3.5.10
Last week, I had an email out of the blue from Jeremy Varon, a Professor of History at the New School for Social Research in NYC and a member of Witness Against Torture, the campaigning organization that screened the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) at [...]
28.4.10
I’m pleased to report that Monday night’s screening of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” at the Free Word Centre on Farringdon Road was a great success. The screening took place as part of the London International Documentary Festival, and featured an excellent panel for the post-screening Q&A session — former [...]
25.4.10
Ahead of Monday’s screening of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) at the London International Documentary Festival, Joe Burnham has given the film a great review in Time Out:
[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American [...]
9.2.10
Over the weekend, Polly Nash and I, co-directors of the new Guantánamo documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” travelled to Oslo, where our film had been chosen as part of the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film Festival.
Organized by Oslo Dokumentarkino and the Human Rights House Network of human rights organizations, the festival, which [...]
21.6.09
On Saturday, I was honoured to be invited along as a guest speaker at an event entitled, “Exile: Dreams and Nightmares” at the BFI (British Film Institute), part of an impressive week-long programme to mark Refugee Week. Saturday’s event featured four powerful documentaries by Mohamed Maklouf, a film-maker, journalist and Libyan exile, including “Home In [...]
23.7.08
On Sunday July 13, I had the pleasure of taking part in a panel discussion, following a special preview screening at the Curzon Cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue, of Standard Operating Procedure, a documentary about the Abu Ghraib scandal by acclaimed film-maker Errol Morris. The event was organized by the Frontline Club, an excellent journalists’ club [...]
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