Demystifying Media At The University Of Oregon

Jake Swantko is the director of photography and documentary producer behind the much acclaimed film Icarus, which won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Orwell Award for revealing “the truth at a time when the truth is no longer a commodity.” His new film, The Dissident, about slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2020. In this talk, Swantko delivers a masterclass on documentary storytelling. Audience questions have been cut from the Q&A portion of Jake's lecture, but his responses to those questions are included in this recording. About our guest: Jake Swantko has worked on a number of films, shooting for the Associated Press, ESPN, HBO, National Geographic, PBS Frontline, Time Magazine, Passion Pictures, and Nike. He is a 2011 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. As director of photography, he has shown three films at Sundance: Entrapped (2016), Icarus (2017), and The Dissident