When a friend in Kyiv called Israeli-American filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky in November 2013 and convinced him to drop everything and take his cameras to Ukraine because 'something was happening' there, he had no idea what he was getting himself into, let alone that it would lead to an Oscar nomination.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Winter on fire blazes Oscar trail with gripping account of Ukraine’s Maidan moment
Protesters clash with riot police at the Viktor Yanukovych presidential office in Kyiv during Euromaidan revolution of 'dignity' on December 10, 2013.
