The headline on a UNESCO report from final December sums up a grim actuality: “Journalists killed in 2024: a heavy dying toll in battle zones for the second yr operating.”
In Gaza, in Ukraine, and in different battlegrounds around the globe, photojournalists and reporters proceed to threat their lives to doc the brutal influence of battle on combatants and harmless civilians. What compels them to tackle such harmful assignments? Two new Oscar-contending documentaries present perception into that necessary however unsettling query.
On the newest episode of Deadline’s Doc Discuss podcast, we open the mic to Love+Struggle co-director E. Chai Vasarhelyi and the protagonist of her documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario. We additionally converse with Craig Renaud, director of Armed Solely with a Digital camera, a documentary about his brother – the late filmmaker and photojournalist Brent Renaud – in addition to producer Juan Arredondo, who went into the sector with Brent on the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Addario has captured extraordinary photos in Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan and different areas of intense battle. Exterior Kyiv she was injured in an assault by Russian forces that killed civilians just some meters away from her. The Nationwide Geographic movie reveals how Addario makes an attempt to steadiness her work with motherhood; she is elevating two kids together with her husband in London whereas usually going into the sector with the information she may by no means return dwelling.
Brent Renaud paid the final word value for making an attempt to seize the plight of civilians pushed from their houses by the thousands and thousands within the Ukraine battle. Arredondo, who was at Renaud’s aspect when their automobile got here beneath fireplace from a Russian soldier, takes us again to that fateful day in Irpin, Ukraine. Craig Renaud shares the heart-wrenching story of touring to Ukraine to retrieve his brother’s physique and bringing him again dwelling to Arkansas.
Armed Solely with a Digital camera begins streaming on HBO Max on October 21. Love+Struggle opens theatrically on October 29 earlier than premiering on Nationwide Geographic on November 6 and on Disney+ and Hulu on November 7.
The conversations with Vasarhelyi and Addario, and Renaud and Arredondo, are among the many strongest we have now recorded for Doc Discuss.
Doc Discuss is hosted by Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s senior documentary editor. Doc Discuss is a manufacturing of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.
Hearken to the episode above or on main podcast platforms together with Spotify, iHeart and Apple.
The headline on a UNESCO report from final December sums up a grim actuality: “Journalists killed in 2024: a heavy dying toll in battle zones for the second yr operating.”
In Gaza, in Ukraine, and in different battlegrounds around the globe, photojournalists and reporters proceed to threat their lives to doc the brutal influence of battle on combatants and harmless civilians. What compels them to tackle such harmful assignments? Two new Oscar-contending documentaries present perception into that necessary however unsettling query.
On the newest episode of Deadline’s Doc Discuss podcast, we open the mic to Love+Struggle co-director E. Chai Vasarhelyi and the protagonist of her documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario. We additionally converse with Craig Renaud, director of Armed Solely with a Digital camera, a documentary about his brother – the late filmmaker and photojournalist Brent Renaud – in addition to producer Juan Arredondo, who went into the sector with Brent on the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Addario has captured extraordinary photos in Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan and different areas of intense battle. Exterior Kyiv she was injured in an assault by Russian forces that killed civilians just some meters away from her. The Nationwide Geographic movie reveals how Addario makes an attempt to steadiness her work with motherhood; she is elevating two kids together with her husband in London whereas usually going into the sector with the information she may by no means return dwelling.
Brent Renaud paid the final word value for making an attempt to seize the plight of civilians pushed from their houses by the thousands and thousands within the Ukraine battle. Arredondo, who was at Renaud’s aspect when their automobile got here beneath fireplace from a Russian soldier, takes us again to that fateful day in Irpin, Ukraine. Craig Renaud shares the heart-wrenching story of touring to Ukraine to retrieve his brother’s physique and bringing him again dwelling to Arkansas.
Armed Solely with a Digital camera begins streaming on HBO Max on October 21. Love+Struggle opens theatrically on October 29 earlier than premiering on Nationwide Geographic on November 6 and on Disney+ and Hulu on November 7.
The conversations with Vasarhelyi and Addario, and Renaud and Arredondo, are among the many strongest we have now recorded for Doc Discuss.
Doc Discuss is hosted by Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s senior documentary editor. Doc Discuss is a manufacturing of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.
Hearken to the episode above or on main podcast platforms together with Spotify, iHeart and Apple.
