THE DISSIDENT

USA, 2019, 119 min

Director: Bryan Fogel

Producers: Bryan Fogel, Mark Monroe

Editors: Scott D. Hanson, James Leche, Wyatt Rogowski, Avner Shiloah

Cinematographer: Jake Swantko

Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was critical of his beloved Saudi Arabia and of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s policies. On October 2, 2018, Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and never came out. His fiancee and dissidents around the world are left to piece together clues to his brutal murder--and in their dogged quest for truth, they expose a global cover-up perpetrated by the very country he loved.

Bryan Fogel is a director, producer, author and playwright, best known for the 2017 documentary Icarus, about illegal doping in sports, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2018. He also developed and co-wrote Jewtopia: The Chosen Guide for the Chosen People, an off-Broadway comedy that was one of the longest-running productions in off-Broadway history. Jewtopia was made into a feature film in 2013 and won the audience choice award of the 2012 Malibu International Film Festival.