Seymour Hersh Documentary Debuts at Toronto Film Festival
Description
Directors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus have profiled legendary journalist Seymour Hersh for their documentary Cover-Up which chronicles his storied career as an investigative reporter. Obenhaus is a veteran producer for PBS’s FRONTLINE and Poitras is a Pulitzer- and Oscar–winning documentarian.
Described as “one of the most gripping films ever made about journalism”, the documentary debuted this last week at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Bloomberg film critic Esther Zuckerman places Cover-Up in the top ten films featured at TIFF 25, stating that the film is “an overwhelming reminder of what Hersh uncovered in print, from the My Lai massacre to Abu Ghraib torture, and why we need people like him questioning everything.”
Art house studio MK2 Films provides the following description of the film:
Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, Cover-Up is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence — revealing a cycle of impunity in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. Drawing on exclusive access to Hersh’s notes, and interweaving primary documents and archival footage, Cover-Up captures the power and process of investigative journalism.
Cover-Up is still looking for a distributor.
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