MUMBAI: HBO Documentary Films has lapped up the domestic TV rights of the feature-length documentary My Trip to Al Qaeda.
The film, directed by Oscar winner Alex Gibney, described as part documentary and part performance piece, is a joint venture of Gibney and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Lawrence Wright.
Based on Wright‘s one-man play and developed from Wright‘s 2006 book ‘The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11‘ My Trip to Al Qaeda chronicles fundamentalist Islam‘s rise to power and the dilemma he faces as a writer in maintaining his objective.
The film, a 2010 Tribeca Film Festival selection and HBO‘s second collaboration with Gibney will be shown on HBO in fall 2010.
