Documentary filmmaker Bryan Fogel has become expert at telling complex stories of international intrigue.He won the Oscar for his 2017 documentary Icarus, which blew the lid off Russia’s sports doping conspiracy.
In his new film, The Dissident, he turns an investigative lens onto the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, allegedly on the orders of the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.“Following Icarus, I had actively been trying to figure out…what [my] next story was going to be,” Fogel tells Deadline. “I was looking for something that was going to involve taking on a dictatorship or authoritarian regime, fake news, false information, freedom of speech, freedom
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