Australian journalist Peter Greste will be among the recipients of the Tribeca Film Festival’s sixth annual Disruptive Innovation Awards.
The arrest and conviction on spying charges and eventual acquittal of Australian-born foreign correspondent Peter Greste in Cairo in 2013 will be adapted into a feature film by Peter Duncan.
The plight of former Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste has been recreated in Sydney across the past six weeks for Kriv Stenders' 'The Correspondent', a new film based on his memoir 'The First Casualty' that has now wrapped filming.