James Jones

My score for ANTIDOTE, the doc by @jamesjones.bsky.social that explores the cost of speaking truth to power in Putin’s Russia, is out everywhere now.

It’s always a total pleasure to work with James, and I’m very proud of this piece of work! 💪

Listen now: bit.ly/3GUURbb

Doc Talk Podcast Debates Early Oscar Contenders: Who’s Leading The Best Documentary Charge And Who Belongs In Contention What films have traction in the wide-open 2026 Oscar Documentary Feature race? The Doc Talk Podcast and guest Lauren Wissot discuss.

Really great to see @jamesjones.bsky.social's ANTIDOTE name-checked in @deadline.com's Doc Talk Podcast as an early Oscar contender 👀

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Antidote | Hot Docs Journalist Christo Grozev and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza feature in this riveting doc-thriller about resisting and confronting the Russian regime.

Antidote opens tonight at Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto. hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...

BBC Radio 5 Live - Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake, James Jones Award-winning director James Jones joins Nihal for an in-depth conversation.

This was such a fun, wide-ranging conversation. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... BBC Radio 5 Live - Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake, James Jones

In the wake of World Press Freedom Day, a little insight into a few of the central questions of @jamesjones.bsky.social's ANTIDOTE - the doc that @ebertvoices.bsky.social called "A story that demands to be heard."

Antidote | FRONTLINE An award-winning film that exposes the cost of opposing Vladimir Putin.

Can't wait to see ANTIDOTE @jamesjones.bsky.social's new film on FRONTLINE tonight....

Antidote | FRONTLINE An award-winning film that exposes the cost of opposing Vladimir Putin.

Today marks World Press Freedom Day. On Tuesday, the FRONTLINE documentary “Antidote” tells the story of an investigative journalist and the grave consequences he faces standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Premieres May 6 on PBS and online:

London-based friends, head to The Frontline Club on 22nd to see ANTIDOTE plus a Q&A with director @jamesjones.bsky.social and Christo Grozev, the investigative journalist & author who became a target of the Russian state after leading the investigation into Navalny's poisoning.

bit.ly/3RE5O2m

A lovely review to wake up to in the Observer. @wendyide.bsky.social

Saw this gripping film by @jamesjonesfilm late last year & highly recommend it. It is dramatic, harrowing & moving, revealing the high personal price a principled & uncompromising journalist @christogrozev has paid for being - in the eyes of very bad people - too good at his job.

Antidote - Bertha DocHouse Antidote follows whistleblowers, journalists and activists working secretly to expose Russia's poison and assassination operations.

Following the convictions of the spies at the Old Bailey in London we can now release the film.
What’s it like to discover a plot by the Russian state to surveil, kidnap or even kill you?

@christogrozev.bsky.social @eliothiggins.bsky.social

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‘They came across as muppets’: Christo Grozev on being target of Bulgarian spy ring Investigative journalist called ‘modern-day Sherlock’ by Alexei Navalny on unsettling photos, reprisals and being exiled from Vienna

‘They came across as muppets’: Christo Grozev on being target of Bulgarian spy ring

Investigative journalist called ‘modern-day Sherlock’ by Alexei Navalny on unsettling photos, reprisals and being exiled from Vienna

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Three UK-based Bulgarians found guilty of spying for Russia Jury convicts Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanchev over alleged plots around Europe

Big news today at the Old Bailey - and a big moment for our film Antidote.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The Antidote filmmaking team will be taking part in Day One of the CPH:Conference.

The Cost of Exposing Truth to Power - 14.10-15.00 Tuesday 25th March.
Kunsthall Charlottenburg, Copenhagen

Antidote will have the premiere of the finished film at the amazing CPH:DOX where it is in the F:ACT competition alongside some incredible films.
It’s been a long and winding road and we can’t wait to share it.
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YouTube video by HBO Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes | Official Trailer | HBO

A few years ago, I had the pleasure of working with @jamesjones.bsky.social on CHERNOBYL: THE LOST TAPES, an exploration of the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster (streaming on NOW!).

A joy to work together again more recently on the score for ANTIDOTE - coming to a screen near you soon 👀

Files detail bid to contain fallout from Tulsi Gabbard meetings with Assad Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions from senators weighing her nomination to be director of national intellige...

“Emails, text messages, Google Doc edit logs and other records reviewed by The Post…” Words you never want to read if you’ve been meeting with Bashar al-Assad. Great reporting from @jonswaine.bsky.social and @ellenwapo.bsky.social on DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

👀 Excited to spread the ANTIDOTE message far and wide this spring!

‘I doorknocked for Labour then racist deepfake ruined my life’ Cheryl Bennett thought she was doing a friend a favour when she agreed to post party leaflets around Dudley. Instead, it nearly got her arrested

this is a genuinely alarming story via Gabriel Pogrund in Sunday Times:

deepfake video seen by two million people online falsely made it look as if a teacher - delivering election leaflets - had made a racist tirade

www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Team Antidote are back in the edit updating the film after some dramatic recent events. The final film will have its full release in the spring.
Stay tuned for news next month about global sales, spring festivals, cinema screenings, and international broadcasts.

Can’t wait to work with you again in 2025!

All We Imagine As Light review – Cannes prize-winning Indian drama is a quiet, tender marvel Payal Kapadia’s poetic, everyday tale of three women who work at the same hospital is all the more remarkable for being her fiction feature debut

Run, don't walk, to the cinema to see Payal Kapadia's exquisite masterpiece All We Imagine As Light.
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

Netanyahu’s ex-defense chief Ya’alon warns Israel on path of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza Former army head and prominent Netanyahu critic tells reporters that Israel is moving toward 'occupation, annexation and ethnic cleansing' under far-right pressure on PM

Netanyahu’s ex-defense chief Ya’alon warns Israel on path of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-e...

ANTIDOTE - Noir in Festival Quanto costa dire la verità in faccia al potere? Nella Russia di Putin, il prezzo potrebbe essere la tua vita. Antidote segue contemporaneamente: uno scienziato che ha partecipato alla creazione di ve...

Antidote is coming to Milan next week. www.noirfest.com/program/anti...

It wouldn’t be the first time the Russians have brought down a plane, but this would be a serious escalation of their sabotage in Europe.

Playing a film about Russian state murder and intimidation in a building “donated” by Stalin is just what he would have wanted. @christogrozev.bsky.social

Russian-British dissident’s wife: ‘The Kremlin can never silence me’ The activist Evgenia Kara-Murza, 44, received the 2024 Freedom of Expression Trustee Award, for helping to secure the release of her husband, Vladimir

I could wax lyrical about how amazing Evgenia Kara-Murza is & indeed I do in this @thetimes.com article which outlines why she’s @indexoncensorship.org Trustee Award winner 2024.

Her fight didn’t stop at freeing her husband- she’s now onto other political prisoners www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

Ten of the best docs I’ve seen this year which I’d put money on making the Oscars shortlist next month.

very well-deserved!

You look so like her!