Taxi to the Dark Side has been shortlisted in the Documentary Feature category for the 2008 Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the custodian of the Oscars, will announce the final five nominations on January 22nd at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles.
Aside from “Taxi,” other films covering the Iraq War that made the list included Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro’s “Body of War,” Charles Ferguson’s “No End in Sight” and Richard Robbins’ “Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience.”
The film focuses on the controversial death in custody of an Afghan Jitney taxi driver named Dilawar. Dilawar was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention at the Bagram Air Force Base.
Director Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”) will be on hand to introduce the film when it screens March 3rd at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario. Tickets are now on sale for this and other films schedule for the 5th Annual Toronto Human Rights Film Festival.
