Flashpoint: Protests, Policing and Press

Editor + Camera // 25m // 2023

The film features the stories of several journalists who were assaulted or arrested while reporting at protests and explores the conflict and tension experienced on the front lines, the changing role of the press, and the hardening of attitudes among the police towards journalists.

I edited this film over the course of several months in early 2023. We also used footage from my archives from 2016 - 2022, from elections and protests in Washington D.C., NYC and Minneapolis.

Directed by Max Esposito and Produced by Daisy Schmitt.

Commissioned by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.