PROFILE / FOCUS FEATURES – In Theaters MAY 14, 2021
PROFILE follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. The thriller is co-led by Valene Kane (ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY) and Shazad Latif (STAR TREK: DISCOVERY). PROFILE is inspired by the 2015 nonfiction bestseller “In The Skin of a Jihadist” by a French journalist who now has round-the-clock police protection and has changed her name to Anna Érelle.
Cast: Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Written by Timur Bekmambetov, Britt Poulton and Olga Kharina
Produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Olga Kharina
Starring Valene Kane and Shazad Latif
PROFILE follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself. The unconventional thriller plays out entirely on a computer screen in the Screenlife format, pioneered by Bekmambetov.