Trust Helped ‘Dissident’ DP Jake Swantko Frame Documentary About the Murder of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCinematographer and producer Jake Swantko had to move quickly if he and director Bryan Fogel wanted to dive into the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist who was captured, killed and dismembered at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.The story was still moving as Fogel and Swantko were starting to think about following the scandal for the documentary that became “The Dissident,” now available on demand and in select theaters. “It started with a two-camera package and a one-man band shooting those important scenes where people were living in the moment of what was happening,” Swantko explains.Barely a week before, Swantko had been on vacation in Italy, but the story of murder, power,.
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