How twelve people in a house on the Potomac, one white paper, years of field reporting, a song—and now a pencil—became a documentary
The Making of Operation Lockdown
How twelve people in a house on the Potomac, one white paper, years of field reporting, a song—and now a pencil—became a documentary
There is a strange moment in any long investigation when you realize you no longer have just an investigation.
You have a story.
And sometimes the only way to tell that story is to change the medium.
That is what has happened with Operation Lockdown.
It began for me as reporting. Then it became thousands of hours of video, documents, interviews, road trips and livestreams. Then it became a song.
The song became a short film.
And now the film is becoming something else again: a hand-drawn, pencil-rendered visual story.
This is the story of making that story.
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