MAN ON THE RUN follows the enigmatic Low Taek Jho—known to most as Jho 
Low–a mysterious businessman and playboy. Working with former Prime Minister Najib 
Razak of Malaysia, Low orchestrated a scheme to exploit 1MDB, a sovereign wealth fund established in 2009 with the noble purpose of benefiting the people of Malaysia. In 2015, the intrepid journalist Clare Rewcastle-Brown receives leaked financial documents, setting off a global investigation that uncovers a staggering amount of money being funneled into international bank accounts to fuel Low’s extravagant lifestyle. He now faces charges of money laundering and a slew of other offenses related to the multibillion-dollar 
scandal and is wanted by international authorities. Through director Cassius Michael Kim’s unprecedented access to key individuals involved on both sides of the story, and gripping first-person accounts, Man On The Run exposes a complex web of greed, 
corruption and betrayal that shook an entire nation’s financial stability. Currently jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak, 1MDB whistleblower Xavier André Justo, and journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown who broke the story, are featured in the film. Kim’s meticulous investigation lays bare the extensive repercussions of one of the most colossal financial scandals in history. Jho Low is currently on the run and believed to be hiding in China. Director Cassius Michael Kim (Stockton on My Mind) stops by to talk about the remarkable access he had in the making of this scathing expose on the way dirty money warps the world and how the world’s banking system for adjudicating financial crimes is a broken fraud of an institution.
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About the filmmaker – Cassius Michael Kim is a director, producer, and writer who helped create the CNN Original Series, The Wonder List with Bill Weir. He was the senior producer on the documentary program over its first three seasons, directing and producing half of the show’s twenty documentary hours from locations as diverse as Vanuatu, Madagascar, and Egypt. Prior to joining CNN, Cassius worked at ABC News. He began his career at the independent film production company This is that. Most recently, Kim produced and filmed Stockton On My Mind, in collaboration with Marc Levin’s Blowback Productions and HBO Documentary Films, about Mayor Michael Tubbs Jr. and the city of Stockton, CA. Stockton On My Mind was an official selection at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2020 AFI DOCS Festival and was nominated in the category of Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary for the 2021 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards.
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“An unbelievably spectacular documentary.” – Wade Major, FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
“If you don’t know anything about it, this film offers an exemplary walkthrough of the facts…” – Leslie Felperin, Guardian
“A fine documentary treatment of a wild, true-life story.” – Stephen Silver, The SS Ben Hecht
“It could almost make for a true crime miniseries because it’s so tautly constructed and informative.” – Claudia Puig, FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
“[A] deft documentary…” – Ellen E Jones, Observer (UK)