Bhutto (2010)

Directors:

Duane Baughman
Johnny O'Hara

Writer (WGA):

Johnny O'Hara (written by)

Release Date:

November 2010 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Tagline:

You can't murder a legacy.

Plot:

A riveting documentary of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, a polarizing figure in the Muslim world...

Plot Keywords:

Women | Islamic | Third World | Independent Film

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Aseefa Bhutto Zardari	...	Herself
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari	...	Himself
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari	...	Himself
Asif Ali Zardari	...	Himself (as President Asif Ali Zardari)
Sanam Bhutto	...	Herself (as Sanam 'Sunny' Bhutto)
Victoria Schofield	...	Herself
Mark Siegel	...	Himself
Tariq Ali	...	Himself
Steve Coll	...	Himself
Ahmed Ispahani	...	Himself
Akbar Ahmed	...	Himself
Peter Galbraith	...	Himself
Christina Lamb	...	Herself
Condoleezza Rice	...	Herself
Feroz Hassan Khan	...	Himself
Husain Haqqani	...	Himself
John Burns	...	Himself
Fatima Bhutto	...	Herself
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend	...	Herself
Khurram Dastgir-Khan	...	Himself
Pervez Musharraf	...	Himself
Rehman Malik	...	Himself
Wajid Shamsul Hasan	...	Himself
Reza Aslan	...	Himself
Amy Wilentz	...	Herself
Arianna Huffington	...	Herself
Ibrahim Malick	...	Himself
Shuja Nawaz	...	Himself
Sadia Abbas	...	Herself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Benazir Bhutto	...	Herself (archive footage)
David Frost	...	Himself
Rene Delacruz	...	Asif Ali Zadari (uncredited)
Rachael Farrokh	...	Nusrat Bhutto (uncredited)
Iyad Hajjaj	...	Lead Prison Police (uncredited)
Eliezer Ortiz	...	Pakistani Soldier (uncredited)

Directed by
Duane Baughman
Johnny O'Hara

Writing credits (WGA)
Johnny O'Hara		(written by)

Produced by
Marc Ambrose	....	line producer
Glenn Aveni	....	executive producer
Pamela S. Aveni	....	supervising producer
Duane Baughman	....	producer
Amy Berg	....	producer
Melinda Cardwell	....	supervising producer
Karen Crary	....	supervising producer
Darius Fisher	....	co-producer
Pamela B. Green	....	co-producer
Mariam Mukaty	....	co-producer
Katie O'Conor	....	associate producer
Mark Siegel	....	producer
Arleen Sorkin	....	producer

Original Music by
Herb Graham Jr.
Mader

Cinematography by
Noel Donnellon
James Mulryan		(as Jim Mulryan)
David Ethan Sanders
Jens Schlosser

Film Editing by
Jessica Hernández

Production Management
Katie O'Conor	....	post-production supervisor

Sound Department
Roberto Cappannelli	....	sound re-recording mixer
Robert Dehn	....	sound studio manager
Jason Gaya	....	sound re-recording mixer
Robin Gerrard	....	sound recordist: UK
Robert Hoehn	....	sound designer
Steven Iba	....	sound effects editor
Giles Khan	....	sound mixer
John Osborne	....	sound recordist

Visual Effects by
Esteban Arguello	....	post production coordinator
Judi Lewinson	....	motion graphics artist
Cafe Noir	....	animator: Pic Agency
Neal Sickles	....	motion graphics artist
Sean Wehrli	....	main title designer & animator: Pic Agency

Camera and Electrical Department
Chris Jaymes	....	additional cinematographer
Erin Olesen	....	first assistant camera (as Erin Endow)

Editorial Department
Esteban Arguello	....	additional editor
Iram Parveen Bilal	....	assistant editor
Paul Birmele	....	first assistant editor
Colin Davis	....	assistant editor
Adam Hain	....	post-production assistant
Michael Horwitz	....	additional editor
Jochen Kunstler	....	assistant editor
Billy McMillin	....	additional editor
Neal Sickles	....	assistant editor
Bari Winter	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Robert Hoehn	....	music editor
Mike Meeker	....	music supervisor
Derek Power	....	executive music producer
Anthony B. Willis	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Iram Parveen Bilal	....	production assistant
Lisa Callif	....	clearance counsel
Melinda Cardwell	....	executive production assistant
Nora Donaghy	....	production coordinator
Michael Donaldson	....	clearance counsel
Gregory Fleming	....	technical consultant
Christopher L. Perez	....	clearance counsel
Andrew Promey	....	assistant production coordinator
Andrew Raymond	....	production assistant
Rakesh Singh	....	production coordinator: india
Claire Tailyour	....	researcher (as Claire Sullivan-Tailyour)

Thanks
Melanie Franciosi	....	special thanks
Ilene Kahn Power	....	special thanks
Nanda Rao	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Icon Television Music (in association with)
• Disarming Films
• Yellow Pad Productions

Distributors

• First Run Features (2010) (USA) (theatrical)
• Mara Pictures (2010) (UK) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Gallagher Entertainment  insurance
• PIC Agency  titles
• Sonic Magic  sound post-production

Also Known As:

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Company:

Icon Television Music

Trivia:

The first cut of the film, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, listed Johnny O'Hara and Jessica Hernández as directors. Subsequent versions list the directors as Duane Baughman and Johnny O'Hara.

Their struggle is in a void, with no sign that they are winning or losing.

This is a far cry from the sentimental ahistorical nonsense I was expecting. It is all about the machinations of power, the ruthlessness that a ruler must uphold so as not to endanger her kingdom, about the necessity to put oneself aside and think of the greater good. Duane Baughman, with the inestimable help of Aseefa Bhutto Zardari in one of her most heartwrenching cinematic portrayals, gets all his sinister points across and does not flinch. Sure enough, the ending is more Hollywood, I believe, than Islamabad, more glamorous heroics than real-life sacrifice, but even so, it does not stick in your throat. I loved the amorous, innocent banter and bickering of Bhutto and the earl in their many intimate moments, and Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari never photographed better. Was there ever anyone in the annals of Hollywood more handsome? Condoleezza Rice tries on a slightly different role than the goody-goody, doe-eyed ones she usually had to make do with. Technicolor and lighting are both superb.