The New Hope and Crosby

From today's Studio Briefing (0ver at IMDB):

British director Michael Winterbottom told a news conference at the Berlin Film Festival today (Tuesday) that he hopes his film, The Road to Guantánamo, will expose the U.S. prison in Cuba as a "P.R. front" -- an effort by the U.S. to show that it has captured al-Qaeda terrorists and prevented them from carrying out plots against the U.S. Those actually believed to be terrorists, Winterbottom charged, have been removed from Guantánamo and shunted to secret prisons overseas for further interrogation. The film tells the story of three British citizens who were captured in Afghanistan and spent two years at Guantánamo before being released without charges ever being filed against them. Two of the men, Shafiq Rasul and Ruhel Ahmed, appeared at today's press conference and said that they continue to face ostracism from many members of the British Muslim community who regard them as traitors. They suggested that they hope the film will clear their names. Winterbottom said that it will be screened first on Britain's Channel 4, which funded it, in March and that he is still looking for theatrical distributors.