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The Dissident: Directed by Bryan Fogel. With Jamal Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz, Irfan Fidan, Recep Kiliç. When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.

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Changing the way we experience games: the rise of sports documentaries

In the summer season of 2014, an novice bike owner dwelling in Boulder, Colorado determined to race in the Haute Route Alps, an 800km biking occasion from Megève to Nice spanning seven days. Bryan Fogel seemed as much as cyclists like Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong all his life and wished to emulate their grit, efficiency and athleticism. However, when Lance admitted to doping in 2013, Bryan…

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Icarus pose

To create the scientific framework necessary for such a global project, we formed the ICARUS initiative (the International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space. Here, we propose a small-animal satellite tracking system that would enable the global monitoring of animals down to the size of the smallest birds, mammals (bats), marine life and eventually large insects. Tracking small animals is important because they are often part of evolutionary and ecological experiments, they provide important ecosystem services and they are of conservation concern or pose harm to human health. And yet the vast majority of animals is small. However, only large animals (greater than approximately 300 g) currently can be followed globally because of power and size constraints on the tracking devices. However just days after the PyeongChang Games ended, the International Olympic Committee lifted its ban on the Russian Olympic Committee even though the country is still non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency, Deadline reports.Tracking animals over large temporal and spatial scales has revealed invaluable and spectacular biological information, particularly when the paths and fates of individuals can be monitored on a global scale. This meant Russia was unable to earn a position on the podium and unable to add to its medal cache. Russian athletes competed under a neutral flag in Pyeongchang last month-representing the Olympic Athletes from Russia in South Korea. Thanks largely in part to Fogel’s work , Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics. Yes, Icarus is responsible for the Olympic Russian Ban We won’t spoil all the juicy details (and surprises) for you, but as you can imagine this news had quite an influence on the 2018 Winter Olympics.Ĥ. Shortly after, the World Anti-Doping Association exposed the extent of Russia’s doping-including Rodchenkov and Vladimir Putin’s involvement in it all. Later, he’d replace their urine with the untainted smuggled samples since he ran the lab that handled Olympic testing, The New York Times reports. Rodchenkov says he’d mix three banned steroids with liquor for Russian athletes. Rodchenkov snuck Fogel’s urine through an airport-something he later admits was a technique Russia used to keep its Olympic athletes “clean” at the Sochi Winter Games in 2014, The Guardian reports. The Doping Documentary That Will Make You Lose Faith In Sports Read article Sensing a propitious opportunity, Fogel asked Rodchenkov to help him cheat the system-dope and dodge detection-to which Rodchenkov eagerly agreed. As if by fate, one introduced him to Russian scientist Grigory Rodchenkov, then-director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Centre. Naturally Fogel needed some experts to show him the ropes. He wanted to be a true muckraker by cruising through the competition (and his best time) and pass the urine tests all on film, The Guardian summarizes. Bryan Fogel struck filmmaker gold-on accidentįogel’s initial plan was to prove how easy it is to get away with doping by competing in a prestigious amateur race he’d done the year before-only now tackle it chemically enhanced. Fogel more or less trips into one of the biggest sport scandals the world has ever seen.ģ. “So I’m going, ‘Wait, what is wrong with the system?’ Not, ‘What is wrong with Lance?’”īut at the end of this documentary, Armstrong’s misdoings are overshadowed by more nefarious revelations. “Lance Armstrong had evaded 500 anti-doping controls clean,” Fogel told Seth Meyers in an interview on Late Night in summer 2017. It’s also the first time a Netflix Original has taken home a statuette for best documentary feature.īryan Fogel- Icarus filmmaker and recreational cyclist-began the documentary as an answer to Lance Armstrong’s scandalous career. Icarus is one of the few Oscar-winning movies you can screen on a lazy Sunday in bed. The 10 Best Dressed Guys at the 2018 Academy Awards Read article

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High falls of the cheat

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Bryan Fogel’s “The Dissident” was too hot to handle.

The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist and political activist who was allegedly killed in 2018 on the orders of the Saudi Royal Family, was one of the hottest films at last year’s Sundance. It had glowing reviews, a ripped from the headlines subject, and a big-name director in Fogel, fresh off the Oscar-winning “Icarus,” a penetrating look at Russian doping that got the country banned from the Olympics.

And yet, Netflix, which had previously released “Icarus,” and other streaming services such as Apple and Amazon steered clear of “The Dissident.” Without any interested buyers, the film languished until last fall. That’s when Briarcliff Entertainment, an obscure distributor run by former Open Road CEO Tom Ortenberg, announced it would release the movie on-demand.

