Brent Renaud

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Brent Renaud
Born (1971-10-13)October 13, 1971
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
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Irpin, Ukraine
Cause of death Gunshot wounds during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • filmmaker
Awards Peabody Award (2015)

Brent Anthony Renaud (October 13, 1971 – March 13, 2022) was an American journalist, writer, documentary filmmaker, and photojournalist. Renaud worked with his brother Craig to produce films for outlets such as HBO and Vice News, and he was a former contributor to the The New York Times. Renaud was killed on March 13, 2022 by Russian soldiers while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a suburb near Kyiv.[1]

Life and career

Renaud was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas.[2] He lived and worked in Little Rock and New York City.[3][4] In cooperation with his brother Craig, Brent Renaud produced a series of films and television programs, mostly focusing on humanistic stories from the world's hot spots.[4] From 2004 to 2005, the Renaud brothers filmed the Discovery Channel series "Off to War." It covered Arkansas reservist in the Iraqi conflict and their families.[5][6]

The brothers also covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the political crises in Egypt and Libya, conflicts in Africa, Mexican drug war, and the refugee crisis in Central America.[4] They won several awards in television and journalism, including a Peabody Award in 2015 for their video series "Last Chance High."[7] The brothers directed the documentary Meth Storm, released in 2017 by HBO Documentary Films.[8] In 2019, Renaud was appointed as a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas.[9] Renaud was a 2019 Nieman Fellow.[3] Together with his brother, he was a grantee of the Pulitzer Center;[10] they also founded the Little Rock Film Festival.[11]

Death

Renaud was shot and killed by Russian soldiers in Irpin, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, while covering the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][12] Two other journalists were injured and taken to a hospital. One of them, Juan Arredondo, later tweeted that the group of journalists were filming civilians evacuating through one of the bridges in Irpin, when the Russian soldiers targeted them and shot Renaud in his neck.[13]

It was the first reported death of a foreign journalist in the 2022 war in Ukraine.[14]

Filmography

References

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External links

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