Oscar and BAFTA Nominated Documentary ‘Collective’ Emboldens Whistleblowers, Filmmaker Says
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe parents of one of the victims of the nightclub fire featured in the Romanian documentary “Collective” have spoken of their hope that the film’s Oscar and BAFTA nominations will mean more people know about the scandal, its director Alexander Nanau tells Variety.“They posted a message on Facebook to their son saying: ‘We failed to help you at that time, but we’re so glad that the whole world will see the story, and all we want is that other people understand how things work, and that they will not have to go through the same thing,” he says.The film followed a team of investigative journalists as they tried to find out why so many people died in hospital following the fire, which led them to