We Steal Secrets
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| Directed by | Alex Gibney |
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| Produced by | Alex Gibney Marc Shmuger Alexis Bloom |
| Written by | Alex Gibney |
| Starring | Julian Assange, Heather Brooke |
| Music by | Will Bates |
| Cinematography | Maryse Alberti |
| Edited by | Andy Grieve |
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Jigsaw Productions
Global Produce |
| Distributed by | Focus World |
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130 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $457,517 |
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, and includes considerable background material.
The film previewed in December 2012, and debuted January 21, 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was scheduled to be released May 24, 2013 in New York and Los Angeles, and widely in June.
We Steal Secrets has been widely praised by film reviewers, with film review site Rotten Tomatoes noting that 92% of critics have reviewed the film positively. Nonetheless it has been criticized by journalists and professors including Chris Hedges,Alexa O'Brien, and Robert Manne who was interviewed in the documentary.
Hollywood Reporter writer David Rooney found the film to be a "tremendously fascinating story told with probing insight and complexity". David Edelstein of New York Magazine wrote that the film is a "twisty, probing, altogether enthralling movie," adding that it is "a documentary with the overflowing texture of fiction." Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who calls the film "riveting and revelatory," notes that the director "lines up an A-list of experts, observers, cohorts, and adversaries, tracing how Assange's and Manning's worlds collide - virtually, and violently - and how a noble quest for transparency and truth turned into a tale of conspiracy and paranoia."
We Steal Secrets was among five films nominated for the 2013 International Documentary Association ABC News Videosource Award.
Robert Manne, who was interviewed in the film, considered it to be a "superficially impressive but ultimately myopic film". He detailed his criticism in The Monthly. Based on this article Manne and Gibney had a written debate.
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