Errol Morris is to tackle the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prison scandal in film and has begun developing the film already. It will examine the now infamous incidents of abuse of prisoners at the hands of the US soldiers, something which was seen across the world after they took trophy pictures home from the war in 2004.

I would be more concerned if this film was in the hands of other filmmakers, Morris has a strong reputation and may well look to the story from both sides. He created the documentary The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line.

However I am concerned that such things as the soldiers themselves may be skirted over, the effect of war on them, their command structure, the regular use and not so secret endorsement of these types of torture by various organisations in the world, including the US. I do hope that there's a hefty amount of balance and considered viewpoints piled in the film.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not taking any personal view on what happened there. What I am saying is that in every single issue there are two sides to a story, and for people to accept what one side says in an accessible forum such as the western press without listening properly to the other side, well I'm not so sure that's entirely fair or just. So we can just hope that all sides of this tale are presented in the documentary and that we're left to draw our own conclusions.

The news comes from Reuters and tells us that Sony Pictures Classic will back the film, a company that have been responsible for backing a number of strong documentaries of late, including An Inconvenient Truth (review).