It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

You know, today is the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It was February 24th,

2022. And so appropriately for the day, I think, we continue with our annual series with the makers

of the five feature-length documentaries up for an Oscar. As I always say, there's plenty of

celebrating the actors and directors and other

artists who contribute to arts and entertainment films, as there should be. But on this show,

we spend time with the nominated documentaries. And today we're joined by David Bornstein,

documentary filmmaker of the Oscar-nominated film, Mr. Nobody Against Putin.

And this documentary takes us back to the very beginning of the war.

It's told from the perspective of a school videographer in a small industrial town in Russia.

Using his footage and we'll play some clips, it chronicles how Russian propaganda

was taught to Russia's youth. Mr. Nobody Against Putin won for Best Documentary at the British Academy

Film Awards, the BAFTA, very prestigious BAFTA awards, if you don't know BAFTA, on Sunday.

David, welcome to WNYC, and congratulations on the Academy Award nomination.

Hi, Brian.

Thank you for having me here.

So I'll tell the listeners your documentary, Jaws on Footage filmed by Pavel Talanquin,

a videographer at a school in the industrial town of Carabash. I'll play a clip from the film that

describes the town itself in a minute. But first tell everybody about Pavel who goes by the nickname

Pasha. Well, Pasha four years ago was a small town teacher. He's from Karabash, a town of

8,000 people. He was the teacher, an event organizer of that

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