Sundance-Sure ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ Boarded by way of Dogwoof


Dogwoof has received global gross sales rights for “2000 Meters in Andriivka” by way of Ukrainian filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov, director of the 2024 Academy Award winner for best possible documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.” “2000 Meters in Andriivka” is about to have its global premiere Jan. 23 at Sundance Movie Competition as a part of the Global Cinema Documentary Festival.

Dogwoof will release global gross sales for the movie at Sundance. The documentary might be dispensed by way of PBS Distribution in North The us. It marks Dogwoof’s 2d collaboration with Chernov, PBS’s “Frontline” and the Related Press following “20 Days in Mariupol.”

“20 Days in Mariupol” introduced audiences a visceral view of the primary days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its civilian toll. Now, in “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian infantrymen — who they’re, the place they got here from, and the unattainable choices they face within the trenches as they try for each and every inch of land.

Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko observe a Ukrainian platoon traversing via one mile of a closely fortified woodland on their project to free up the small, Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. However as “2000 Meters to Andriivka” unearths the farther the warriors advance via their destroyed hometown, the extra they understand that this warfare might by no means finish.

Weaving in combination Ukrainian Military bodycam pictures and moments of mirrored image, Chernov captures the warfare in his personal nation from a private and devastating vantage level. “2000 Meters to Andriivka” paperwork a fight emblematic of the wider Russian-Ukraine Battle — the most important army operation in Europe since Global Battle II — and items a view of contemporary war harking back to battles fought just about a century in the past.

Dogwoof’s leader content material officer Oli Harbottle stated: “After the common approval for ‘20 Days in Mariupol,’ Mstyslav has no longer simplest cemented his place as some of the fearless frontline reporters within the box however has constructed upon it to ship a surprisingly immersive and cinematic piece of filmmaking to depict the tragic hopelessness of warfare for the ones combating at the floor. We’re commemorated to be reuniting with PBS ‘Frontline’ and the Related Press to carry this atypical movie to audiences world wide.”

“We’re happy to as soon as once more be operating with Dogwoof to carry this essential eyewitness journalism to audiences globally,” AP senior vp and govt editor Julie Tempo stated. “’2000 Meters to Andriivka’ supplies an unflinching view of the continuing warfare in Ukraine, appearing the truth of what’s going down at the floor.”

The movie is produced by way of “Frontline’s” senior editor and manufacturer Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath, the display’s editor-in-chief and govt manufacturer. It’s edited by way of Mizner. The movie is co-produced and contains further cinematography by way of Babenko. The tune consists by way of two-time Grammy Award-winning composer and tune manufacturer Sam Slater (“Chernobyl,” “Joker”).


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