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THE KILLING OF A JOURNALIST

23.11.2023

Feature Film Selection/ Denmark, Czechia, USA, 2022, 100’
Details
  • Director: Matt Sarnecki
  • Editing: Janus Billeskov Jansen
  • Cinematography: Anna Smoronova
  • Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen
  • Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
  • Production: Final Cut for Real, OCCRP
  • 2023 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Audience Award
  • 2022 Zurich Film Festival Grand Special Mention Award
  • 2022 Bergen International Film Festival Best Human Rights Documentary

Recap

A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in Slovakia since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret murder case file to the murdered journalist’s colleagues.
Director

Matt Sarnecki

Matt Sarnecki is a journalist, producer and film director at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. He has directed several documentaries broadcast throughout Europe and beyond. His documentary "Killing Pavel", about the murder of investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet, won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal in 2017 and the DIG Award (Italy) in 2018.
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The Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye organises the annual EU Human Rights Film Days on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click here for the list of films.