Film About International Peace Mediators Up Next for Director of ‘Behind the Headlines’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Ed Meza @edmezavar“Behind the Headlines,” Daniel Andreas Sager’s thrilling look at how German investigative journalists triggered a political earthquake in Austria that toppled the country’s government, is having its world premiere at Danish doc fest CPH:DOX, where it’s competing for the Fact Award, before unspooling at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival and opening next month’s DOK.fest München.Sager is now at work on his next documentary project, a film that will accompany international peace mediators, workers and analysts from the battlefield to the European Parliament and UN Security Council.“Behind the Headlines” focuses on two main protagonists, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier of German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung — the