Filmmaker Meg Smaker says she worked with local security experts to keep everyone involved in her controversial film safe. However, some early responses to the film have argued that “Jihad Rehab” ...
Two Sundance Institute employees have resigned in response to the hot-button documentary “Jihad Rehab” that played at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, a Sundance representative confirmed. Brenda ...
Whatever you think of “The UnRedacted,” a documentary (formerly called “Jihad Rehab”) that got blacklisted after its Sundance premiere and has now been championed by publications from The New York ...
Eight months after her documentary “Jihad Rehab” was greeted with accusations of Islamophobia after its Sundance premiere from several Muslim and Arab filmmakers, Meg Smaker has told The New York ...
SXSW: Benjamin Flaherty's documentary is almost biblical in its depiction of well-intended policies being corrupted by human avarice. It’s no secret that America has an addiction problem on its hands, ...
One of the most controversial movies to emerge from this year’s Sundance Film Festival is a documentary called “Jihad Rehab,” which follows a group of former Guantanamo Bay detainees. Directed by ...
Leaders of the Sundance Institute have issued an apology related to a controversial documentary that screened at January’s Sundance Film Festival — one that Muslim American filmmakers argued was ...
Abigail Disney disavowed an acclaimed documentary about terrorism that she produced after Muslim critics accused its director of promoting harmful stereotypes about Islam. Disney, the grandniece of ...
Billy Joel is opening up about a tough moment with longtime friend and tourmate Elton John. In the second part of the new two-part HBO Documentary, “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” the “New York State of ...
For better or worse, one of the most talked-about movies at Sundance is “Jihad Rehab.” The documentary from American filmmaker Meg Smaker follows three Yemeni men recently released from Guantanamo Bay ...