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Indiewire talks with Greg Barker.
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BY INDIEWIRE
J ANUARY 9, 2013 12: 19 PM
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Meet the 2013 Sundance Filmmakers #8: GregBarker Tracks Down Osama bin Laden'sHunters in 'Manhunt'
"Manhunt" director Greg Barker has spent much of his life
as a grown man overseas, as a journalist then filmmaker.
The 9/11 event shifted his interest largely to stories
between Islamic fundamentalism and the U.S.
government. He was pressed to ask the question about
what we had learned on the eve that Osama bin Laden
was captured and killed -- not just about our enemy, but
about our own nation. If "Zero Dark Thirty" caught your
attention, consider "Manhunt" essential viewing.
What It's About: "A tale of espionage and the moralchoices of war, as revealed by the insiders who led the
CIA’s secret war against Al Qaeda and the hunt for Osama bin Laden."
What It's REALLY About: "I was surprised to discover that many of the bin Laden hunters, from the mid-90sonwards, were women. The broad strokes of their journey are incredible: they were the first to identify bin Laden as a
threat, back in the mid-90s, they warned repeatedly that he was going to launch a huge attack on America, then after
9/11 they were the ones who were blamed for letting it happen. Some were dispirited, and some later died in the fight
-- but this top-secret “Sisterhood” formed the core of the unit that ultimately tracked bin Laden to Abbottabad."
My Biggest Challenge: "Access. Most of the characters in the film spent their professional lives working in theshadows for the CIA. Tracking these individuals down, building their trust, and convincing them to tell their stories on
camera was a long, labor-intensive process that involved face-to-face meetings around the world, from Washington
DC to Jordan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. The CIA had no approval over the content of the film, though the
interviewees themselves had to make sure they weren’t revealing any classified information. In several cases,
including a key breakthrough in the hunt for bin Laden, our interviewees were able to get information cleared to
publicly discuss for the first time."
I Want You To Walk Away With Questions: "I’d likepeople get a sense of complicated, morally ambiguous
journey that led to the raid on Abbottabad. Are coercive
interrogations torture? When, if ever, is it OK to use these
techniques against a terrorist? What moral criteria do you
employ when hunting down an individual for a kill/capture
operation? The CIA operatives and analysts making
these choices were usually not trained soldiers - they
were, in many ways, a lot like the rest of us. I hope the
film presents the hunt for Bin Laden as a set of
choices...and audiences ask themselves what they would
do if faced with those choices themselves."
What I Shot On: Sony F3.
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Up Next: "I have a narrative feature in development for HBO Films, "A Rope and Prayer," based on the book by NewYork Times correspondent David Rhode and his wife Kristen Mulvihill, about Rhode’s seven-month captivity in the
tribal areas of Pakistan, as well as a feature-film version of "Sergio," and "Revolution," a feature documentary about
the promise and perils of revolutions in the internet age."
Indiewire invited Sundance Film Festival directors to tell us about their films, including what inspired them,the challenges they faced and what they're doing next. We'll be publishing their responses leading up to the2013 festival.
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