Behind the making of The Dissident, the movie about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Director Bryan Fogel’s first documentary, Icarus, won an Oscar. His next effort, The Dissident, details the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Fogel talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about why and how he made the movie - and why he thinks Hollywood and big tech companies didn’t want to distribute it. Featuring: Bryan Fogel (@bryanfogel), Director Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:35.6	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
1:37.8	That is me.
1:38.5	I'm delighted to speak today with Brian Fogle, an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker.
1:43.7	His first movie was...
1:44.5	Was it your first movie? Brian, your first documentary, Icarus? Well, it was my first documentary, but it was not my first film. Right. So we'll go into that, but your first documentary, out of the gate, wins an Oscar. Now we're talking about your second documentary. It's called The Dissident. It's about the shocking murder and attempted cover of of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
2:04.8	And as we speak, or within a day or two as we speak, you can rent this movie via video on demand.
2:11.4	We'll talk about that and why it's not on Netflix or Amazon.
2:14.9	But let's start with the movie.
2:19.6	Why did you want to make a movie about the Jamal Khashoggi story? Well, you know, following Icarus, which by the time we got to the
2:27.4	Academy Awards, that was March of 2018. And I had been thinking at that time for some time about what my next project was going to be.
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