The Kleptocrats
Year: 2018
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
Language:
English, Malaysian
Run Time:
84 minutes
Red Granite Pictures, newcomers to the Hollywood scene in 2011, became the unlikely film company to finance Martin Scorcese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Even for Hollywood standards, however, the exorbitant amounts of money flowing in to the company to throw over-the-top, star-studded parties and purchase a number of high-end real estate properties were highly suspicious. Meanwhile, an ocean away, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak had recently instituted a new fund called 1MDB—a large pool of taxpayer money designated to invest in the future of its country. Soon, reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hollywood Reporter began following the money to find a mysterious link between Red Granite Pictures and 1MDB with Malaysian investor Jho Low at the center, orchestrating a multi-billion-dollar laundering scheme. Documenting one of the world’s largest cases of financial corruption, THE KLEPTOCRATS exposes the perfect irony of fraudulent financial backers attempting to live out their investments’ deceitful plot. (In English and Malaysian with subtitles) —A.B.
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Sam Hobkinson, Havana Marking
Sam Hobkinson has 20 years of experience in the TV and film industry. He has written and directed a broad range of documentary and drama for British and American television. Havana Marking is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker known for filming in dangerous locations and getting on the inside of criminal or subculture groups.
Filmography
THE KLEPTOCRATS (2018)
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Mike Lerner
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Luciano Blotta, Phillip Stebbing
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Peter Norrey, John Clohessy
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