Oscar-Winning Director Asif Kapadia “Spent Decade On U.S. Watch List After Taxi Driver Reported Him”
deadline.comBritish film director Asif Kapadia was, for a decade, on a “watch list” that saw him stopped and interviewed every time he tried to enter the U.S.
The Oscar-winning director of the documentary Amy told this weekend’s Guardian newspaper his experience began after he travelled back from New York in the early 2000s, and a taxi driver observed him taking photos of the city-scape on the way to the airport.
Kapadia, already a BAFTA winner by then for his debut feature The Warrior, told the newspaper: “I get to the airport and I’m in the Virgin lounge when my name is called out.
And I thought: ‘Have I left a bag or something?’ But then five or six people come: homeland security. And they stop me in the lounge in front of everyone, the only person of colour in there, and empty out my bag, and they say: ‘Someone’s reported you.
Read more on deadline.com
