That’s exactly what happened to Bryan Fogel, who started out making Icarus before the news of the Russian team’s doping habits surfaced at last year’s Rio Olympics.
Icarus was one of Sundance’s most audacious documentaries and was snatched up by Netflix soon after it premiered this year.
Icarus places you at the heart of an international game of cat and mouse, where a miscalculation can cost you your life.
In doing so, he was connected to a renegade Russian scientist, Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program.