"What We Really Seem To Be Documenting...Is A Concerted Shift Away From An America That Sees Itself As A Land Of Immigrants Towards Something Else": Andrés Caballero And Sofian Khan On Their DOC NYC Premiering The Interpreters

With anti-immigrant sentiment on the rise globally, and with a U.S. president who champions a ban on all Muslims to this country, Andrés Caballero and Sofian Khan's (IFP-supported) The Interpreters serves as a timely corrective, to say the least. Their up-close-and-personal doc follows three men from Iraq and Afghanistan (and one American sergeant fighting the byzantine U.S. bureaucracy on behalf of his Baghdadi friend) who served U.S. troops as interpreters -- not "translators," since their ro...