The Dissident, Bryan Fogel's documentary feature about the 2018 killing ofWashington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia, which has been likened in reviews to the narrative thriller Spotlight, will be distributed in the U.S.
by Briarcliff Entertainment. Briarcliff, appropriately enough, is the new distribution company run by Tom Ortenberg, who, in his previous capacity as the chief of Open Road Films, distributed Spotlight en route to its best picture Oscar win in 2016.
The Dissident, which was financed by the Human Rights Foundation, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, where — despite receiving raves (from critics and others including Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin), and despite the fact that.
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