Russia's invasion inspired music videos created independently by a San Diego couple and a North County film director/songwriter to encourage support of Ukraine and its refugees.
, to contact musicians, composers and recording technicians in various countries to work remotely to transform his poem into a music video. He engaged singer Wes Lunsford to deliver the words in a style that combines Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
“My husband surprised me by entering our video in multiple film festivals,” Whitten says. “He didn’t tell me until after we won one.” On March 2, for the first time, they viewed it on the big screen. Then they participated in an audience Q & A on how their project came together and what they hoped to accomplish.
The couple dedicated the award to their recording producer whose father, a doctor working in a hospital in Mariupol, was killed, along with patients, by Russian troops. Granston was discussing the video with him remotely when the news came of his dad’s death.
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