8-27th of October
The national premiere of “Zero Zone” (dir. Mark Hammond) will take place during the “Inconvenient Films” festival and will invite people with different needs from different communities to experience the film together.
Film “Zero Zone” is about the wounds that war leaves on a country and its people. Russian aggression is not only directed at soldiers, but often, by the most brutal means, also at civilians. But even when left among the rubble, even when physically broken, local people refuse to surrender. From the deserted towns to the trenches of the frontline, the film captures a country willing to make sacrifices not only because it wants to survive, but also because it wants to be free.
Premiere screening will take place on 23rd of October at the Forum Cinemas Vingis in Vilnius.
You are also welcome to meet the director and producer Andriy Suyarko from Ukraine after the screening on 25th of October in Klaipėda, at the cinema “Arlekinas”.
Mark Hammond
Since attending NYU Film School, Mark Hammond has worked as a director, producer and writer of film and television for the past 30 years. Mr. Hammond has extensive experience in putting together international co-productions including the feature documentaries: “The Silent Invasion”, (1989); “Mini-Dragons”, (1993); “In No Uncertain Terms”, (1996); “Pharmacide” (2012); “Red, Blue, Deport” (2022); “Zero Zone” (2023). From 2008–2018 Mr. Hammond worked as a director for the World Health Organization producing documentaries on an array of public health issues, migrant labor, fake medicine, and the challenges of containing and treating various tropical diseases. Production partners included WHO (wpro), WHO (searo), USAID, Kenan Foundation, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jacques Chirac Foundation, US Pharmacopeia, Meta-House, et al.
Mr. Hammond co-produced the Jamaican feature film production “One Love” (2003), a romantic drama starring Bob Marley’s son, Ky-Mani Marley. He also produced the multiple award-winning short films, such as “Driving Fish and Waves”, a UK/Italian co-production starring Peter Mullen and Lorenza Indovina. He also produced “L’Amour Caché”, a French-language feature starring Isabelle Huppert and Greta Scacchi, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. More recently he completed “The Traitor” (2017), a 1971-set political thriller filmed on location in Ukraine.