Best TV, video or documentary about international affairs with a run time over 30 minutes
AWARD YEAR: 2022
AWARD NAME: The Peter Jennings Award 2022
RECIPIENT: Daniel Roher
AFFILIATION: CNN Films, HBO Max
HONORED WORK: “Navalny”
The judges found “Navalny,” which chronicles the efforts of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to investigate his own poisoning, compelling from beginning to end. The film captures an agent of Vladimir Putin revealing how Russian security apparatchiks attempted to murder Navalny by Novichuk poisoning. Along with director Daniel Roher, the judges wish to honor Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist with Bellingcat, and Maria Pevchikh, who heads Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. In real time, the cameras filmed them as they pored over passport databases, flight records and cell phone bills to uncover the assassination plot. The footage is riveting and illuminating.
Link to the honored work:
“Navalny”
Citation for Excellence:
Gesbeen Mohammad, Vasiliy Kolotilov and Sasha Odynova
FRONTLINE PBS, ITV
“Putin’s War at Home”