Snip from a Vancouver Sun article on some entries in a local film festival.
Filmmakers from two European countries have turned the lens on U.S. malfeasance, shining a light on some its darker corners. Both films track a hero who struggles valiantly to bring a little justice to this world:
The United States portrays itself as the land of freedom, but the film Kill The Messenger by Mathieu Verboud and Jean-Robert Viallet casts serious doubt on that notion. The film from France documents the cold, crass efforts by the powers-that-be in the U.S. to bring down Sibel Edmonds, an American of Iranian and Turkish origin who was hired by the FBI as a translator in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy. She spent months translating high-security clearance documents.
One day, she reported the possible infiltration of her unit by Turkish spies to her supervisors. That act turned her life upside down. She was interrogated, fired and subjected to a relentless campaign of intimidation.
The attractive, articulate Edmonds makes a great heroine in the film. She brings her case to Congress, the 9/11 Commission, the media, the Supreme Court, facing down the FBI, then attorney-general John Ashcroft, Vice-President Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=9f510763-a3b6-4344-86b2-12340e3d727c
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