Hollywood luminaries Brad Pitt , Joaquin Phoenix , Rooney Mara , Alfonso Cuaron and Jonathan Glazer are among heavyweights to get behind Gaza drama The Voice Of Hind Rajab ahead of its Venice Film Festival world premiere, Deadline has learned.

The Oscar winners and Oscar nominee Mara have joined the Tunisian project as executive producers after being impressed by a recent cut of the film. The film’s end credits reveal that Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner’s Plan B get an In Association credit, as does the UK’s Film4 and Middle East studio MBC.

Among other high-profile public figures to have joined the project as exec producers are journalist turned producer Jemima Khan, Canadian businessman and former Lionsgate founder Frank Giustra, and jewelry designer and socialite Sabine

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