Participant might have a bed partner in Summit for the next five years, but based on their film production history, throw them a project that deals with Middle East politics and there is a better than average chance that Jeff Skoll will bite — of course, it also helps when you’ve signed a wealthy deal with a production company (Imagenation) based out of the oil rich, hungry-for-Hollywood-product country of Abu Dhabi.
Ziad Doueiri (from the great coming-of-age title West Beyrouth fame) has been working on the screenplay for a while now — he is set to direct the project (which would be his first since 2004’s Lila Says). Based on the French novel by Yasmina Khadra, this is about an affluent Palestinian doctor working in an Israeli hospital whose life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife may have become a suicide bomber.
