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Taxi to the Dark Side, Tonight @ 7:30 PM

March 3 | HRWFF Special Guests, Taxi To The Dark Side | julie

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Director Alex Gibney will be in attendance for tonight’s screening of Taxi to the Dark Side at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario. Gibney will introduce the Oscar-winning documentary, which he directed, wrote, produced and narrated.

Michelle Shephard, National Security Reporter for The Toronto Star and author of “Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr,” is the second special guest on the evening’s roster.

Earlier today, Gibney sat down with Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC Radio’s “The Current” to talk about the film. He will appear later tonight on “The Hour” with George Stroumboulopoulous. You can also visit the festival’s del.icio.us page for access to additional audio and video interviews.

Tonight’s screening is sold-out. Taxi to the Dark Side will have an extended run at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto, starting Friday, March 7th.

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Opening Night Screening Sold-Out

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February 27 | A Love During The War, Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame, Chop Shop, El Ejido, Taxi To The Dark Side, These Girls, We'll Never Meet Childhood Again | julie

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The opening night screening of Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame is sold-out. Hana Maklmalbaf’s award-winning film of a tiny Afghani girl who wants to go to school has been a hit on the festival circuit winning awards at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the Berlinale.

Unfortunately, the film’s director could not be present for the screening. She did, however, send a message, which will be read by the festival’s chair, Helga Stephenson.

Taxi to the Dark Side, which screens March 3rd with director Alex Gibney in attendance is also sold-out as is Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop. Chop Shop opened in NYC this week to rave reviews.

Tickets to the Sunday matinée presentation of We’ll Never See Childhood Again are still available as are tickets to El Ejido, The Law of Profit, These Girls and A Love During The War.

Taxi To The Dark Side Wins at Oscars

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February 25 | Taxi To The Dark Side | julie

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Taxi To The Dark Side, director Alex Gibney’s look at the US policy on torture in Afghanistan and Iraq, won the Oscar for “Best Outstanding Documentary Feature” at last night’s awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

In accepting the award, Gibney said, “Here’s to all doc filmmakers,” and then went on to dedicate the award to Dilawar, the Afghan cab driver whose death provides the film with its throughline and title, and to his own late father, a former Navy interrogator, noting “his fury about what was being done to the rule of law.”

Taxi to the Dark Side was one of three nominees that touched on the war in Iraq.

Gibney will be in attendance at the March 3rd screening of Taxi to the Dark Side at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, part of the 5th Annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

Some tickets still remain for the screening. Call 416-968-FILM (3456) for more information.

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Video: Human Rights Watch

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February 8 | Taxi To The Dark Side | julie

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Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch speaks out against against abuses perpetrated and condoned by the Bush administration on the news program Democracy Now!

Later, on the same show, Amy Goodman interviews Taxi to the Dark Side director Alex Gibney.

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Khadr Author To Speak At Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival

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February 5 | 2008 Film Festival, HRWFF Special Guests, Taxi To The Dark Side | julie

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Michelle Shephard, National Security Reporter for The Toronto Star, and author of “Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr” (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) will be a guest speaker at the Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival on March 3rd when she will introduce Taxi to the Dark Side director Alex Gibney.

The Oscar-nominated Taxi to the Dark Side has been lauded as a “chilling indictment” on the use of torture in the “war on terror.”

Toronto-born Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at the age of 15 after a firefight with U.S. forces. The Pentagon has charged Khadr with five war crimes, including the murder of Christopher Speer, a Delta Force soldier and medic who died 10 days after the firefight from grenade wounds.

Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch along with Amnesty International, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and Human Rights First sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to formally request that the United States either try Mr. Khadr under juvenile justice rules or send him back to Canada.

Mr. Khadr is the only Westerner still held in Guantanamo Bay, and the U.S. administration has previously indicated that even his acquittal in a military court may not necessarily mean he would be released.

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