Park City (Utah), January 27: Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s one-time driver who spent seven years locked up at Guantanamo, is in the spotlight once again, this time in a documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
The second part of Laura Poitras’s trilogy on post-September 11, 2001 America, “The Oath” is competing for a prize at the independent cinema showcase nestled in the mountains of Utah through Sunday.
Her first piece in the series, “My Country, My Country” (2006) earned Poitras an Academy Award nomination.
“As a filmmaker, it makes me nervous to release this film because I know how it can be seen in different ways,” she said in an interview.
“But I knew it from the beginning. It is so politically incorrect to make a movie about terrorism.
–PTI