So I just booked a ticket to Rome and hoped I would get any kind of ability to film with him,” he says. “Rustem is a Crimean Tatar who’s Muslim, and I just felt like here’s a Jewish president (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) sending a Muslim guy to meet the Pope, this is crazy, I gotta go with you. 24 2022, Amer was introduced to peace negotiator (and Ukraine’s incoming defence minister) Rustem Umerov, then on his way to meet the Pope with the hope of getting his support. “The stakes are so high, because it’s the largest conflict we’ve seen since WWII and anything could happen,” says Amer, who swapped his producer hat for director, teaming up with longtime producer Mike Lerner ( The Square, Hell and Back Again) and Odessa Rae, a newly-minted Oscar-winner for Navalny.Īccess is absolute key for a film like Defiant, which started moving when, not long after Russia launched its invasion on Feb. 9 and capturing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the unique perspective of key decision makers in Kiev - including minister of foreign affairs Dmytro Kuleba - politicians suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into a wartime government.įive Can't-Miss Movies at the 2023 Oldenburg Film Festival In the Oscar-nominated documentary The Square - which he produced - footage of the chaos and carnage in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011 helped offer an uniquely immersive account of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.īut nothing he’d made previously compares to Defiant, premiering in Toronto on Sep. Karim Amer has made documentaries about seismic geopolitical events as they unfolded before.
0 kommentar(er)
