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In the Studio: Anton Skrypets: Making a war movie in a war zone

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Anton Skrypets

10/10/2023 GMT

Anton Skrypets: Making a war movie in a war zone

BBC World Service - In the Studio, Anton Skrypets: Making a war movie in a war zone

Stay Online is the first film about the full-scale war in Ukraine

Young producer Anton Skrypets tells Antonia Quirke about the dangers and challenges of making a war movie in a war zone.

Stay Online is the first film about the full-scale war in Ukraine. Young producer Anton Skrypets tells Antonia Quirke about the dangers and challenges of this groundbreaking production, through a series of interviews and diary entries interspersed by the sound of air raid sirens and drone attacks. 

Directed by his sister Yeva Strielnikova, Stay Online is a rare thing: a war movie made entirely in a war zone. Anton talks about the serious challenges that the cast and crew faced during the harrowing weeks of filming, and contemplates an uphill struggle to complete the project and get it into cinemas. But it all seems worth it when they receive an invitation to host the world premiere at a festival in Montreal. The only problem now is how to get there from Kyiv...

Producer: Antonia Quirke
Executive producer: Stephen Hughes

(Photo: Anton Skrypets. courtesy of  Anton Skrypets)

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