Check out this article by Michael Fox on SF360 about Judith Ehrlich’s upcoming project on Iceland and the future of free speech: “Iceland: The Mouse that Roared”.
Judith Ehrlich was quick to leap at the idea of a documentary about WikiLeaks honcho Julian Assange. Too quick, it turned out. “I pitched it to HBO in June [2010] and no one had ever heard of him,” recalled the co-director (with Rick Goldsmith) of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, the Academy Award-nominated doc about another famous whistleblower. Then U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was busted and placed in solitary confinement for allegedly supplying classified information to WikiLeaks. “By summer, when I came back, lots of people knew about [Assange],” Ehrlich wryly observed. “In the meantime, lots of people got on the story.”