Fogel thinks the subject matter was too explosive for bigger companies, which have financial ties to Saudi Arabia or are looking to access the country’s massive population of well-to-do consumers. Using interviews with Khashoggi’s fiancee Hatice Cengiz, as well as friends and fellow activists, Fogel creates a damning portrait of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s apparent involvement in brutally silencing the writer and thinker and the country’s crackdown on free speech. Thanks to previously unreleased audio recordings, “The Dissident” draws a direct line between Khashoggi’s assassination at the Saudi embassy in Turkey and the Saudi government’s anger over his outspoken criticism of the country’s human rights abuses and mismanagement.

“The Dissident” is currently available on-demand, but its rather muted release isn’t the way Fogel had dreamed of provoking a larger conversation around Khashoggi’s murder. He spoke to Variety about the difficulty of making “The Dissident” and then getting it seen and why he thinks his new movie had the major streamers running scared.

Why did you want to make “The Dissident”?

After the success of “Icarus,” I felt a great burden and social responsibility to make a worthy follow-up. I was looking for a story regarding human rights, regarding freedom of speech, freedom of press, journalism. I also wanted a story that had real world implications that could create real world change through social action or political action.

As the investigation into the murder of Jamal unfolded, my ears perked up and I immediately started reading more about this man. I hadn’t heard of him, but I found out how trusted and regarded he was as a voice on the Middle East. He was also being presented in many media circles as a terrorist sympathizer or member of the Muslim Brotherhood or a friend of Bin Laden. This was not true. He was a moderate, who was fighting for free speech for his country and believed women should have rights. He believed Mohammed Bin Salman’s policies were putting the country on the wrong direction.

Was it difficult to get his friends and fiancee and family to speak to you?

It was very very difficult. This is where the accolades and recognition of “Icarus” and the Academy Award really changed the conversation. In those weeks following his death every journalist was after Hatice. As I approached her and other people, they were able to see my prior work. Hatice invited me about a month after his murder to come and meet with her in Istanbul. I didn’t bring a film crew. I spent the next five weeks there just building trust. It was a harrowing time in her life and I just kept explaining that I was not there for a day or a week or a month. I told her: if we do this, we’re going to go on this journey together. I promised that if she let me into her life, I was going to protect Jamal.

At the Sundance premiere, you challenged distributors to “…not be fearful and give this the global release that this deserves.” How did that turn out?

[Netflix CEO] Reed Hastings was there that day and so was Hillary Clinton. We had a standing ovation. People were wiping tears from their eyes as Hatice took the stage. It was the same scene at each one of our screenings. We were blessed with incredible reviews from all of the trades. In any normal circumstance, you’d think of course this film is going to be acquired and distributed. And yet not only was it not acquired and distributed, there was universal silence. Not a single offer. Not for one dollar or not 12 million dollars, which was what was paid for another documentary title at the festival. Nothing. It was literally as if nobody knew me. It was that startling and that shocking.

Six months later Tom Ortenberg and Briarcliff Entertainment stepped forward and said, hey we want to distribute this film. That’s wonderful. People will be able to rent this film on-demand. But what I wanted was for this film to be streaming into 200 million households around the world. I wanted people to have easy access to it. Instead we pieced together global distribution here and there.

Will this have a chilling effect on movies that want to tackle these kinds of controversial subjects?

This is a depressing and eye-opening moment that any filmmaker that wishes to tell a story like this needs to pay attention to. These global media conglomerates are aiding and abetting and silencing films that take on subject matter like this despite the fact their audiences want content like this. I was told that “Icarus” has had somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 million views. I don’t know if that’s accurate, but I know it was substantial. The decision not to acquire “The Dissident” had nothing to do with its critical reviews, had nothing to do with a global audience’s appetite to watch a docu-thriller, but had everything to do with business interests and politics and, who knows, perhaps pressure from the Saudi government. Netflix did remove Hasan Minhaj’s episode of “Patriot Act” [at the Saudi government’s request] in 2019 and defended that decision by saying, “we’re not a truth to power company. We’re an entertainment company.” It has been a struggle to get this film into the world and to shine a light on the human rights abuses that are happening in that kingdom. These companies, that have chosen not to distribute this film, in my opinion, are complicit.

Have you had conversations with these companies about why they didn’t want to release “The Dissident”? If so what has been their response?

It has been to not respond.

Is this about money? Are they wary of angering the Saudi Royal Family because they have money from Saudi Arabia or want to access their market?

My guess is both. Decisions are being made that it’s better to keep our doors open to Saudi business and Saudi money than it is to do anything to anger the kingdom. Netflix released a statement regarding Black Lives Matter that is in direct contrast to their statement regarding Hasan Minahaj. One stands behind truth to power and the other says we’re not a truth to power company, so it appears they are a truth to power company when it is convenient. But when their business doesn’t align with that or it might impact their subscriber growth, they’re not. The same can be said for all the streaming companies. In the film, there’s Jeff Bezos on the stage with Hatice. Jamal worked for Jeff Bezos [at the Washington Post, which Bezos owns]. So the same can be said of Amazon. I don’t want to point a finger at anyone because it’s all of them. This is a situation where business, subscriber growth, investment was more important than human rights. There’s got to be greater accountability. Not just on a business level, but on a political level. Trump vetoed the desire of both the House and the Senate to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for this crime. He continued to sell them weapons. He’s trying to get the Justice Department to grant Mohammed Bin Salman immunity from prosecution.

