How to transform a 6,700-page Congressional report into a gripping, suspenseful drama is what the independent filmmaker Scott Z. Burns achieved with his new film, The Report.
The film, produced by Amazon and released last month, received a scathing denunciation from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who was CIA boss during the period portrayed in the film. He called it fiction. Or rather he called the programme of CIA interrogation and torture depicted in the 6,700-page report a fiction.
