Trek to Bucha - Premiere

One month into Russia’s war on Ukraine, guerilla documentarian Steve Richards began a month-long journey to gather stories from a place where citizens endured Russian tanks, snipers, and unfathomable atrocities. A place where shelled homes, bombed businesses, and lost jobs, are the result of artillery bombardments opening up on their neighborhoods. Stories about people like us caught in a war few imagined - in a town they love, in a country they find unexpectedly united. ​Trek to Bucha is their story.

From Boston, to Warsaw, to Lviv, to Kyiv, to Bucha, we get a real look at what was really happening really happening a month into the war, almost like being there in person.

Much is being asked of people in the west to support Ukraine. Especially in terms of higher food and gas prices, and the billions in aid that will be needed to continue to keep up the fight. Unfortunately, war fatigue is already setting in.

​We hope this production will help further this moral and real support that is so vital - and to let Ukrainians know that America stands by them. Because they are in the same position America’s Minutemen were some 250 years ago when the first shots at Lexington and Concord changed the world.

Shot in 4k Richards documented what he found. All interviews were conducted in English since many in Ukraine speak it well. We already have a rough-cut trailer and production is finished. Now we are editing the film and adding elements to make it the engaging film it needs to be on September 11th!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church, 146 Forest Hills Street, Boston, United States