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I first heard about Mohamedou Ould Slahi in December 2014, when my then-Guardian editor, Mustafa Khalili, commissioned me to make a short animated film about [Slahi’s] bestselling memoir, Guantánamo Diary. It was through that project that I met Mohamedou’s attorney, Nancy Hollander, and we later began discussing the possibility of making a longer-term documentary together.

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