Putin Assassination Target Christo Grozev on Why Life Has Become Even More Dangerous: ‘The Bad Guys Now Are Seen as Being OK in the U.S.’
variety.comAnnika Pham Investigative journalist Christo Grozev, a key contributor to Oscar-winning documentary “Navalny” and central protagonist of “Antidote,” is one of Vladimir Putin’s most wanted men for having exposed his assassination operations against opponents such as the late Alexei Navalny.
At Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX documentary festival on Tuesday, he spoke about the dangers he is facing. Grozev was part of a panel at the festival that looked at the guts and sacrifice that have to be made to expose truth through filmmaking and news reporting.
He was joined on stage by the director of “Antidote,” Emmy-winning British filmmaker James Jones (“Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”).
With “Antidote,” which won best editing at the last Tribeca Film Festival and screens at CPH:DOX in an updated version, Jones told the audience that his initial idea was to investigate Putin’s poison program with the open source investigation platform Bellingcat with which Grozev was collaborating.
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