Rick Rowley

Richard Rick Rowley is a documentary filmmaker His films and TV shows have received three Emmy awards an Oscar nomination and other awards and nominations as well as recognition at film festivals around the world Rowleys Oscarnominated feature Dirty Wars was the culmination of ten years as a war reporter in Iraq Afghanistan and the lesserknown battlegrounds of the US war on terror Since then Rowley has turned his lens on racial injustice in the US His 2019 feature for Showtime 16 Shots won Television Academy honors and a Peabody nomination for its unflinching look at the police murder of Laquan McDonald and the coverup that followed His Emmywinning series Documenting Hate unmasked an underground Nazi fight club and a terrorist cell The series received a DuPont Award and prompted an FBI investigation that led to dozens of arrests His latest film Kingdom Of Silence is the story of the life and death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi