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20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
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20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
Country
UKRAINE
language
UKRAINIAN | ENGLISH | RUSSIAN
2023 year
94 Minutes

Synopsis

An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggles to continue their work documenting the miseries of the war. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later became defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson, Michelle Mizner, Derl McCrudden
Screenplay: Mstyslav Chernov
Director of Photography: Mstyslav Chernov
Editor: Michelle Mizner
Music: Jordan Dykstra
Sound: Jim Sullivan
Cast: Mstyslav Chernov (Narrator and interviewer), Evgeniy Maloletka (Photojournalist)
Awards - Winner: Sundance FF (Audience Award: World Cinema - Documentary), Athens IFF (Special Mention - Best Documentary), Toronto Film Critics Association Awards (Allan King Documentary Award)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: 96th Academy Awards (Ukrainian official entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars 2024), BAFTA Awards (Best Documentary), Palm Springs IFF (FIPRESCI Prize - Best Foreign Language Film)
Director's Biography
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MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Mstyslav Chernov is a Pulitzer Prize-winning video journalist at The Associated Press and President of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. Most recently, he documented Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Together with longtime colleague Evgeniy Maloletka, he recorded the siege of Mariupol, showing the world eyewitness accounts of the Russian attacks on the city. His courageous reporting in Mariupol earned him the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He was named 2016 Camera Operator of the Year and 2015 Young Talent of the Year by the UK’s Royal Television Society.