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Thomas Selim Wallner is an award-winning German film-maker, working in Canada.[1][2] Wallner was a co-founder of Xenophile Media in 2001.[3] He has worked with Rhombus Media since 1995.
His documentary, The Guantanamo Trap won the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Hot Docs film festival.[4][5][6] Wallner won a Gemini Award for writing for Beethoven's Hair.[3]
Wallner described being put on the "no-fly list" in 2005, after declining to submit to an iris-scan when he tried to travel to the USA.[2] He stated this was his inspiration for The Guantanamo Trap.
References
- ↑ "Documentary holds up four-sided mirror to Guantanamo Bay". Deutche Welle. 2011-08-29. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15350682,00.html. Retrieved 2011-11-18. "In Spain, criminal prosecution lawyer Gonzalo Boye, a victim of police torture himself after being sentence to 14 years in prison for allegedly assisting a kidnapping by a terrorist organization, has been working on a case against the Bush administration for unlawful detention and war crimes, including torture." mirror
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Joanna Lavoie (2011-04-29). "The Guantanamo Trap is about people, not politics, says its director". Inside Toronto. http://www.insidetoronto.com/what%27s%20on/article/1000156--the-guantanamo-trap-is-about-people-not-politics-says-its-director. Retrieved 2011-11-19. "Wallner said he first started thinking about this concept when he attempted to travel to the United States, after former president George W. Bush was reelected, to research a film on Mozart. His refusal to give up his biometric data by submitting to an eye scan at Pearson International Airport resulted in an interrogation, the withholding of his passport and his placement on the American "terror list." More than five years later, Wallner's name has now been removed from that list." mirror
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Thomas Wallner – NATP 1991-92". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. http://www.academy.ca/programs/programs_natp_wall_wallner.cfm. "Thomas also brought his expertise to the creation of the online documentary Beethoven’s Hair, which accompanied the feature film of the same title for which Thomas won a Gemini Award for “Best Writing in a Documentary”." mirror
- ↑ "The Guantanamo trap". Hot Docs. 2011-05-26. http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/guantanamo_trap_the. Retrieved 2011-11-19. "Taxi to the Dark Side and Standard Operating Procedure hallmark a growing catalogue of documentaries emerging from the War on Terror. The Guantanamo Trap is a vital addition, highlighting four interconnected biographies that reveal the impact of gross injustice." mirror
- ↑ "HotDocs 2011: The Guantanamo Trap". Hot Docs. 2011-05-23. http://www.rowthree.com/2011/05/23/hotdocs-2011-the-guantanamo-trap/. Retrieved 2011-11-18. "Not that you need to be completely even-handed when discussing torture, but it’s quite fascinating to hear Diane Beaver (appointed legal advisor to the camp command at Guantanamo in early 2002) talk about why she wrote that initial memo and why she does not believe that any of those techniques bordered on torture (by what she terms as “any definition” of the word you’d care to name). The film itself is quite careful to never explicitly state that any of these methods are actually torture, but it’s hard to escape that conclusion when you hear people who have experienced it talk to the camera about it." mirror
- ↑ "Documentaries, Current Affairs & Politics, People & Society". First hand films. http://www.firsthandfilms.com/index.php?film=1000345. mirror
