Murdered Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi At Center Of ‘Kingdom Of Silence’: “His Life Was Just Epic” – Contenders Documentary

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesWhen Bryan Fogel set out to make “The Dissident,” his intrepid and arresting exposé on the assassination of Saudi Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018, he knew there were myriad security risks involved.

who has died at the age of 87, was in September 2017.It was two short months after he’d undergone surgery for lung cancer.“They’re gonna have to carry me out,” King told me, defiantly refusing to let anything deter him from doing what he loved best: interviewing people on television.“I’m back doing shows. I’m working today.

“He works hard every day so I’m really pleased for him.“I just want to play but when I’ve watched him from the side he’s been electric the last five or six games so I hope it can continue.”

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCinematographer and producer Jake Swantko had to move quickly if he and director Bryan Fogel wanted to dive into the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist who was captured, killed and dismembered at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.The story was still moving as Fogel and Swantko were starting to think about following the scandal for the documentary that became “The Dissident,” now available on demand and in select theaters.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaBryan Fogel’s “The Dissident” was too hot to handle.The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist and political activist who was allegedly killed in 2018 on the orders of the Saudi Royal Family, was one of the hottest films at last year’s Sundance.

Mid East distributor and rising producer Front Row Filmed Entertainment has teamed with Saudi Arabian theater chain Muvi Cinemas on a new Saudi-based distribution company. The joint-venture, Front Row Arabia, is set to focus on western, Arabic language and Japanese anime theatrical releases across the kingdom, with its first release being the Liam Neeson actioner The Marksman on Jan.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentExpanding Middle East indie film distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment has forged a joint venture with Saudi Arabian exhibition chain Muvi Cinemas to launch Front Row Arabia, with ambitious plans to cash in on Saudi’s current theatrical boom.The new distribution and exhibition company will be releasing English, Arabic, Japanese anime and alternative content across Saudi which — bucking the global downward trend — in 2020 became the Middle East’s

Nascent theatrical market Saudi Arabia, which saw its first cinemas open back in 2018, is set for a new distribution player to enter the ring after leading MENA distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment teamed with Saudi exhibition outfit Muvi Cinemas to launch a joint venture.

Deadline on Monday launched streaming sites for its first two Contenders awards-season events that took place over the weekend: Contenders International and Contenders Documentary.

The pressure was on when directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set about making Boys State, their film documenting an annual exercise in Texas that gives high school boys the chance to practice democracy in action.

The California town of Paradise was home to about 26,000 people in November 2018 when a catastrophic wildfire reduced most of the town to ash. Ron Howard’s National Geographic documentary Rebuilding Paradise begins with footage of the community in flames.

No one can say filmmaker Bryan Fogel doesn’t enjoy a cinematic challenge.

Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw didn’t necessarily get much sleep when they were making their Sony Pictures Classics documentary The Truffle Hunters, about superannuated men and their dogs in Italy who search for the subterranean delicacy.

Joanna Harcourt-Smith, the alluring subject of Errol Morris’ Showtime documentary My Psychedelic Love Story, became enthralled in the 1970s with the LSD guru Timothy Leary. It’s a sentiment the Oscar-winning filmmaker could understand.