Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth World
by
Hans Pool
Hashtag #SpeakingTheTruth
Investigative journalism from your own living room? The passionate, independent citizen journalists of the “Bellingcat” collective show how it is done. In times of fake news, alternative facts and reduced resources in the established media houses, they are a self-organised “open source” group of reporters that uses the dormant information potential of social media feeds and other remote corners of the Internet. Their methods hence significantly contributed to the elucidation of the MH17 disaster or the poison attack on the British double agent Sergei Skripal. In the form of a tense documentary thriller, director Hans Pool shows the elaborate path taken by a few devoted autodidacts in the assumption of their role as a global fourth power.
- Genre: DOC: Social Interest & Politics
- Country, Year: Netherlands, 2018
- Runtime: 88 Min
- Languages: English, German, Dutch, Russian, Arabic
- Subtitles: English
- Director: Hans Pool
- Cast: Eliot Higgins, Timmi Allen, Veli-Pekka Kivimäki, Aric Toler, Hadi Al-Khatib, Christiaan Triebert
- Screenplay: Hans Pool
- Cinematography: Hans Pool
- Editor: Simon Barker
- Sound: Pepijn Aben
- Music: Frank Wienk (Binkbeats)
- Producers: Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix, Nick Fraser
- Production Companies: Submarine Film, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)
- World Sales: Cinephil
