EXCLUSIVE: The DGA, Primetime Emmy, and Peabody-winning director, producer, and actor Ben Stiller (Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost) , and Oscar-winning producing partner John Lesher ( Birdman ) have joined dissident Russian short film Extremist as executive producers.

The award-winning work by Russian-American director Alexander Molochnikov – which is a contender in the live action short category of the 98th Academy Awards – was shot in Europe with a Russian cast and crew, many of whom are living in exile for their safety.

They include three-time Camerimage-winning cinematographer Mikhail Krichman, the long-time collaborator of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s on Leviathan and Loveless, with other credits including The End and Vermiglio , who left Russia in 2022.

The short is

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