Canadian director Daniel Roher won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for Navalny, which examined Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s poisoning.
“I would like to dedicate this award to Navalny, to all political prisoners around the world,” said Roher, of Toronto, in a Sunday video.
“Alexei, the world has not forgotten your vital message to us all: We cannot, we must not be afraid to oppose dictators and authoritarianism wherever it rears its head.”
"Alexei, the world has not forgotten your vital message to us all: We cannot, we must not be afraid to oppose dictators and authoritarianism wherever it rears its head."“Navalny” wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.#Oscarshttps://t.co/OizA2V1EITpic.twitter.com/XKW3M1wJjR
The video starts off with Roher thanking the Oscars for the award. He said he was humbled to be in the company of a group of extraordinary documentary filmmakers.
The director went on to say he was thankful to every one who helped make Navalny. He said their courage made this movie possible.
Roher praised Bellingcat journalist Christo Grozev. He said Grozev “risked everything to tell this story, and it’s investigate journalists like you and Maria Pevchikh that empower our work.”
After thanking the journalists, he turns to Navalny’s family and acknowledged them. He said the one person who could not be at the Oscars onstage with him is Navalny.
“Alexei Navalny remains in solitary confinement for what he calls, I want to make sure we get his words exactly right, Vladimir Putin’s unjust war of aggression in Ukraine,” he said.
He invited Navalny’s wife Yulia to make some remarks. Yulia thanked the attendees and him.
She said her husband is “in prison just for telling the truth.” She added he is imprisoned for defending democracy.
“Alexei, I am dreaming of the day when you will be free and our country will be free,” she said.
“Stay strong, my love.”
Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent and hospitalized in serious condition in 2020.
He was evacuated to Germany for medical treatment. He blamed Putin for being behind the poisoning.
Upon returning from Germany to Russia, he was detained at Sheremetyevo International Airport. He was ordered to spend two-and-a-half years at a prison colony.
Jonathan Bradley is a Reporter for the Western Standard & Alberta Report. Bradley has contributed stories to the National Post, True North, and Canadaland. He obtained a master's degree in media production at Toronto Metropolitan University.
The engine is only as good as the guy who rebuilds it and the “Doc” is only as good as the person who makes it, all depending on their political leanings. This “Doc” is probably propaganda as this guy sounds like a leftist. Where’s the Doc on the dealings of the Biden crime family in Ukraine. Let’s face it. If Putin wasn’t in charge, Russia would be a complete progressive fascistic $h-t hole right now run by the likes of the Democrats and the Liberals, lying to people while stuffing their own bank accounts.
Regardless of potential relevance, the Oscars are simply a group of self selected people somehow believing in their own self entitlement and relevance in assessing the quality/achievement of another group whose primary achievement is to lie convincingly.
This may explain the number of actors who become politicians.
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More NATO propaganda, woopee
Hollywood's contribution to America's war on Russia. Ukrainians die but Hollywood made film! Wowee.
The engine is only as good as the guy who rebuilds it and the “Doc” is only as good as the person who makes it, all depending on their political leanings. This “Doc” is probably propaganda as this guy sounds like a leftist. Where’s the Doc on the dealings of the Biden crime family in Ukraine. Let’s face it. If Putin wasn’t in charge, Russia would be a complete progressive fascistic $h-t hole right now run by the likes of the Democrats and the Liberals, lying to people while stuffing their own bank accounts.
Regardless of potential relevance, the Oscars are simply a group of self selected people somehow believing in their own self entitlement and relevance in assessing the quality/achievement of another group whose primary achievement is to lie convincingly.
This may explain the number of actors who become politicians.
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