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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlex Gibney
Written byAlex Gibney
Produced byAlex Gibney
Marc Shmuger
Alexis Bloom
StarringJulian Assange
CinematographyMaryse Alberti
Edited byAndy Grieve
Music byWill Bates
Production
companies		Jigsaw Productions
Global Produce
Distributed byFocus World
Release date
  • January 21, 2013 (2013-01-21) (Sundance)
Running time130 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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. 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.

Release

The film previewed in December 2012, and debuted January 21, 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival. It is scheduled to be released May 24, 2013 in New York and Los Angeles, and widely in June.

Reception

you can have your propaganda page, but it needs to link the O'Brien review

Response from Wikileaks

Wikileaks published a putative transcript of the film, annotated with comments, asserted to be corrections, by Wikileaks. Director Gibney responded that the transcript was incomplete, lacked Bradley Manning's words, and was from an unreleased, incomplete version of the film.

See also

References

  1. ^ We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  2. "We Steal Secrets - The Story Of WikiLeaks (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
  3. Debruge, Peter (January 28, 2013). "Film Reviews:Sundance:We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (Documentary)". Variety. Archived from the original on 2013-03-01. Retrieved March 2, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. Kay, Jeremy (January 23, 2013). "Sundance film festival 2013: We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks". Guardian (UK). Retrieved March 2, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. Kaufman, Anthony (January 22, 2013). "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks". ScreenDaily.com. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  6. "WikiLeaks-Jigsaw: We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks log". Cryptome. January 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  7. "Work: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks". Framestore. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  8. Cieply, Michael (December 19, 2012). "'We Steal Secrets' Is First of WikiLeaks Films". The New York Times. NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  9. "We Steal Secrets will be released May 24". Jigsaw Productions. February 25, 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2013
  10. "Gibney's WikiLeaks doc gets release date". Variety. February 22, 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2013
  11. "WikiLeaks releases transcript of critical US film". Inquirer News. INQUIRER.net. May 25, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  12. "Annotated Transcript of "We Steal Secrets" by Alex Gibney". WikiLeaks. May 24, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  13. Zakarin, Jordan (May 25, 2013). "Alex Gibney Blasts WikiLeaks, Accuses Group Of 'Selectively Editing' Transcript Of His Film". BuzzFeed, Inc. Retrieved May 25, 2013.

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