In 2008, Jay Bahadur wanted to be a reporter. He didn't go to school to hone his craft nor did he have much experience reporting (outside of conducting interviews for his market researching job).

The pleasingly self-aware and fast-paced “Dabka” begins with narration by journalist Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters) telling us that he hates movies where the main character narrates because that means that ...

Dabka (2017) Film Review from the 16 th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Bryan Buckley and starring Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Kiana Madani, Sabrina Hassan, Maria Vos ...

When Paul Greengrass took on Captain Phillips—starring Tom Hanks as the true-life captain who combatted Somali pirates at the height of their influence—the result was six Oscar nominations, including ...

EXCLUSIVE: Written and directed by Bryan Buckley (Asad) comes Dabka, the true story of one reporter’s risk-taking adventure that ultimately brought the world an unprecedented first-person account of ...

If George Plimpton and Hunter S. Thompson had a love child, it might have been a young Canadian fellow by the name of Jay Bahadur. Back in the sixties, you may recall, Plimpton was a famed ...

Bryan Buckley is known as the “King of the Super Bowl.” He’s directed over 50 of the high-profile commercials, but when you talk with him, he sounds like he’d prefer to backpack around Africa for the ...

"The news only gives these snapshots of famine, piracy, terrorists, but oh my god, the Somali people are so funny," says director Bryan Buckley of the adventure tale, based on Jay Bahadur's early ...

Oscar nominee Bryan Buckley's first feature has big ambitions (showing the other side of Somali piracy), but proves off-putting in execution. In the 1980s, what the average North American knew of ...

The pleasingly self-aware and fast-paced “Dabka” begins with narration by journalist Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters) telling us that he hates movies where the main character narrates because that means that ...