The Hollywood Reporter’s Tatiana Siegel sat down with director Bryan Fogel to discuss his new documentary The Dissident in a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media.
Fogel, whose 2017 film Icarus won the Oscar for best documentary feature, has delivered another shocking exposé into the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. “I had not known who Jamal Khashoggi was prior to his disappearance,” Fogel admits.
But when he first heard of the reports of Khashoggi’s murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, he says it triggered “a light-bulb moment.” While reports out of the Middle East initially labeled Khashoggi as an extremist, Fogel read his work for The Washington Post and discovered him to be “basically advocating as a.
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