![]() Which is nonsense, we are not personally loyal to you Mr. We have a Presidency here in this country now which is demanding personal loyalty. It was a matter of invading a sovereign nation which had done absolutely nothing to harm our nation or the US, therefore, I felt that the poor Iraq civilians, who we now know have died in the hundreds of thousands if not millions, still would be potentially living today. On this occasion, we are not just talking about issues that have to do with economic development or trade negotiation, this was a matter of life or death and a matter of war and peace. And she said, ‘well, there are dirty tricks and there are dirty tricks. That is what that world is about and presumably, you knew it’. She had to testify after all these events, before a Parliamentary committee, and the chairman said, ‘you were at GCHQ and I imagine it gets involved in all kinds of dirty tricks. You mentioned Katherine the spy, but I believe the reason audiences connected so much with the movie, is because you show her more like a girl who had a special talent, who got a good job near her house and got into the heart of a monster without really being interested in being a spy and just reacted as a normal person. ![]() They have all seen the film in London and I am pleased to say we have their support. The journalists and Katherine the spy are all alive, as is Emerson, the lawyer that Ralph Fiennes plays. And as you know, the film is about a number of investigative journalists who are very talented and work for some of the best newspapers like The Guardian and The Observer in London. Because this kind of film needs a platform release and I think it needs nurturing and it needs to generate conversation amongst for example investigative journalists. And I think they will be a fantastic resource for us in knowing how to get the movie up into the world. They are a New York-based distribution company and I am very pleased because, in conversations, they totally understand the tone and feeling of the movie. And it still wasn’t done and it continued for a few more days and we are very excited that IFC came through as the ultimate buyer. But there were three buyers that were competing with each other and I was hoping that the buying, bidding would be resolved by the next morning but it went through the night. I don’t believe I should say who they were now, because it’s not fair on the others. We also know that this is a film that has a political element to it and sometimes people can be very divided. Because you never know when you make a film how an audience will respond. It was very moving and very surprised and probably as you noticed I was deeply moved. How surprising and how moving was it for you? I was surprised that no one reported on the standing ovation you got when you came out to the stage at the premiere in Sundance. This is what the South African director of films like Eye in the Sky, Ender’s Game, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Rendition, and Tsotsi told us after returning from the snow. A tense thriller about a whistleblower ( Keira Knightley) in a British spy agency, who decides to leak a secret memo after realizing it contains a directive to blackmail members of the UN Security Council into supporting the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Official Secrets also stars Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, Matt Smith and Rhys Ifans. Not surprisingly the film sold to IFC a few days later for US distribution. A standing ovation lasted so long that Hood tried to speak several times before having to ask the enthusiastic audience to stop so he could start the Q&A. The reviewers who wrote about Official Secrets after its Sundance premiere must have left by the time the credits finished rolling and the director of the film, Golden Globe nominee and Oscar winner Gavin Hood, came out to the stage.
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