The Correspondent

The Correspondent is a 2024 biographical legal thriller directed by Kriv Stenders from a screenplay by Peter Duncan. The film stars Richard Roxburgh, Julian Maroun, Rahel Romahn, Yael Stone, and Mojean Aria. The plot focuses on Australian foreign correspondent and journalist Peter Greste, who was arrested in Cairo and held in an Egyptian prison for nearly two years, and is adapted from Greste's 2017 memoir The First Casualty. The Correspondent had its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival on 23 October 2024, and was theatrically released in Australia on 17 April 2025.