Cinema Libre Studio Completes Production on Truth-Telling Detainee Feature Film ‘I Am Gitmo’

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updated: Sep 28, 2021 13:45 PDT

LOS ANGELES,
September 28, 2021(Newswire.com) –

Cinema Libre Studio finished creation on a element movie depicting for the 1st time the remedy Guantanamo’s Arab prisoners obtained upon detainment for the duration of America’s War on Terror. Sammy Sheik (“American Sniper,” “NCIS: Los Angeles”) stars as detainee Gamel Sadek with Eric Pierpoint (“Liar, Liar,” “Alien Nation”) as his interrogator. Penned and directed by Philippe Diaz (“The End of Poverty?,” “Now and Later on”), founder of Cinema Libre Studio, the film is based on an primary thought derived from correct accounts.

Motivated by the declassified lawful hearings of preceding detainees, the story revolves close to an Egyptian man dwelling in Afghanistan with his household when he is kidnapped from his household and shipped to the CIA below suspicion of terrorism in 2002. Despatched to Bagram Air Base, he is brutally interrogated and tortured, even with his statements of innocence, then flown to Guantanamo where his standing as an “enemy combatant” incurs extra brutal cure.

Sammy Sheik, who is of Egyptian descent, says, “the narrative is being informed from the level of watch of 1 of the quite a few victims of the so-termed ‘War on Terror’ and the grave injustices he and numerous other people experienced to endure, with no the normal idolization of the western hero that Hollywood had been presenting for many years.” 

Eric Pierpoint plays the purpose of an growing old interrogator who returns to obligation to find that new, “improved interrogation solutions” are now acceptable when beforehand forbidden by the Geneva Convention. This forces him to select among his nation and spiritual beliefs more than fairness and compassion. Pierpoint suggests, “This movie will display how horrific and consistent the use of torture is at American black internet sites and Gitmo, from suspected Arab terrorists, despite international conventions.”

Writer-director Philippe Diaz sees the movie “as a response to ‘The Mauritanian’ and other Hollywood movies on the issue that transform their lenses absent from the horrific and prolonged experiences of the detainees.”

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was founded on Jan. 11, 2002, by the Bush Administration following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Of the 780 people detained there, 731 have been transferred elsewhere, 1 was produced in July 2021, 9 have died while in custody, and 39 stay.

In accordance to CloseGuantanamo.org, the camp was a place to hold prisoners “outside the access of the U.S. courts … where torture and abuse have been practiced, and it remains a location in which those held are … men without the need of legal rights subjected to indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial, whose release can only occur about through the whim of the president.”

Yesterday signifies the 7,200th working day given that prisoners have been held in the camp.

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Source: Cinema Libre Studio