A Jamal Khashoggi documentary could take the film world — and U.S.-Saudi relations — by storm

The Bezos report! Sundance premiere today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/23/jamal-khashoggi-documentary-dissident/

Layered with news, drama and moral excoriation, the film not only examines one of the most shocking events in modern Middle East-U.S. relations, but it is also likely to shine an uncomfortable spotlight on both Saudi Arabia and the profit-minded American companies that do business with it.

The movie could inadvertently prove its own point. Independently financed by the Human Rights Foundation, “The Dissident” will screen at Sundance for prospective buyers. Given the importance of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, it remains an open question which global streamers or studios will jump at the chance to acquire it.