How Austin filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh made the first major Western film in Saudi Arabia since Lawrence of Arabia.
, his dramatized exposé of the name, image, and likeness rights debate in the NCAA: shot under COVID protocols, and then released on video on demand in the fall of 2021."So to come back with a movie that's fully theatrical, it's great.","so we went to Saudi Arabia to start prepping it, and then the Delta variant went through Europe, and it shut all the borders down.
looks at the families at home – in England, Iran, Pakistan – at whistleblowers and press, at refugees and those that stayed behind. Waugh deliberately assembled an international cast and crew,"450 of us from 25 countries," including many people from the region"who gave us different context." Like Navid Negahban, who plays translator Mohammad:"He was a child refugee during the Iran-Iraq War and had to flee for his family's life."for the Middle East.
Yet there were very real security concerns."They deal with real terrorism," Waugh says,"We were on our way to Jeddah, and there was a bombing." So it was no surprise that people panicked when one of their massive pyro effects shook the windows of an airport 5 miles away."The security people let them know, 'They're just doing a movie.
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