Documentary "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom" received The Grolsch People's Choice Award

Documentary "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom" received The Grolsch People's Choice Award

Publication date: 21/09/2015

Documentary "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom" produced by Netflix, UkrStream.TV, Afineevsky-Tolmor Production and SPN Production received The Grolsch People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Movie trailer:

Chronicling events that unfolded over 93 days in 2013 and 2014, the film witnesses the formation of a new civil rights movement in Ukraine. What started as peaceful student demonstrations supporting European integration morphed into a full-fledged violent revolution calling for the resignation of the nation's president.

Film's director Evgeny Afineevsky thanked the Film Festival team, Thom Powers, TIFF's audience and Ukrainian community of Canada for support and recognizing on his Facebook page: 

 

On behalf of the whole filmmaking team from Maidan and my production team, I want to thank the entire Toronto...

Posted by Evgeny Afineevsky on Sunday, September 20, 2015