We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Dirección: Alex Gibney
Producción: Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger, Alexis Bloom.
Guión: Alex Gibney
Música: Will Bates
Fotografía: Maryse Alberti
Montaje: Andy Grieve
Producido por: Jigsaw Productions, Global Produce.
País de producción: E.E.U.U.
Idioma: Inglés con subtítulos en castellano (muy pobres, por ahora)
Año: 2013
Duración: 130 min.
We Steal Scecrets: The Story of WikiLeaks es el título de este interesante documental que se introduce de lleno a uno de los temás más controversiales de los últimos años. El documental narra la historia de WikiLeaks desde sus inicios, contada por su propio creador, Julian Assange. La dirección estuvo a cargo de Alex Gibney, que ya ha dirigido otros documentales como Catching Hell y The Last Gladiators.*1
Fue para muchos una de las mejores películas disfrutadas en Sundance 2013. Se trata del documental que Alex Gibney dedica al enigmático fundador de WikiLeaks. "We Steal Secrets - The Story of WikiLeaks" cuenta la historia de cómo Julian Assange creó y robó los secretos de naciones para revelarlos en la red. "La verdad tendrá consecuencias". Es lo que nos promete, tanto el nuevo póster. como el primer tráiler de uno de los documentales más esperados (y aclamados) del año. Y con ellos llegó el escándalo...*2
WikiLeaks es la organización mediática fundada por Julian Paul Assange, dedicada a la filtración y publicación de documentos de interés publico a través de la web. Desde su lanzamiento en el 2006 han logrado publicar aproximadamente 2 millones de documentos, algunos de los cuales dejan ver comportamientos poco éticos de los gobiernos, como son: el video del tiroteo a periodistas (13 de julio del 2007), los diarios de Guerra de Afganistán (25 de julio del 2010) y los registros de la guerra de Irak (22 de octubre 2010), entre otros. Uno de los casos mas notables fue la filtración de comunicados entre el Departamento de Estado Norteamericano con embajadas de todo el mundo a la prensa internacional; este suceso fue llamado “La filtración más grande de secretos en la historia”.
Después de estas publicaciones Julian Paul Assange y WikiLeaks se vieron envueltos en una serie de escándalos, multas, juicios y arrestos al rededor de todo el mundo. Es por eso que Universal Pictures y Focus World deciden llevar por primera vez esta historia a la pantalla grande y contarnos la verdad detrás de este controversial sitio y su creador. En este nuevo nuevo documental titulado “We Steal Secreats: The Story of WikiLeaks”, dirigido por Alex Gibney, podremos ver desde los inicios de la compañía hasta los enfrentamientos con el pentágono por la filtración de información confidencial y vital para el estado.*3
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a 2013 American independent documentary film about the organization started by Julian Assange, and people involved in the collection and distribution of secret information and media by whistleblowers. It covers a period of several decades, including considerable background.
Synopsis
The 1989 WANK worm attack on NASA computers, originally thought to threaten the Galileo spacecraft, is depicted as the work of Australian hackers, including Assange. The founding of Wikileaks in 2006 is followed by coverage of several key events: its 2009-2010 leaks about the Icelandic financial collapse, Swiss banking tax evasion, Kenyan government corruption, toxic-waste dumping, Bradley Manning's communications with Adrian Lamo, uploads to Wikileaks of the Iraq and Afghanistan war documents, diplomatic cables, and video, exposure to the FBI by Lamo, and the accusations of sexual assault made against Assange. Interview subjects include Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, James Ball, Donald Bostom, Nick Davies, Mark Davis, Jason Edwards, Michael Hayden, Adrian Lamo, J. William Leonard, Gavin MacFadyen, Smári McCarthy, Iain Overton, and Vaughan Smith.
Production
Assange did not participate in the production, so previously recorded interviews were used.[4] Manning was also unavailable. John Young and Deborah Natsios of Cryptome contributed contacts and research material, but after lengthy negotiations, ultimately declined to be interviewed for the film. About 35 minutes of chat animations, headline effects, and other visual effects were designed and rendered by Framestore in New York.
Reception
According to the film's executive producer Jemima Khan, We Steal Secrets was "denounced before seeing" by Assange, who tweeted "an unethical and biased title in the context of pending criminal trials. It is the prosecution’s claim and it is false." Khan asserts the title is based on a quote in the film "from Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA, who told Gibney that the US government was in the business of 'stealing secrets' from other countries".
In the UK Guardian, Jeremy Kay gave the film 3 of 5 stars, noting that though the film explored facts and themes thoroughly and thoughtfully, and provided "insightful commentary" from government, media, and Wikileaks insiders, the film revealed little about Assange, who remained unavailable to be interviewed by the director. Kay wrote, "It's probably too soon for a meaningful perspective on the WikiLeaks saga."
Hollywood Reporter writer David Rooney found the film to be a "tremendously fascinating story told with probing insight and complexity." In Variety, Peter Debruge found the film "dramatically lacking" a central core conflict, especially when compared with Gibney's previous work. Like Kay in the Guardian, Debruge found Manning's story the most compelling part of the film.
Screen Daily's Anthony Kaufman wrote that the film "lacks the emotional weight" of Gibney’s previous documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, but it has "the same high level of exhaustive research and engaging storytelling". Jordan Smith of IONCinema.com gave the film 4 of 5 stars,Indiewire "Criticwire" critics Anne Thompson and Ryland Aldrich each graded the film "A-".
Alexa O'Brien, the journalist who for her coverage of the Bradley Manning pre-trial was short listed for the 2013 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, reviewed the film. She wrote, "If We Steal Secrets or the subsequent Q & A with director, Alex Gibney, revealed anything, it's that the filmmaker is quite uninformed about the trial of Bradley Manning. He can barely speak on the topic or on that of the largest criminal probe of a publisher and its source in history."*4
Fuentes de información: *1 Movie Cine , *2 Filmin, *3 The City Loves You, *4 Wikipedia, The Pirate Bay, Open Subtitles.
