EXCLUSIVE: Sean Penn-starring Ukrainian anthology film Struggle Via the Eyes of Animals has wrapped capturing in LA and extra particulars have emerged about Penn’s involvement.
The film is instructed in 9 components and shines a highlight on animals affected by ecocide as a result of struggle in Ukraine, which has been raging for almost two years. Filming just lately wrapped in LA and a second part will start in Ukraine shortly.
Penn stars within the ultimate story titled ‘The Eagle’, written and filmed by famend director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (The Tribe), which pays tribute to a Ukrainian nature reserve round Chernobyl ravaged by struggle. It incorporates a recording of uncommon fowl voices in a nationwide reserve, the place a younger sound engineer has ventured on the request of a overseas producer. The engineer is then interrupted by the sudden outbreak of struggle.
“It was a pleasure to collaborate with a worldwide cinema legend and one of many best actors of our time,” mentioned Slaboshpytskyi, with Penn’s scenes now within the can. “His professionalism and dedication left me in absolute awe. Working with Penn on set was a massively impactful expertise as a director, and a real celebration of creativity.”
Penn has been one of the vital outstanding anti-war voices in Hollywood. He has met President Volodymyr Zelensky a number of occasions and co-directed a documentary about him, Superpower, which was initially deliberate earlier than the struggle broke out.
Ukrainian outfits SOTA Cinema Group and Kleos Artwork Productions began rolling cameras final 12 months on Struggle Via the Eyes of Animals and the primary three tales have been titled ‘The Rabbit, Or There and Again Once more’, ‘The Sonny’ and ‘The Cow within the Fog’. All of the tales on this anthology are drawn from actual occasions, underscoring that environmental disasters transcend state borders.
Movie.UA and Pink Arrow Studios Worldwide’s Ukrainian anthology TV sequence These Who Stayed, which tells tales of people that have remained throughout the struggle, has offered to a wealth of territories.
