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Aaron Kaufman Dies: Emmy-Nominated ‘Superpower’ Director Was 51
Aaron Kaufman, the Emmy-nominated director behind 'Superpower,' Sean Penn's doc about the Ukraine-Russia war, has died at the age of 51.
What began as an aim to track Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s rise from popular comedian-actor to a prominent political leader transitioned to a war doc in the aftermath of Russia’s campaign launched in 2022, when Kaufman was on the ground as a filmmaker. Speaking to the one-year anniversary of the conflict’s beginning at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, Kaufman said, “It seems obvious that the stakes are not between Russia and Ukraine. Also part of Kaufman’s filmography is the Vice Studios documentary Crusaders, about sexual abuse within the Jehovah’s Witness community.
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