Director Mike Dorsey and Executive Producer Steven Campos held an exclusive screening of the documentary Sisters of Ukraine at the Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood on the evening of December 12, 2025. Joining Dorsey and Campos were the film’s “stars” at the special event were Mother Maria Cristiana Demianczuk and Sister Maria Provydinnia, who traveled from Ukraine, and Eduardo Llop,
who traveled from Barcelona, as well as cinematographers Terence Prattand Jacopo Campaiola.
Prior to the screening was a special performance of the Ukrainian Russian song Bird of Happiness by music artist Marina V.
A special Q&A session moderated by Golden Globes member Lena Basse was held after the screening, followed by a cocktail reception.
In the film, volunteers from Barcelona travel to Ukraine to work with nuns aiding refugees following the Russian invasion. As missile attacks surge, they take a group of three-dozen Ukrainians on a three-day journey across Europe to housing in Spain.
Guests in attendance included United States Congressman Jim Costa, E! founder Larry Namer, actress Irina Dubova (The Perfect Couple), actress Eve Richards, actress Callie Rose Deets, Olga Popel of the Ukrainian Cultural Center, Nicole Goesseringer Muj, the Honorary Consul General of Sweden in Los Angeles Gudrun Giddings, as well as many dignitaries, and representatives from the media and entertainment industry.
“Every day and every night, the people of Ukraine, its children, are subject to unconditional bombing taking place by Russia. When February 24th, 2022 began the invasion, it was very clear for people here in this country and around the world, [that]it was about good versus evil. And today it is still about good versus evil. And therefore, it’s incumbent upon all of us to be together on behalf and support the people of Ukraine,” comments Congressman Costa.
He adds, “I’m honored to be a part of this evening and the documentary and for those of you who’ve not seen it, I’ve seen it twice, it is moving and it brings it all home. These Ukrainian children that the sisters have done so much for and still have such plans for when this war is over. It must end sooner than later, so that we can begin to rebuild for a new Ukraine and for a world that is peaceful and that stands for its children and for the future.”
The film is distributed by Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, and is available now to rent/own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms, as well as on DVD.
Directed by acclaimed documentarian Mike Dorsey, Sisters of Ukraine traces the journey of volunteers and nuns who bring a group of Ukrainian refugees on a three-day journey across Europe to housing in Spain. Two volunteers from an aid organization in Barcelona travel to a convent in western Ukraine where nuns are helping refugees following the Russian invasion. They spend three days living in the convent and helping the nuns care for local refugees who have fled eastern Ukraine, including a mother with eight children and an elderly woman who survived a missile attack on the train station in Kramatorsk that killed 60 civilians. But following the bombing of the Kerch Bridge in Crimea, the mission to bring Ukrainians to refugee housing in Spain is thrown into doubt as all of Ukraine is put under lockdown while Russia fires over 80 missiles at the country in retaliation. After a delay, the volunteers take a group of three-dozen refugees and families of soldiers fighting in the war on a three-day journey by land across Europe to housing near Barcelona.
Directed by Mike Dorsey (Lost Airmen of Buchenwald, Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders) Sisters of Ukraine is a war documentary about the lives behind the front lines; the lives Ukraine’s soldiers are fighting to protect,” said filmmaker Mike Dorsey. “The 2,500-mile, three-day journey by land out of Ukraine and across Europe with a group of three-dozen refugees and families of soldiers fighting in the war, into the welcoming arms of an aid organization in Spain, is the film’s emotional payoff. But what my crew and I will never forget is witnessing these incredibly brave young nuns, led by Mother Cristiana, who have already dedicated their lives to the service of others, face the greatest challenge of their lives. Sisters of Ukraine captures their courageous spirit.”
website: www.sistersofukraine.com
Photos by Tshombe Sampson
