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News about Escape

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May 1, 2024
Oksana Mysina's film Escape is named a Finalist at the Leda's Monologues Film Festival in Greece. Awards to be announced later.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

December 26, 2023
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sana Mysina's film Escape is named a Finalist in the Films on Women category at The Swedish Academy of Motion Picture Awards.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's film Escape was selected for inclusion in the New York Human Rights Film Festival. The film will be screened Dec. 15 at 12:30 pm at at the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, NY.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
Oksana Mysina at NewsFest in Santa Monica, Nov. 2023.
Oksana Mysina and others at NewsFest in Santa Monica, Nov. 2023.
Oksana Mysina and others at NewsFest in Santa Monica, Nov. 2023.

Oksana Mysina, John Freedman and John's sister Margie Judd and Tina Rademker following the award ceremony of the NewsFest and Ethos Film Awards in Santa Monica, CA, on November 17, 2023.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's short film Escape made a clean sweep at the NewsFest and Ethos Film Awards on November 17, 2023, taking home top prizes in all three categories in which it was nominated - 1) Most Impactful Film, 2) Best International Film over 15 Minutes, and 3) Best International Trailer.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Escape was named an Award Nominee in three categories at the NewsFest (true stories) Festival in Santa Monica on October 12, 2023. 1) BEST INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSION, OVER 15 MINUTES, 2) BEST TRAILER (INTERNATIONAL), 3) MOST IMPACTFUL

Escape was named an Award Winner at the Experimental Awards International Film Festival in London on October 11, 2023.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Escape was named an Official Selection at the Experimental Awards International Film Festival in London on August 27, 2023.

Escape was named a Finalist at the Independent Film Awards in Leeds, UK, on August 20, 2023.

Escape was named an Official Selection at the New York Istanbul Short Film Festival in India on June 14, 2023.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Escape was given a Special Jury Awards as Best Documentary Short Film at the Mayavaram International Film Festival in India on May 28, 2023.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Escape was named an Official Selection at the Mayavaram International Film Festival in India on May 26, 2023.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

On May 23 we learned in quick succession that Oksana Mysina's short Escape had been named an Official Selection, and then a Finalist at the Goldspire International Film Festival in Paris. On May 24 the news came that the film had been named the competition's Best Emotional Film (of any length).

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's film Escape was named an official selection at the NewsFest film festival in Pasadena, California, on May 9, 2023. The festival will be held in October.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

As the Festival de Indie website put it on May 1, 2023 - "Escape bagged three awards from fourth week competition...": 1) Best Documentary, 2) Best Original Score [Sergei Kuchmenko - the second such award Sergei has received this week, the other at the Flowers Against Bullets fest in Vienna being for his work on Love is Stronger than Fear], and 3) the Critics Award for Documentary Filmmaker [Oksana Mysina]. 

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Laurel for the RED CROSS prize, awarded to Oksana Mysina's film Escape at the Flowers Against Bullets film festival in Vienna, Austria. The RED CROSS is the festival's main award, given to the film that, according to the festival site, "is able to tell about the consequences of war better than the others."

Oksana Mysina's film Escape won the top Red Cross prize at the Flowers Against Bullets festival in Vienna, Austria, on April 26, 2023. Music composed by Sergei Kuchmenko. (Another of Oksana's films,  Love is Stronger than Fear, a short version of Voices of the New Belarus, won Best Music Score.)

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's short documentary, Escape, was named an official selection of the Your Way film festival on the island of Malta, on April 26, 2023. 

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's short documentary, Escape, was named an official selection of the Flowers Against Bullets film festival in Vienna, Austria, on April 25, 2023. 

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"
An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's short documentary, Escape, was named an official selection of the Festival de Indie in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, on April 25, 2023. 

Screening of Oksana Mysina's film "Escape" in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Oksana Mysina's film, Escape, hosted by the Danail Chirpansky International Student Film Festival, was screened at the Bulgarian National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 22, 2023. 

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's film, Escape, about a the flight of a refugee family from Ukraine, was named an Official Selection in the Dispatches of War Film Festival in Kyiv on March 20, 2023. 

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's film, Escape, about a the flight of a refugee family from Ukraine, was named an Official Selection in the Symbiotic Film Festival in Kyiv on March 12, 2023. 

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Oksana Mysina's film, Escape, about a the flight of a refugee family from Ukraine as Russia's army advances on their home, was named a Finalist in the New York Istanbul Short Film Festival on February 8, 2023. 

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

Grand Prix winner's diploma for Oksana Mysina's film, Escape, at the 14th Atlantis International Internet Short Film Festival in New York City, January 2023.

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

On January 5, 2023, Oksana Mysina's film, Escape, was named winner of the Grand Prix at the ATLANTIS 14th Independent International Internet Short Film Festival in a joint prize with Mysina's film Love is Stronger than Fear in the combined CINEMA AGAINST WAR and CINEMA FOR RIGHTS/HUMAN FREEDOMS categories. 

An award for Oksana Mysina's film "Escape"

The new poster for Escape.

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