RADPOD: Zarina Zabrisky on Russia’s ‘Kholodomor’
Please check out our latest interview with war correspondent and filmmaker Zarina Zabrisky, who is at the Munich Security Conference today screening her film, Kherson: Human Safari
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Thank you to those of you who stayed up late and got up early to join Bette’s Happy Hour this week, with Zarina Zabrisky reporting live from Odesa, Ukraine.
We met up with her the day before she left to screen her film, Kherson: Human Safari at the Munich Security Conference, which took place today.
I had the honor of being an executive producer on the film, and thanks to her hard work, the film has screened in 23 cities, and has been translated into seven languages, and informed multiple reports by the UN and Human Rights Watch on Russia’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kherson.
If you have not yet watched the film, you can do so here:
Those of you who missed her at Bette on Tuesday, can check out RadPod’s new interview with her here:
She shares a personal story about the KGB’s attempt to turn her into a “hot currency prostitute and spy” when she was 16 years old; she gives boots on the ground reporting from Odesa and Kherson and offers us a preview of her second film in the Kherson trilogy.
More about Zarina Zabrisky:
An award-winning author of five books, Zarina Zabrisky is a U.S. journalist reporting from the frontlines in Ukraine as a war correspondent for Byline Times (UK). She has contributed to BBC News, CBC Radio, Voice of America, TVP World, The Sunday Post, Times of India, and more. In 2023, she co-produced and starred in the award-winning documentary Under the Deadly Skies, exposing Russian war crimes. Her literary work has appeared in The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Longreads, Guernica, Rumpus, and other publications, earning honors such as the 2013 Acker Award. She is a member of Pen America. Born in the USSR and having spent most of her life in San Francisco, she moved to Ukraine following the full-scale Russian invasion. Her latest film, Kherson: Human Safari, is screening globally and can be viewed here.
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