Participant Prod & Magnolia join forces for Gibney docu

Multi-tasker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) is about to embark on one busy year – the documentary filmmaker has not one, not two – but potentially three films that will receive theatrical releases this year. Variety reports that Participant Productions and Magnolia Pictures (who distributed the Enron doc) are pairing up on Alex Gibney's Burning down the House a docu that looks at the murky world of political lobbying and 

This is a subject that has caused huge controversy in the US since political lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sent to prison after being convicted on a series of criminal felony counts relating to his lobbying activities. The film is now in post-production and will follow in the footsteps of Thinkfilm's January release of Taxi to the Dark Side and Sundance festival premiere of Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter Thompson.

Taxi is an investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration. By probing the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film exposes a worldwide policy of detention and interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of human rights.