News: Showtime Documentary Films Teams with Oscar® Winner Alex Gibney and Pulitzer Prize Winner Lawrence Wright to Produce House of Saud (wt)

SHOWTIME^® DOCUMENTARY FILMS TEAMS WITH OSCAR^® WINNER ALEX GIBNEY

AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNER LAWRENCE WRIGHT TO PRODUCE

HOUSE OF SAUD (WT)

Documentary Feature Will Explore U.S.-Saudi Arabia Relations

And Marks The Third Collaboration For Gibney And Wright

News: Showtime Documentary Films Teams with Oscar® Winner Alex Gibney and Pulitzer Prize Winner Lawrence Wright to Produce <i>House of Saud (wt)</i> 2 — LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 03: Lawrence Wright and Alex Gibney attend the “The Looming Tower” FYC screening at the Television Academy on April 3, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Hulu)

LOS ANGELES – January 7, 2019 – As the complicated dynamic between the current White House and Saudi Arabia continues to reveal itself and dominate the news, Showtime Documentary Films announced plans for HOUSE OF SAUD (wt), a documentary feature that will examine the relationship between the two powerful nations. Beginning with the October murder of Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi, the feature will explore the history between the two nations in the decades leading up to today’s troubling interactions between the Trump administration and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Oscar and Emmy^® award winning director Alex Gibney (ENEMIES: THE PRESIDENT, JUSTICE & THE FBI) is set to produce under his banner Jigsaw Productions in collaboration with Emmy and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower).

Gibney is a preeminent documentarian, with his projects earning an Academy Award^®, multiple Emmy Awards, a Grammy^® Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Award, and Writers Guild Awards. Gibney was awarded the International Documentary Association’s (IDA) Career Achievement Award in 2013 and the first ever Christopher Hitchens Prize in 2015. Wright is an acclaimed author, staff writer at the New Yorker, and was awarded the Pulitzer for his book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Gibney and Wright previously collaborated on the Emmy-nominated series The Looming Tower and the three-time Emmy-winning documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, based on Wright’s book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief.

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