From: AP BY LINDSEY BAHR
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The day Mstyslav Chernov won the BAFTA for his documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” was the day he learned two soldiers he knew had been killed in combat. They were primary subjects of his new film “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a harrowing portrait of modern warfare that puts audiences on the front lines of the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“The film changed along the way,” Chernov, a videojournalist with The Associated Press, said last week after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. “From a story of the success of that operation it became a story of loss, of memory, of the price that soldiers pay for every single inch of the land. And that’s where the name came from.”
Coming back to Park City, Utah, with a new film has been a sobering, full circle moment for Chernov. It’s the place where he first showcased “20 Days in Mariupol” two years ago. Although he received the highest honors a journalist and a filmmaker can get for his work, a Pulitzer Prize and an Oscar included, it’s for reportage on a war in his home country that won’t end and that he can’t stop covering.
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