“Hunger for Truth” The Rhea Clyman Story: a film screening and discussion with Andrew Tkach and Anne Applebaum

Andrew Tkach has produced long-form television programs for more than 25 years, most recently directing 2 documentaries on Ukraine’s tumultuous history. His work spans the globe including films about the traditional hunters in Greenland, child gold miners in Mali, Fukushima’s exclusion zone, Czech Neo Nazi’s attacking the Roma, Irish Clerical sex abuse, Philippine attack on the press, Tibetan & Burmese resistance, Aids in Africa, Gangs in the Americas, Modern day slavery, and much more. Prior to forming his own company, Messy Moment Media, Tkach was the principal long-form producer of Christiane Amanpour for both CNN and CBS 60 Minutes, winning multiple Emmy’s, Duponts and Peabodys for his work. He is currently producing a weekly environmental documentary series in Kenya made by African filmmakers called Giving Nature a Voice. 

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and a visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, where she runs Arena, a project on propaganda and disinformation. She is the author of several books, including "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine," Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and Iron Curtain, which won the 2013 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. Since 1989, her writing has frequently focused on the post-communist transition in Russia and Europe, but she also writes extensively about British, American and European politics. She is a former member of the Washington Post editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine, and a former Warsaw correspondent of The Economist. She has lectured at many other universities, including Yale and Harvard.