Discover
In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance. Assia struggles to disrupt the government secrecy shrouding what happened and takes the FBI to federal court to compel them to make the records they collected about her community public. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about the FBI’s relationship to her community. The Feeling of Being Watched follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family.
Original Release
03/19/2019
US Release
05/17/2019
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gamal Abdel-Hafiz | Self - Former FBI Agent |
Iman Boundaoui | Self |
Nouha Boundaoui | Self |
Oussama Boundaoui | Self |
Rabia Boundaoui | Self |
Mark Flessner | Self - Former Assistant US Attorney |
Monica Eva Foster | Assia Boundaoui's Attorney (voice) / Assia Boundaoui's Attorney |
Daron Hagen | Judge Thomas Durkin (voice) / Judge Thomas Durkin |
Allison Hantschel | Self - Local Journalist, The Daily Southtown |
Bassem Kawar | Self - Organizer, Arab-American Action Network |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gamal Abdel-Hafiz | Self - Former FBI Agent |
Iman Boundaoui | Self |
Nouha Boundaoui | Self |
Oussama Boundaoui | Self |
Rabia Boundaoui | Self |
Mark Flessner | Self - Former Assistant US Attorney |
Monica Eva Foster | Assia Boundaoui's Attorney (voice) / Assia Boundaoui's Attorney |
Daron Hagen | Judge Thomas Durkin (voice) / Judge Thomas Durkin |
Allison Hantschel | Self - Local Journalist, The Daily Southtown |
Bassem Kawar | Self - Organizer, Arab-American Action Network |
Jen Marlowe | Government Attorney |
Nareman Taha | Self - Co-director, Arab American Family Services |
Robert Wright | Self - Former FBI Agent |
Assia Boundaoui | Self / herself |
Sohib Boundaoui | Self |
Christina Abraham | Self - Attorney / herself |
Jenny Marlowe | Government Attorney (voice) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Christina Abraham | Executive Producer |
Jim Butterworth | Executive Producer |
Daniel J. Chalfen | Executive Producer |
Dan Cogan | Executive Producer |
Vijay Dewan | Executive Producer |
Geralyn White Dreyfous | Executive Producer |
Bill Harnisch | Executive Producer |
Ruth Ann Harnisch | Executive Producer |
Michael D. Mann | Executive Producer |
Debbie McLeod | Executive Producer |
Alexa Poletto | Executive Producer |
Barry W. Rashkover | Executive Producer |
Jenny Raskin | Executive Producer |
Jay Sears | Executive Producer |
Florian Wilisch | Executive Producer |
Sohib Boundaoui | Producer |
Assia Boundaoui | Producer |
Alex Bushe | Producer |
Lyric R. Cabral | Producer |
Colleen Cassingham | Producer |
Din Clarke | Producer |
Jihan El-Tahri | Producer |
Daniah Elharezi | Producer |
Ingrid Jungermann | Producer |
Amel Monsur | Producer |
Samer Rashid | Producer |
Anya Rous | Producer |
Dong-chun Hyeon | Producer |