Alumni take ‘Taxi’ to Oscar’s red carpet
For Executive Producer Donald Glascoff ’67, the Oscar he received Sunday night for best documentary is more than just a pretty statuette — it is also a vindication of his decision to abandon, mid-life, his career as a lawyer and take up public-service filmmaking on a whim.
“Taxi to the Dark Side,” which was written and directed by fellow Eli Alex Gibney ’77, details the experience of an innocent taxi driver tortured and killed at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. It has received wide critical acclaim for its treatment of current policies on torture and interrogation...
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