What makes a person risk everything to bring out evidence when powerful interests would rather it disappeared? In Steven Leckart's An Unknown Substance, Evgenia Kara-Murza becomes the public voice of her husband, Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, after he is sentenced to 25 years for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. Late at night she transcribes the columns he writes by hand in prison. In Wild East, a Romanian environmentalist faces down threats of violence to document allegedly illegal logging of some of Romania’s last ancient forests for a global conglomerate, and to trace where that wood ends up. (Hint: It's closer than you think.)

1:00 PM – An Unknown Substance (Steven Leckart, 39 min)
1:40 PM – Wild East (Maia Wikler, 39 min)
2:20 PM – Audience talkback