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FREELANCER ON THE FRONT LINES

By Santiago BERTOLINO

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2016

Freelance reporter Jesse Rosenfeld has made the Middle East the focus of his work. The film follows his journey, presents a complex regional reality and explores how a reporter’s job has changed in the age of the Internet.

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Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal 2016

Closing Film

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Santiago BERTOLINO
- Synopsis
- Freelance reporter Jesse Rosenfeld has made the Middle East the focus of his work, and to make a living he has to keep up with constantly moving news targets. Freelancer on the Front Lines follows his journey across the region, showing us thorny geopolitical realities shaped by the events transforming the Middle East and exploring how journalism practices have changed in the age of the Internet.
  
  Whether covering the dashed hopes of the Egyptian revolution, the upheavals in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Ramallah or Gaza, the reality of refugee camps in Turkey, or the faultiness of Iraq’s bloody divisions, the man is on a mission to share the issues on the ground with his readers. But to cope with the new communications jungle, choose the subjects he wants and make the front page, he must set himself apart from traditional mass media. With the thrilling pace of an action film, the documentary captures the ups and downs of a new and unconventional kind of journalism.
  
  Accompanying Jesse in his quest for truth, Freelancer on the Front Lines highlights the importance of independent news—journalists who aren’t afraid to get to the heart of a story in a media landscape that too often relies on press releases and spin.

FREELANCER ON THE FRONT LINES

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