Women in Film Dallas members are invited to attend an early screening of Official Secrets. The free screening is put on by IFC Films. It will take place Tuesday, July 30th 7 PM at the Angelika Film Center - Dallas. This is to celebrate National Whistleblowers Day!
Members need to RSVP by Sunday, July 28th. Members must show up before 6:45 PM to guarantee their seats.
(USA, 2019, 112 min.)
Tuesday, July 30th 7pm, Angelika Film Center - Dallas
She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain’s help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm’s way.
DIR: Gavin Hood
Watch the trailer here.
