Just hours after Deadline reported that Netflix is pausing all of its production and acquisitions work in Russia, the company’s co-founder, chairman and co-CEO Reed Hastings announced a $1 million donation to an organization providing emergency relief to Ukraine.“$1m donation on the way for emergency relief to Razom,” wrote the Netflix exec, “thanks to @evgeny_director.
Every dollar helps.”$1m donation on the way for emergency relief to Razom, thanks to @evgeny_director. Every dollar helps.— Reed Hastings (@reedhastings) March 2, 2022“@evgeny_director” is Russian-born Evgeny Afineevsky, who directed the Oscar-nominated documentary Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom for Netflix in 2015.
The film documents the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014 as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F.
Yanukovich, an movement that is not unrelated to the Russian invasion and the stiff resistance it now faces.“These people will not be slaves.
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