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Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie

Previously unseen footage captured by Salman Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documents his journey. Following not just his physical rehabilitation, but also the restoration of his spirit and optimism. Inspired by Rushdie’s memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.

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Previously unseen footage captured by Salman Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documents his journey. Following not just his physical rehabilitation, but also the restoration of his spirit and optimism. Inspired by Rushdie’s memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.

Alex Gibney, a Sundance Film Festival alumnus, builds upon his body of work with his latest film that explores the ways religion, art, and free speech intermingle. Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie brings these threads together in a contemporary climate where outspoken artists are under unprecedented threat. Rushdie guides the film in his own words — through his historic career, his writing practice, and the momentous cultural weight of his work. Breathtaking proximity through narration and intimate footage detail his recovery from his 2022 attack, an event which has become darkly prescient in the intervening years. Gibney gives us a magnificent gift in documenting this literary titan and great thinker as he navigates questions around violence, forgiveness, and expression — questions whose answers are needed now more than ever. — AC

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Credits

  • Director(s)

    Alex Gibney

  • Producers

    Alex Gibney

    Erin Edeiken

    Sruthi Pinnamaneni

  • Edited by

    Andy Grieve

  • Executive Producers

    Rachel Eliza Griffiths

    Richard Perello

  • Cinematography

    Rachel Eliza Griffiths

    Bill Kirstein

  • Music by

    Will Bates

  • Co-Producer

    Mahak Jiwani

  • Archival Producer

    Daniel Bellone

  • Post-Production Supervisor

    Jonas Bender-Nash

  • Assistant Editor

    Nancy Hoang

  • Animation

    Julie Gratz

    Chad Sikora

  • Contact

    Erin Edeiken

    knifefilm.submissions@jigsawprods.com

Meet the Artist

Panelist Name

Alex Gibney

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Alex Gibney is an Oscar-, Emmy-, Grammy-, and Peabody-winning filmmaker known for incisive, gripping documentaries. His works include Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear, Enron, In Restless Dreams, and forthcoming films on Elon Musk and Luigi Mangione.

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