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Andrea Jean Baker, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University

New Aussie film The Correspondent is an extraordinary retelling of Peter Greste’s story

Maslow Entertainment

The Correspondent is a film every journalist should see.

There are no spoiler alerts. It is based on the globally-publicised jailing in Cairo in 2013 of Australian journalist Peter Greste (played by Richard Roxburgh) and his Al Jazeera English colleagues, Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy (Julian Maroun) and local reporter Baher Mohamed (Rahel Romahn).

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