Would you still work for Netflix or the other streamers who declined to release “The Dissident”?

Listen, this is my career. This is my work. I’m sure that I will have other projects that might not take on subject matter like this and are not at odds with their business interests. When those projects come along, I will be glad to work with any of these companies. Look, I love Netflix. I really, really do. I’m so grateful to them because without Netflix, “Icarus” would not have become what it became. I’m not insulted by this. I’m not personally offended. I don’t view anything that is happening as personal. I just view it as business. I can understand it on a business level. I don’t agree with it, but I get it. I’m not mad. I’m disappointed.

What message do you want viewers will take away from the film?

There’s a hashtag #JusticeForJamal and the question has to become what does justice mean? We know that Mohammed Bin Salman will not stand trial for this murder. We know that the henchmen he sent are unlikely to truly stand trial. We have to look to the future. So what I hope people will take from the film is knowledge, because knowledge is power. Just like “Icarus” or “Blackfish” or “The Cove,” I hope this film has the ability to change hearts and minds. As more and more people come to “The Dissident,” I hope there’s a call to action. I hope that takes place on social media or through writing letters to congressmen or senators. The first thing I hope is people will spread the word. The second thing is I hope they will use the power of free speech that we have in this country and are so blessed to have to change the narrative. The Arab Spring happened because of Twitter, the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements took hold because of social media. We’ve seen that through combined action, change can come.

Disclosure: SRMG, a Saudi publishing and media company which is publicly traded, remains a minority investor in PMC, Variety’s parent company.

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The Dissident Review! JM says, the documentary is a "modern day masterpiece in investigative filmmaking!"

The Dissident Review! JM says, the documentary is a “modern day masterpiece in investigative filmmaking!”

Rarely can I recall a filmmaker following up an Academy Award winning film with an even more magnificent movie. Such is the case with Bryan Fogel’s fantastic documentary “The Dissident.” On October 2, 2018, Washington Post journalist and critic of the Saudi Arabian government, Jamal Khashoggi, walked into the country’s consulate in Istanbul never to be seen again. Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and…

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THE DISSIDENT

THE DISSIDENT Director: Bryan Fogel Runtime: 1hr 59m   Cast: Hatice Cengiz, Jamal Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz, John O.Brennan, Fahrettin Altin, David Ignatius Synopsis: When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world were left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a…

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Bryan Fogel on Hollywood Reticence to Distribute 'The Dissident' and Companies Looking "the Other Way" on Human Rights Abuses

"Without going into behind-the-scenes details that I’m aware of, there was a unified front among the major global media companies, distributors, that they were not going to touch this film," Fogel says in December.

The film, which chronicles the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and its investigation, implicating the Saudi royal family, was eventually picked up by the new distribution company Briarcliff Entertainment and will be theatrically released Dec. 25, with a VOD release Jan. 8. But Hollywood's reticence to pick it up, Fogel argues, proves one of The Dissident's points: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's importance in the global economy has prompted major companies and governments to "look the other way," Fogel says, on human rights abuses — or at, least, to avoid poking the bear.

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Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach, Laura Dern, Dan Cogen, David Fialkow, Bryan Fogel Hot or Not?

The 90th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles 03/04/2018

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Icarus is an Oscar winning documentary about Russian Doping Scandal of 2014.

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Film Review | Icarus (2017)

Absolutely stunning. A director/cyclist sets out to do some PEDs and see what’s up... ends up being a key player in shedding the light on the Russian doping conspiracy going back 40+ years, including protecting and assisting the director of the lab at the center of everything. This is one of the best examples of how malleable and incredible doc filmmaking is - a master class in reality.

The story itself is heartbreaking for Grigory Rodchenkov - whistleblowing on an entire government and escaping for fear of his life. It’s inspiring, terrifying, and darkly beautiful. Seeing the Olympic committee move forward with allowing Russia to compete in Rio makes the entire story that much harder to watch. it’s crazy, y’all gotta check it out.

8 of 365.

4.5 out of 5.

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Movie #2068 - Icarus (2017)

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Greta Gerwig, Laura Dern, Dan Cogen, David Fialkow and Bryan Fogel backstage during the 90th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California.

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In 2015, documentary director Bryan Fogel, in the midst of his own expose on performance enhancing drugs in amateur cycling found himself being brought into a much bigger story when he befriends the head of the Russian lab responsible for drug testing. The result of this would make international news and the Oscar-winning documentary Icarus. Part expose on state sponsored doping, part human drama as the duo try to navigate a bureaucratic labyrinth to both protect the story and the source. But does this doc hit the mark? MovieDude Eric, Kent and Chris find out.

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