Twelve months since the Russian invasion, TBI talks to Ukrainian media organisations about how they have kept cameras rolling in a country in the midst of conflict. Running all through this week, we’ll be publishing extended interviews from our recent article on Ukrainain production (which you can read here). Here, TBI talks to Oleksandr Bohutskyi, […]
One year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Mark Layton investigates how producers and broadcasters in the country have kept cameras rolling and what the global industry can do to support them. Today marks one year since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since February 2022, tens of thousands of people have been killed and […]
Ukraine’s top production and channel groups are approaching European public broadcasters to pre-buy content from the country as they seek to keep its TV industry functioning. The Ukraine Content Club (UCC), which was formed shortly after the Russian invasion, operates as a charity with an independent board and was created to provide a pathway for shows to make […]
Content and co-operation are the greatest weapons in the arsenal of the Ukrainian TV industry, said execs from the sector at a MIPTV panel in Cannes yesterday. The panel saw representatives from Film.UA Group, Media Group Ukraine, 1+1 Media and StarLightMedia, who would normally be rivals for viewers and content under ordinary circumstances, come together […]
Sky acquires HBO’s Yusuf Hawkins doc Sky in the UK has acquired feature documentary Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn for broadcast on its Sky Documentaries channel and NOW TV on-demand service. Produced by Lightbox and directed by Muta’Ali Muhammad, the film, which premiered on HBO, tells the story of Hawkins, a black teenager who was […]
