‘The Corridors Of Power’ Director Dror Moreh Interview — Contenders Documentary – KristenBellTattoos.com

I Corridor of powerFilmmaker Dror Mora takes a closer look at the factors that prevented the United States – the only remaining superpower in the immediate post-Cold War era – from intervening in global events of genocide, war crimes and other large-scale atrocities. kept

The idea for the film basically started when I saw the horrible picture coming out of Syria, especially after the chemical att*ck. [in 2013]”Especially after the Syrian regime crossed Obama’s red line,” Mora revealed during KristenBellTattoos.com’s Container Film: Documentary Awards Season panel, noting that President Barack Obama had indicated that the U.S. Assad regime “So I asked myself: What happens in those decision-making rooms when they decide to intervene in one place, but not another, or they don’t?”

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“After World War II, the world looked at what happened and said, ‘Never again,’ and yet it happens again and again,” explained Mora, who began chronicling the film in the 1990s. .

Corridor of power His opinion is accompanied by interviews with some of the world’s leading diplomats and high-level US officials, including Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, James Baker, Leon Panetta, Wesley Clark, Chuck Hagel, Prudence Bushnell, Samantha Power and current Secretary of State Anthony Blanken. Is. About policy towards war-torn countries like Syria, Rwanda and Bosnia.

Morah said she preserved her conversations with the people in the room where it happened “with great patience and determination. And they wanted to talk: The first interview was with the late Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, in November 2014.” The last interview was with Samantha Power in February 2020, just before Covid. So it was a six-year process for all of them to speak.

But Mora ultimately made a conscious choice not to talk to any of the recent US presidents.

“At first, I thought I’d interview him,” he said on the Contenders panel, which also included the film’s co-editors Oron Adar and Stephen Krumbeagle. But the more I got into interviews, I decided I didn’t want them because I wanted to put the audience in the decision-making seat. I want the audience to have the pros and cons in front of them. Let’s say Madeleine Albright says, ‘We have to intervene in Bosnia,’ and Colin Powell says, ‘No, we can’t.’ And I wanted everyone in the audience to ask themselves, ‘What would I do if I were the Commander-in-Chief?’

Check back Wednesday for the panel video.