Gaddafi hosts a beauty pageant. Yes, really. The desert gets weird.
BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD charts the journey of 19 year old Tecca Zendik, a contestant in the Miss Net World contest, Libya's first every beauty competition. Colonel Muammar Qaddafi hosts this competition and the film includes extraordinary footage of the Colonel. Tecca's story reveals an incredible conclusion no-one could have guessed when private jests transported the beauties to the country feared by the West in the 1980's.
Direction
Brettkelly's access to Gaddafi is genuinely unprecedented
Production
Footage from inside 2003 Libya feels like time travel
Director
Pietra Brettkelly
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Pietra Brettkelly spent months negotiating access through Gaddafi's cultural attaché, eventually filming inside his tent compound.
The 2003 pageant coincided with Libya's diplomatic rehabilitation — Saif's Western-educated presence was deliberate rebranding that aged horrifically.
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