Director of Photography & Colorist
54 min · English, Ukrainian & Russian · English subtitles
February 24, 2022 changed the life of every Ukrainian. As millions moved west, eight Word of Life missionaries stayed: evacuating civilians from cities under fire and carrying food and medicine into Chernihiv when almost nothing else was getting through.
Shot on the ground across Ukraine, this is a film about the people who stay when everyone has a reason to leave.
Free to watch. 54 minutes.
Slava changed my whole career. It was my first international feature, shot in an unfamiliar country, culture, and language, and it's where I fell in love with documentary work. I had been making commercials with a production company; this film is where I realized I wanted to make stories instead. Brooklawn exists because of it.
— Grant Knaus, Director of Photography & Colorist
Directed & edited by Joshua Paulhamus
Unit director Joe Trimble
Director of photography John Grant Knaus
B camera Skyla Pehl
Translator & production assistant Tim Pushkaruk
Producers Joshua Paulhamus, Matias Radziwiluk, Serhiv Korobkin
Executive producer Guillermo Aguilar
Produced by Word of Life Fellowship