The team of the Ukrainian film "Redaktsia" will visit Kyiv and 9 other cities with special screenings and discussions
Кадр з фільму "Редакція"
The team of the Ukrainian film "Editorial" will visit 10 cities of Ukraine with special screenings and discussions about local media as drivers of social change
Within the framework of the events, there will be panel discussions about the tape, the state of regional media and ways to counter Russian propaganda.
On the eve of the all-Ukrainian distribution, the team of the film "Editorial" directed by Roman Bondarchuk will visit 10 Ukrainian cities with special screenings and discussions - with representatives of local media and viewers. The film will appear in theaters on November 28.
During November and December, the creative group Redaktsi, distributor Arthouse Traffic and Lviv Media Forum will hold pre-premiere screenings of the film in 10 cities of Ukraine (Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi). In addition to the screening, each city will host a discussion with the participation of local media representatives - "Local media as drivers of social change: pre-premiere screening and discussion of the film Redaction by Roman Bondarchuk." Together with the moderator(s), journalists and viewers will be able to discuss how local media has changed since 2014, how Russian disinformation works in their regions, and effective tactics for countering disinformation. Discussions will last 45 minutes after the tape is shown.
Among the invited event moderators: Max Shcherbyna (Toronto Television), Otar Dovzhenko (Lviv Media Forum), Ivan Antipenko (Radio Liberty), Olga Yurkova (StopFake), Lilia Shutyak (Y. Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University), Olena Leptuga (Nakipylo) , Zoya Krasovska (Lviv Media Forum), Halyna Tanai (Lviv Media Forum).
"In each city of the tour, we invite representatives of regional media and media organizations, fixers, bloggers, public activists and administrators of tageram channels to a conversation. Together with the moderators, the film team and representatives of local publications, we want to talk about what the media were like in the periods after 2014 and 2022 and what they are now, how Russia affects the news in various areas and how to help the audience not drown in the flow of information, but find quality sources.
After all, Roman Bondarchuk's "Editorial" is like a retrospective, which gives an opportunity to see and gain a deeper understanding of the changes that our media space has experienced over the past few years. Perhaps you will even be able to feel relief, because the phrase "it will get worse" is not always about us," - Dara Franko, communications consultant at the Lviv Media Forum NGO.
The schedule of events, as well as registration and tickets, will appear on the distributor's website. If you are a representative of the media and want to attend the screening of the promotional tour in your city, please fill out the form.
"Editorial" is a comedy, which the specialized American publication Variety defined as "post-truth satire." The picture was taken shortly before the full-scale invasion of the Kherson region, in particular, in the currently occupied Oleshkivsky Sands. The world premiere of the film took place at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in the Forum program.
The plot of the film unfolds in a southern town in the Kherson region. A scientist at the Yura Natural History Museum witnesses a deliberate forest fire. Seeking to tell the truth about forest fires, he starts working in the editorial office of a local newspaper. However, instead he finds himself in a vortex of fake news and corruption schemes. After all, the mayor's election is just around the corner, and the main candidate is making pre-election promises despite being in a coma.
Director Roman Bondarchuk, known for his previous films "Volcano", "Ukrainian Sheriffs" and "Dixie Land", will join the discussions. Bondarchuk is also known as the art director of the Docudays UA festival. "Editorial" continues the director's series of films dedicated to the study of the South of Ukraine.
"In 2020, in order to write the script for this film, we spoke with dozens of journalists working in the regions. We were interested in why the surrounding reality did not coincide with what was written about it. Why does time seem to freeze in the media, like a solid groundhog day.
With the onset of a full-scale invasion, reality became impossible to ignore. Many media outlets were forced to close, evacuate, and eventually go online. The occupiers seized editorial offices and publishing houses, in particular, in Kherson they published the propaganda newspaper "Pravda" on stolen paper. There are even more channels of information dissemination, even more enemy fakes and information sabotage.
I am incredibly interested to meet those journalists who are currently facing these challenges. And also to reflect together on the recent past that lives in our film," - Roman Bondarchuk, director of the film "Editorial".
Some actors and actresses will also be present at the events, including Rimma Zyubina ("Lyusia intern", "Dove's Nest"). The film starred: Dmytro Bagnenko - a journalist and now a military man, actress Rimma Zyubina ("Lyusya intern", "Dove's Nest"), Zhanna Ozirna (director of the film "Honeymoon"), playwright Maksym Kurochkin, actors Andriy Kyrylchuk ("Pamfir" ), Vasyl Kuharskyi ("Maxim Osa"), Serhii Stepanskyi ("Volcano"), director Oleksandr Shmal, journalist Serhiy Ivanov and others.
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