Nominated for an Emmy Award, M’sian Journo Hadi Azmi Plays a Big Part of Kim Jong-nam’s Assassination Documentary
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un’s estranged half-brother, Kim Jong-nam was assassinated at KLIA Airport by two women who splashed poisonous liquid on his face in 2017. It took many Malaysians by surprise as the situation itself was one in a million…
Skip to today(29 July), a documentary which explored the murder-assassination from start to finish – titled Assassins, has been nominated for Outstanding Investigative Documentary at the 2022 News & Documentary Emmy Awards! The film documentary also included local renowned journalist Hadi Azmi who shared the news on Twitter.
Apparently, Hadi’s coverage of Kim Jong-nam’s murder trial in 2017 led to a collaboration with the American documentarians and filmmakers, Ryan White and Jessica Hargreaves.
Take a look:
The film premiered at Sundance in 2020, just before the pandemic. With me are director Ryan White, composer Blake Neely, and Jessica…
