The Chilling Story of Serbia’s Human Slaughterhouse
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The Chilling Story of Serbia’s Human Slaughterhouse is a digital documentary by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) that exposes one of the most horrifying organized crime stories in Europe’s recent history. At the center of this investigation is a notorious Serbian gang that used encrypted Sky ECC phones to orchestrate and record brutal murders — shielded, allegedly, by powerful figures at the highest levels of the Serbian state.
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Matt SarneckiDirector
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Matt SarneckiProducer
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting ProjectNews Organization
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:16 minutes 29 seconds
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Completion Date:October 25, 2024
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Production Budget:2,000 USD
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Country of Filming:Serbia
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Language:English, Serbian
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Shooting Format:Sony fx3 and DJI mavic drone
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Distribution Information
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting ProjectDistributorRights: All Rights
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 Kušnírová, 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.
