Face-ID database built — 10 characters confirmed.

• Dr. Andrii Sirko — Head of Cerebral Neurosurgery, Mechnikov
• Dr. Bohdan Sirko — Neurosurgeon (Andrii’s son)
• Tetiana Sirko — Andrii’s wife
• Oleksandra “Sasha/Kate” — Bohdan’s girlfriend (4 ref encodings)
• Dr. Antoniy Nakaznyi — Neurosurgeon (Mariupol survivor)
• Dr. Mykhailo “Misha” Fidria — Surgical intern
• Dr. Rostyslav Malyi — Neurosurgeon
• Dir. Serhiy Ryzhenko — General Director, Mechnikov
• Dr. Svitlana Vitalieva — ENT Physician
• Anatoliy Chudnovsky — Patient (excavator operator, Zaporizhzhia)

Audio speaker ID cross-referenced with DJI Mic 2/3 TX transmitter logs. LAV channels 01-04 mapped. Source of truth: DLF CIMA - SIRKO 2025 drive. 15 reference encodings built from stills.

Paper cut assembly in progress. Full pipeline: Whisper transcription → confidence filter → Claude translation → validation → proxy gen → LUT → burn-in → Frame.IO. Both 2025 and 2026 SHOOT batches queued.

Target runtime: ~98 min. Structure anchored on Mechnikov arrival → surgeon profiles → war proximity thread. Bohdan’s rocket strike as structural centerpiece. “When I opened my eyes, I was thinking, OK, maybe I’m dead.”

Scene indexing: 30+ archival sub-collections. Categories include: Euromaidan, Budapest Memorandum, Mariupol, Dnipro strikes (Nov 2024 & 2025), field hospital Iraq (Rocco), Dallas Cowboys crossover, Zelensky at Mechnikov, Kievan Rus, Repin paintings, Oreshnik missile, Ukrainian music.

243 sizzle frames extracted. Key production stills: Bohdan at Dnipro River, Alex walking to Mechnikov, Day 6 farewell toast, opening sequence, Andrii & Bohdan together, Soviet block establishing, tank exterior, Mechnikov from window, LA pre-trip.

Air raid moments catalogued. Scrubbing all 2,847 clips for siren occurrences. Cross-referencing DJI mic TX timestamps for multi-angle coverage. Oreshnik missile strike footage in separate archival collection.

Primary event: Bohdan mid-surgery rocket strike. Multiple audio sources captured blast + aftermath. Scanning Mechnikov exterior angles — window view and embankment view available during active strikes.