Stranger at the Gate

Stranger at the Gate (2022)

A U.S. Marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town American mosque, but his plan takes an unexpected turn when he comes face to face with the people he sets out to kill.

Date of release
2022-02-23
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (39)
Runtime
30m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Joshua Seftel

Casting

Interesting facts

Stranger at the Gate is a 2022 American short documentary film directed by Joshua Seftel. The documentary is about an Afghan refugee named Bibi Bahrami and the members of her little Indiana mosque, who come face to face with Richard "Mac" McKinney, a U.S. Marine who has secret plans to bomb their community center. But Mac McKinney's plan takes an unexpected turn. Produced by Smartypants, the film had its world premiere on September 14, 2022 via YouTube and The New Yorker.

Production

The director in a statement in a question answer session told that he had read Richard “Mac” McKinney’s story in a small, Indiana newspaper a few years back, which was told from Mac’s vantage point. He said, "I had always wondered what it would be like to hear this story from the perspective of the congregants of the Islamic Center that McKinney planned to bomb, and to hear from McKinney’s wife and daughter about what it was like to live with a d…

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