Taxi to the Dark Side

Director, writer, producer and narrator Alex Gibney has made a gripping documentary investigation into the homicide of a taxi driver at the U.S. Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan shortly following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. One of fifteen documentary films selected for the "short list" of titles competing in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 80th Academy Awards, TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE dissects the progression of the current U.S. government's policy on torture from the secret role of key administration figures to the soldiers in the field.

TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE, which was filmed in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and various U.S. locations, is Gibney's directorial follow-up to ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (Academy Award nomination), and made its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary. Gibney spoke about the film in a recorded conversation with Camera Cinema Club Director Tim Sika which was followed by a gr (Full review)