As the
world holds its breath watching Russia continue its
assault on the Ukraine,
Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk sat down with HFPA journalist Lena
Basse to share her gut-wrenching experience of discovering life imitating art.
The two discuss her film The Earth is Blue as Orange, which
followed a single mother
and her four children
trying to live a normal life in the war zone of southern and eastern Ukraine in the wake
of Russia's annex of
Crimea in 2014, which won for
Best Director in the 2020 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary
Category as well as how that now compares to
life in Kyiv, where she’s trapped with husband, author Artem Chekh, and
eleven-year-old son Andrii, and how her hopes and dreams for the
future are keeping her going through this indescribable
time.