Ahead Of Guantanamo Bay Prison Anniversary, Cinema Libre Studio Acquires Doc About Detainee Who Inspired ‘The Mauritanian’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: A day before the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, Cinema Libre Studio announced the acquisition of a documentary about one of the most famous men to be held at the U.S.-operated prison.Guantanamo Diary Revisited recounts the experience of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a citizen of Mauritania, who was imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay facility from 2002 to 2016, accused by American authorities of aiding al Qaeda.
He was never charged with a crime. Slahi told his story in Guantanamo Diary, a memoir that was adapted into the 2021 film The Mauritanian, starring Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shailene Woodley.Cinema Libre Studio intends to release Guantanamo Diary Revisited, directed by journalist John Goetz, in North America on March 29.
But on Tuesday the studio will present a virtual sneak preview of the documentary two decades to the day after the Bush administration opened the Gitmo prison in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
The administration chose the site on the southeastern tip of Cuba to house and interrogate alleged “enemy combatants” in the loosely-defined Global War on Terror (the U.S.
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