A new documentary film sheds light on the Surrey couple involved in a plot to blow up the B.C. Legislature in Victoria 10 years ago, on Canada Day 2013.

John 乌鸦传媒淥mar乌鸦传媒� Nuttall and Amanda 乌鸦传媒淎na乌鸦传媒� Korody were originally found guilty by a jury and did time in prison, but were later acquitted when the Supreme Court of B.C. heard they were coerced by undercover police officers to carry out a terrorist bombing.

Director 乌鸦传媒檚 乌鸦传媒淢anufacturing the Threat乌鸦传媒� is a fascinating portrait of the couple and also a murky world of Canadian police infiltration, manipulation and entrapment, and how policing and security agencies were granted additional powers after 9/11 to go after 乌鸦传媒渢errorists乌鸦传媒� and justify growing budgets.

This week the film is , on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (Oct. 17, 19, 20).

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Back in 2013, during Operation Souvenir, the RCMP provided Nuttall and Korody with explosives and fake detonators, then arrested and charged them for plotting a terrorist attack.

Miller乌鸦传媒檚 gripping film, world-premiered at Vancouver乌鸦传媒檚 DOXA film festival last May, uses surveillance video to help show how an impoverished pair became radicalized Muslims with pressure and guidance of undercover police who, the director contends, sought to 乌鸦传媒渕anufacture乌鸦传媒� the terrorist threat.

Last year the couple announced plans to sue police, prosecutors in their case and the B.C. and Canadian governments.

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Nuttall and Korody still live in the Surrey area, the Montreal-based director said.

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Miller said she乌鸦传媒檚 remained in contact with the lawyer involved in the the couple乌鸦传媒檚 2022 lawsuit against police and governments.

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Miller says DOXA is the only 乌鸦传媒渂ig festival乌鸦传媒� in Canada to have welcomed the film, to date, and she乌鸦传媒檚 not entirely sure why.

乌鸦传媒淓very other of the Canadian festivals that are in, like, the A tier, the bigger festivals, have snubbed the film, and there still isn乌鸦传媒檛 a Canadian broadcaster that乌鸦传媒檚 taken the film,乌鸦传媒� Miller said.

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乌鸦传媒淚s it a conspiracy to say that maybe broadcasters don乌鸦传媒檛 want to ruffle any feathers and have any issues? I don乌鸦传媒檛 know. It乌鸦传媒檚 tricky for me to say because nobody wants sour grapes, and there are so many good docs that don乌鸦传媒檛 get a license or that don乌鸦传媒檛 get into good festival, or bigger festivals, I should say.

乌鸦传媒淚乌鸦传媒檓 very thrilled with the results so far,乌鸦传媒� Miller added. 乌鸦传媒淲e乌鸦传媒檝e won a couple of awards, and international eyeballs will see this film. But it is a Canadian subject for a Canadian audience. I can乌鸦传媒檛 speak on behalf of the broadcasters, but it is one of those things, right, because maybe it乌鸦传媒檚 as simple as no one wants to be critical of the RCMP and CSIS because of the cultural ecosystem that we live in, in Canada.乌鸦传媒�

- with files from Jane Skrypnek