Oscar and Peabody Award-Winning Documentary Taxi to the Dark Side added two Emmys to its list of accolades and honors Sunday, taking home trophies for Best Documentary and Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research. The film, co-produced and edited by Sloane Klevin of bicoastal Union Editorial, also received a nod for Oustanding Investigative Journalism-Long Form.
Taxi to the Dark Side, which had its U.S. television premiere on HBO last September and is available on DVD, is a feature-length documentary about an Afghan cabbie who died in U.S. military custody. The film raises disturbing questions about interrogation techniques and U.S. wartime policies. It earned director/writer Alex Gibney his first Oscar, and marked his second Academy Award nomination, following 2005′s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
Currently, Klevin is cutting Gibney’s section of the feature documentary "Freakonomics." Based on the best-selling book, the film is comprised of five 20-minute chapters, each from a different award-winning documentary filmmaker (Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Eugene Jarecki, and Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady). Gibney’s segment is about corruption in Sumo wrestling and was shot in Japan.
Klevin’s recent work includes a campaign for the second season of HBO’s critically acclaimed series "True Blood," directed by Maurice Marable of Believe Media, and a short film for the Glamour Woman of the Year Awards, also helmed by Marable. On the commercial front, she cut a 5-spot Chico’s campaign for director Peggy Sirota (Pretty Bird) and currently is editing a Nestle’s spot for director Lauren Greenfield of Chelsea Pictures via JWT/NY.
Photo: Marc Bryan-Brown Photography
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