My Film Has Premiered And There's One More In The Making - June 24th 2024

Fighting For Ukraine

June 24th 2024

Yuriy shares the emotional journey of his film's premiere and gives a sneak peek into his next project dedicated to the realities of war. Discover the stories behind the scenes and the people who inspired them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAHe_g7Z3vg
https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/p/cannibals-but-partners-why-the-west?r=dzvo1
https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/p/putins-stability-is-being-blown-up?r=dzvo1

https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/p/unleashing-azov-why-one-of-ukraines
https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/p/chronicle-of-kharkiv-during-the-war

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TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions) 

 It is June 24.

Well, my film has finally premiered. In fact, there were two premieres. First Kyiv at the War film festival, and one in Cherkasy, the hometown of a person the film is about. I have to admit, the audience liked the film, the mother and sister of the film's hero cried and thanked me for preserving the image of the loved one on screen. The film is already on YouTube and there will be a link to it in the podcast description. I must note that it is in Ukrainian and the people in it are unlikely to be familiar to a Western audience, but it is still worth your attention.

Also, I have a cameo in the film. I appear on screen for a few seconds. You probably won't recognize me because the scene ends so quickly, but I'll give you a hint. The soldier with a camera around whom a small dog is running, is me. It's such a successful scene during the shooting of which we all almost died, that it'll be also included in the next film I'm working on.

It'll be dedicated to Bakhmut from which I have several hours of footage. Unfortunately, not all of the people in these shots are still with us. At least one person, a young, cheerful girl, died a few months after I filmed her story. I don't know if all this will be interesting to the viewer, but it is a reflection of reality -life in war, unembellished and uncolored, just as it is.

I also have three links for you today to my film and to two of my new articles. I hope you not only enjoy listening to me but also reading my works. By the way, I have a video somewhere where I talk about my combat scooter and its strange journey. I used it to get around in the early days of the war. If you are interested, let me know and I will edit it at English subtitles and post it on Substack, and don't forget what GoFundMe operates daily, that there are no small donation and that without your help, neither the podcast, the articles nor videos from me can exist.