Ukrainian War Documentaries in the Shortlists of the Oscar Award
Maciek Hamela’s documentary film In the Rearview, co-produced by Poland, Ukraine, and France, which this year became the Best Documentary at the 14th Odesa International Film Festival and received a special award from the Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, has been shortlisted for the Oscar Award in the Best Documentary category.
“I would like to thank everyone who films and shows this war. We at the Museum of Civilian Voices believe that now is the era of documentary cinema. The era of films that show what is happening, films that do not allow the truth to be hidden or distorted. That is why the opportunity to help documentary filmmakers is invaluable for us,” noted Natalya Yemchenko, a member of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation’s supervisory board, during the award presentation to Mr Hamela.
The documentary film Twenty Days in Mariupol directed by Mstyslav Chernov entered the Oscar shortlists in two categories: Best Documentary and Best International Film. Photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and producer Vasylisa Stepanenko took part in the filmmaking process. The film crew won the Pulitzer Prize for their work. Evgeniy Maloletka shared his experience of documenting terrible events in the besieged city with the Museum of Civilian Voices. You can find his story, told first-hand, at the link https://bit.ly/3HR9LMG
Oscar’s nominees will be announced on 23 January 2024, and the award winners will be named on 10 March.
The Museum of Civilian Voices documents the events described first-hand by people who suffered from the war. The Museum’s archive now has more than 90,000 such stories. The Museum supports documentary cinema within a joint mission, which is to tell the world what Ukraine is going through, to prevent stories, faces, and voices from being forgotten and left in the faceless numbers of statistics.
Every war story matters. To preserve the memory for a better future, tell your story on the portal of the Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation https://civilvoicesmuseum.org/ or via the toll-free hotline 0 (800) 509 001.
