Matt Sarnecki
Senior Producer
Matt Sarnecki is a producer, director, and journalist at OCCRP. His documentary The Killing of a Journalist (2022), about the murders of Ján Kuciak and Martina KušnĂrová, won several international film festivals, appeared in cinemas across Europe, and was acquired by Netflix. His documentary Killing Pavel, about the murder of investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet in Ukraine, won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal in 2017 and the DIG Award in 2018.
Matt has a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. He held a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.