Review‘The Killing of a Journalist’ on the 2018 murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina is an exposé on a democracy that had rotted from the inside, controlled by a nexus of oligarchs and people on their payroll.As an investigative reporter and the lead narrator of The Killing of a Journalist on the 2018 brutal murder of her colleague Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová in Slovakia, every pixel in the film would have by now been hardwired into Pavla Holcová’s memories. Yet the Czech journalist sat with her head slightly tilted to the left gazing intently at the screen as the 100-minute film had its India premiere at the Ems Hall in Kochi, Kerala, on the morning of Sunday, March 26. Packed with CCTV footage, archived pressers, police testimonies, interviews, and incriminating details from several terabytes of a data dump that was leaked to the journalists investigating the double murder,...
- 3/28/2023
- by AjayR
- The News Minute
The Slovak documentarian has finished her first feature-length offering, which will bow at the upcoming Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Slovak filmmaker Lucia Kašová has finished her feature-length documentary debut, The Sailor. Kašová previously shot several short documentaries, including Concrete Times (2018) and Mother.Gabrielle.Television (2018), and gained wider recognition after helming an episode of the television cycle Expremiéri (Former PMs), which revolved around Robert Fico, who stepped down as Pm after the murder of a journalist (read more here). Kašová noted that she started studying at a film school in order to make The Sailor. The film is inspired by her encounter with so-called sea Gypsies on the Caribbean islands. “These people threw away their passports and didn’t carry a flag from their home country; the sea was their nationality, religion and companion,” she explains, adding that the film originally started off as a portrait of the community.
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