Director Bryan Fogel, left, and Hatice Cengiz pose for a portrait to promote the film 'The Dissident' at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 24, 2020, in Park City, Utah.A searing documentary about the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made its anticipated debut at the Sundance Film Festival, unveiling a detailed investigation into the Saudi Arabia regime and the companies and governments that do business with it.
“I hope that this film will make other countries, their government and business leaders reassess their relationship with Saudi Arabia until they reform,” said Fogel. “As much money as there is, when you have people sitting in prisons for tweeting, when you have women arrested and tortured for driving, it’s very hard to look the other way.”
Media companies have capitulated to Saudi pressure before. Netflix, which distributed Fogel’s “Icarus,” last year removed an episode of Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” dealing with the killing of Khashoggi after a Saudi complaint. Fogel said he would be happy for any studio to pick up the film, including Netflix, HBO and Bezo’s own Amazon. Following the murder, relations between Amazon and Saudi Arabia cooled considerably.
After the killing of Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who fled the kingdom to urge for reforms and press freedom in his native country, Cengiz says she can no longer assume her safety. The Guardian on Friday reported that U.S. officials believed Saudi Arabia has previously attempted to monitor Cengiz abroad.
GlobeArts A documentary does not tell everything about the subject being studied. We regret the killing of this Saudi journalist. But he was a very extremist person.
GlobeArts It's highly disrespectful to disregard Khashoggi's family's opinion like that, and rely only on a Turkish Intel operative like Hatice for your information. Saudi Public Prosecution already conducted the necessary investigations and trials, which led to convicting 8 accused.
GlobeArts did it disclose the relationship with the Qatari regime? and he get paid? and they found the money transfer slips from Qatar?
GlobeArts Our offensive to highlight JK Muslim Brotherhood links and pro-Islamist sympathies was so successful that the Qatar-funded Brookings Institute issued a paper on October 19, “On Jamal Khashoggi, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Saudi Arabia,” that aupposedly revealed in the movie?
GlobeArts It landed at the same time as the Bezos BS, and the UN’s statements, how very coordinated of them. The cast of characters keeps growing and the lies keep spreading. The film failed to tell who and what Jamal Khashoggi really was.
GlobeArts The film is an attempt to influence the decision of the Saudi court after the investigations acquitted a number of senior Saudi officials. It’s clear that the regional intelligence services were seeking to implicate saudis senior officials in the crime.
GlobeArts Did the movie revealed the reality of hatice a deep-cover agent of Turkish spy agency Did they mention the Turkish collaborator & that Turkish authorities evaded in handing over the evidence they own,and that Khashoggi was a member of notorious Muslim Brotherhood & Al Qaeda?
GlobeArts After they failed to target Prince Muhammad bin Salman, they headed towards reopening the file of Khashoggi’s crime, but justice was done!
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