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‘Flight 149’ Director Hopes Evidence Uncovered During Filming Will Help Hostages Win Legal Case Against UK Government & British Airways
'Flight 149: Hostage of War' Director Jenny Ash has talked the Sky documentary, hostages legal case and Richard Branson.
Ash and her team took a three-pronged approach to Flight 149: telling the stories of the hostages, charting the “political cat and mouse game that played out on the world stage which feels resonant today,” and covering the “quite complicated legal case” that rumbles on as Deadline goes to press. For the third prong, Ash, who was Emmy nominated for 2010’s America: The Story of the US and has made docs on Osama bin Laden and the Nuremberg trials, wanted to imbue a sense of drama by constructing a stylized legal office and then having the lawyers – a small firm called McCue Jury & Partners that has previously taken on Vladimir Putin and Andrew Tate – interview the hostages. Her cause was helped by a production team including Mark Henderson, who himself was kidnapped two decades ago in South America, and Syrian producer Mowaffaq Safadi who introduced “the Middle Eastern side of the story” and a Kuwaiti perspective.
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