Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Brent Renaud, who was shot and killed by Russian forces in Ukraine, is remembered as someone who 'deeply, deeply cared'.
Acclaimed American filmmaker Brent Renaud, who documented conflicts in some of the most dangerous parts of the world, has died after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine.He was documenting the global refugee crisis for TIMEThe 50-year-old from Little Rock, Arkansas, was gathering material for a report about refugees when his vehicle was struck at a checkpoint in Irpin, just outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
Ukraine's Interior Ministry said the area has sustained intense shelling by Russian forces in recent days. Filmmaker and close friend Christof Putzel said Renaud was one of the most respected independent producers of his era, and that he had received a text from Renaud just three days before his death.
Renaud and Putzel won a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University journalism award for Arming the Mexican Cartels, a documentary on how guns trafficked from the United States fuelled rampant drug gang violence."He was just the absolute best war journalist that I know. This is a guy who literally went to every conflict zone.
Arredondo, speaking from a hospital in Kyiv, told Italian journalist Annalisa Camilli that Renaud was hit in the neck."We crossed the first bridge in Irpin, we were going to film other refugees leaving, and we got into a car, somebody offered to take us to the other bridge, we crossed the checkpoint, and they started shooting at us," Arredondo told Camilli.
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