Award-winning American filmmaker and journalist Brent Renaud is dead. The deceased was killed in Ukraine on Sunday, March 13th while reporting in a suburb of the capital, Kyiv.
Mr Renaud, 50, had worked for a number of American news and media organizations in the past, including HBO, NBC and The New York Times.
Renaud died in Irpin, a suburb that has been the site of intense shelling by Russian forces in recent days.
At the time of his death, Mr. Renaud was on assignment for Time Studios working on a “project focused on the global refugee crisis,” according to a statement from Time executives.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said in a statement that Mr. Renaud “paid with his life for attempting to expose the insidiousness, cruelty and ruthlessness of the aggressor.”
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Mr. Renaud had contributed to The Times in previous years, most recently in 2015.
“We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death. Brent was a talented filmmaker.” a spokeswoman for The Time Danielle Rhoades Ha says.
Meanwhile, Renaud often worked with his brother, Craig Renaud. The duo won a Peabody award for a Vice News documentary about a school in Chicago. The two have worked on film and television projects from conflict zones and hot spots around the world.
Over the last decade, the brothers also covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the earthquake in Haiti, cartel violence in Mexico, and youth refugees in Central America, according to their website.
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