325. Tetyana Denford - 20 Days in Mariupol Documents the Struggle of People in a Beseiged Ukrainian City.

Guest: Tetyana Denford (Бісик) Ukrainian author - ‘Child of Ukraine’ & ‘The Soldier’s Child’. Translator, ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ and ‘Battle for Ukraine’. Writing courses on Substack. YouTube host. As the Russian invasion began, a team of Ukrainian journalists were trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol. The searing and harrowing film 20 Days in Mariupol documents their struggle to continue working to record the war's atrocities, under the brutal assault of Russia’s army. ---------- ABOUT: Tetyana Denford is a Ukrainian-American fiction author, translator for Frontline PBS, freelance writer as well as YouTube channel host with a 20+ year history of working in the writing and editing world. Her first novel, self-published in 2020 as 'Motherland' has been re-published in July 2022 with the team at Hachette/Bookouture as 'The Child of Ukraine'. It reached #1 on the Amazon New Release list. Tetyana used to write freelance for Elle and Vogue, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Paris Review, Flock Magazine, and Medium. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/tetyanaukrainka https://www.linkedin.com/in/tetyana-denford/ https://20daysinmariupol.com/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/20-days-in-mariupol/ ARTICLES: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/07/20-days-in-mariupol-review-a-gruelling-documentary-of-life-inside-the-besieged-ukrainian-city ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.