Winner: Best Documentary Audience Award & Desert Views Award!
Guest expected on January 7 and January 8
Film Festival 2025
The heroic efforts of zookeepers and volunteers to rescue 5,000 animals under Russian bombardment from the Feldman Ecopark in Ukraine during the early days of the war are recounted in this edge-of-your-seat document. It is both a harrowing and uplifting testament to courage under fire.
Congratulations to the Checkpoint Zoo team on receiving the Desert Views Award at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival!
Congratulations to the Checkpoint Zoo team on receiving the Desert Views Award at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival!
film details
| Director: | Joshua Zeman |
| Producers: | Zachary Mortensen, Joshua Zeman, Ian Davies, Torquil Jones |
| Screenwriter: | Joshua Zeman, Daniel Lonsbury |
| Cinematographers: | Nelson Hume, Olivier Sarbil |
| Editor: | Cy Christiansen, Andrew Ford, Kelly Kendrick, Daniel Lonsbury |
| Music: | Anne Nikitin |
| Cast: | Oleksandr Feldman, Vadym Vorotynskyy, Vitalii Ilchenko, Svitlana Vyshnevetska, Andrii Tyvaniuk, Vitalii Sevelin |
| Country: | USA/Ukraine |
| Language: | In Ukrainian and English, Russian with English subtitles |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Running Time: | 109 minutes |
| Director Filmography: | The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 (2021), Killer Legends (2014), The Best Man for the Job (2011), Cropsey (2009) |
| Awards: | 2nd Place Audience Award, Tribeca Film Festival |
| Primary Company: | Ghost Robot |
| Contact Email: | zoo@ghostrobot.com |
| Website: | https://ghostrobot.com/work/checkpoint-zoo |