Netflix’s Reed Hastings Announces $1M Donation To Ukraine Emergency Relief Organization
03.03.2022 - 04:53
/ deadline.com
Just hours after Deadline reported that Netflix is pausing all of its production and acquisitions work in Russia, the company’s co-founder, chairman and co-CEO Reed Hastings announced a $1 million donation to an organization providing emergency relief to Ukraine.
“$1m donation on the way for emergency relief to Razom,” wrote the Netflix exec, “thanks to @evgeny_director. Every dollar helps.”
$1m donation on the way for emergency relief to Razom, thanks to @evgeny_director. Every dollar helps.
— Reed Hastings (@reedhastings) March 2, 2022
“@evgeny_director” is Russian-born Evgeny Afineevsky, who directed the Oscar-nominated documentary Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom for Netflix in 2015. The film documents the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014 as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich, an movement that is not unrelated to the Russian invasion and the stiff resistance it now faces.
“These people will not be slaves. They will not go back into the former Soviet Union,” Afineevsky told Deadline last weel. “They have a taste of freedom. They became a part of the European society, and they wanted to go a completely different direction [than Moscow]. That’s the direction that they are fighting toward since Maidan…Believing in their freedom, believing in the freedom for the future of their own kids, it just proves that these people will not put their weapons down. They will be fighting until the last drop of blood.”
The Ukrainian Revolution prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to seize Crimea in 2014 and then to foment revolt in Ukraine’s eastern provinces next to the Russian border. Putin declared those
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