Bryan Fogel on Hollywood Reticence to Distribute 'The Dissident' and Companies Looking 'the Other Way' on Huma

"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.

And as I started reading more about Jamal and then started reading his writings, his articles that had been [published in]and other stuff that he had published in different sources of Arabic media, and even some books that he had written over the past couple of years, it became clear to me that this guy was a moderate, he was not a radical as he was being painted in many places in the media.

Around a month and a half, two months in [development], I met Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation, [which] hosts the Oslo Freedom Forum every year in Oslo and hosts other versions of in New York, in Mexico, in Taiwan. What these events are is they bring together dissidents from all over the world to basically speak about what is going on in their countries and what those who want to voice dissent are dealing with.

And it was disappointing, but I think it speaks to what is the larger symptomatic response of, one, a U.S.

Bryan Fogel Like a mix of Bryan Singer & Jared Fogle Lol.

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Bryan Fogel Discusses ‘The Dissident’ and the Entertainment Industry’s Reluctance to Distribute ItThe assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi assassins sparked Bryan Fogel’s decision to direct and produce a documentary about Saudi Arabian efforts to stifle dis… BriarcliffEnt I fear countries may become more isolated, restricted,and non-transparent. Something is in the air that I can’t put my finger on ,but part of it is the ever changing virus and self centered governments that will not trust America for a long time. BriarcliffEnt The director says that the Arab Spring was a good thing, and this is not true because the Arab Spring has caused poverty and sectarian problems in some Arab countries that suffer from poverty, and for your information the film that he directed is baseless . BriarcliffEnt Great documentary!
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