Speaker Simon Ostrovsky
You are not currently viewing the most recent Realscreen Summit. Go to Realscreen Summit 2025.
Simon Ostrovsky is a Soviet-born American-Israeli documentary filmmaker and journalist at CNN. He is known for his coverage of the 2014 crisis in Ukraine for VICE News and for Selfie Soldiers, a 2015 documentary in which he re-enacted a Russian soldier's social media posts to track him to Ukraine. He was briefly held hostage by pro-Russia militants there in April 2014. Ostrovsky won an Emmy Award in 2013 for his work with VICE.
Speaking on: To Tell the Truth: The Intersection of Non-Fiction and News
