Taxi to the Dark Side

From the producer of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Who Killed the Electric Car? comes a documentary that takes a critical look at the Bush administration's policy on torture by investigating the death of an Afghan taxi driver who, after being taken into custody by American soldiers at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002, suffered fatal injuries at the hands of U.S. soldiers. Compelled to finally unearth the truth about the mysterious fate of the deceased taxi driver, filmmaker Alex Gibney takes viewers on an illuminating journey from a tiny Afghani village to Guantanamo Bay to Abu Ghraib, and ultimately the White House, to explore why the man who turned up in the morgue wasn't the only victim to fall prey to the Bush administration's controversial foreign policy. By examining the sad fate of the wrongly accused, the toll that the War on Terror has taken on an exhausted United States military, and Justice Department official John Yoo's internal memo concerning interrogation techniques, Taxi to the Dark Side encourages viewers to weigh out the issues for themselves, and never accept what's told to them on face value. Combining the cool detachment of a forensic expert with the heated indignation of a proud American who holds his country to a high standard, Gibney's film reveals how the Bush administration has systematically betrayed the very ideals it professes to uphold. Academy Award, Best Documentary.

FILM TITLE (Spanish): TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE
FILM TITLE (Original): TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE
FILM TITLE (English): TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA
YEAR OF COMPLETION: 2007
RUNNING TIME: 106 min.
FORMAT/COLOR/BW: 35mm, color
LANGUAGE: English/ Spanish Subtitles
Director: Alex Gibney
Producers: Susannah Shipman, Alex Gibney, Eva Orner
Cinematography: Maryse Alberti, Greg Andracke
Editing: Sloane Klevin
Music: Ivor Guest
Featuring: Moazzam Begg, William Brand, Jack Cloonan, Damien Corsetti,
Ken Davis, Carlotta Gall, Timothy Golden

Director’s Biography
Alex Gibney is the writer, producer and director of the 2006 Oscar-nominated film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which also received the Independent Spirit Award and the WGA Award. A graduate of Yale University (B.A.), Gibney also attended the UCLA Graduate School of Film and Television. In 2003, Gibney served as the Series Producer for The Blues, an Emmy-nominated series of seven films in association with executive producer Martin Scorsese.