentary 20 Days in Mariupol is about Vladimir Putin’s brutal siege of the Ukrainian port city, from February to May 2022, resulting in more than 20,000 deaths. It is effectively the director’s cut: the gruelling unexpurgated text of this Associated Press journalist’s original video reports from within the city for western news outlets. They were, even in their packaged version, gruellingly tough – and Chernov’s images of mass graves did a very great deal, even in edited form,…

Welcome to the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.Programming note: Thank you for coming along on our Sundance Film Festival newsletter journey. We’re going back to our regularly scheduled Tuesday dispatches tomorrow, just in time for Oscar nominations.Also, today marks the launch of an L.A. Times special project in the lead-up to the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival in 2024, following the lives and careers of seven independent filmmakers from this…

At the beginning of this story, I want to say that I am Ukrainian and I am proud of it. I want to tell one of the thousands of stories of Ukrainian entrepreneurs. The first office of Kampov Technology, which develops virtual reality projects, opened in Mariupol in 2018. But it was destroyed along with the equipment, as was 99% of all infrastructure in the city. The second office was in Irpen, and it too was destroyed. The team managed to get out of Irpen on foot and miraculously survived, but there is still no contact…

It’s been nearly four months since Russia invaded Ukraine and there still appears to be no end in sight. Individuals from all walks of life have rallied to the country’s aid, utilizing the internet to preserve Ukrainian websites, crank call Russian bureaucrats, and help refugees find shelter. Two artists have even started selling non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, to funnel money to Ukrainians left in desperate circumstances by the war.For the multidisciplinary duo Synchrodogs, which is made up of artists Tania Shcheglova and…

What’s your perspective on everything happening around you? I don’t read the world press, but Ukraine is ready to fight till it’s dead or free. The defiance, the resistance is there. People are highly motivated. Every time Russia tried to attack, Ukraine became more and more consolidated against the common enemy. Now it’s like the climax, the whole nation is against Russia. A lot of people are appreciating the country’s independence, which they earlier took for granted. There are always traitors, who are happy that…

Breadcrumb Trail Links World News The wounded had been given medical treatment while those who were fit had been taken to a penal colony and were being treated well Author of the article: Reuters Max Hunder and Natalia Zinets Publishing date: May 19, 2022  •  12 minutes ago  •  3 minute read  •  Join the conversation Smoke billows from an explosion at the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine May 8, 2022.…

Breadcrumb Trail Links World Author of the article: Service members of Ukrainian forces who have surrendered after weeks holed up at Azovstal steel works are being searched by the pro-Russian military in Mariupol, Ukraine, in this still image taken from a video released May 18, 2022. Photo by Russian Defence Ministry /Handout via REUTERS Article content KYIV/MARIUPOL — Russia said on Wednesday nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol, while the United States became the…