EPISODE · Mar 31, 2026 · 41 MIN
'My Undesirable Friends' Director Julia Loktev
from Doc Talk: A Deadline and Nō Studios Podcast · host Deadline Hollywood
Filmmaker Julia Loktev joins us to discuss her award-winning documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow, which chronicles the last independent television news source in Russia. The journalists in the film, mostly young women, found themselves treated as enemies of the state for daring to stray outside the bounds of Kremlin-approved reportage, victims of a crackdown on press freedom that only got worse after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Filmmaker Julia Loktev joins us to discuss her award-winning documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow, which chronicles the last independent television news source in Russia. The journalists in the film, mostly young women, found themselves treated as enemies of the state for daring to stray outside the bounds of Kremlin-approved reportage, victims of a crackdown on press freedom that only got worse after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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