WHEN A DOC IS A 'CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY

Chernov says he and his colleagues, the only international journalists left on the ground, were eventually hunted by Russian forces and had to be extricated by a special Ukrainian task force. How did you decide that the footage you were gathering should be a documentary instead of for news broadcasts? I was primarily gathering news footage and making news dispatches for the Associated Press that later were distributed across the world. [...]the Mariupol maternity hospital bombing, I did not realize that the story of Mariupol is so significant, so symbolic and big that it needs to be told in a bigger form. [...]there were several discoveries that were made during the editing, like the conversations when the camera drops down: I'm having a conversation with people around me and I just don't turn off the camera because I'm afraid to miss something.