The screening took place at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah with director Spike Lee in attendance.
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“We knew that by hook or by crook we had to shoot Malcolm’s Hajj because this is where he felt he converted to true Islam. But up until that point, a movie camera had never been allowed. And by the grace of God, the grace of Allah, the highest Islamic court gave us permission,” he said. “It wasn’t because of me. It was because of Malcolm X that they made that exception. They recognized who he was.
Lee explained that, as a non-Muslim, he was not able to actually visit Mecca to shoot himself, but instead hired a Muslim camera crew who were able to film the thousands of worshippers also undertaking their hajj pilgrimage. “The footage we got during Hajj was just amazing and it really gave the film that epic film that we needed,” he said. “It really added so much spirituality.”, wanted the film to be two hours long, but that he “needed three hours to tell the whole story of the transformation Malcolm was going through.” So he called up Oliver Stone, then in post-production on, also with Warners., who told him that his film was going to be three hours long.
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