Michael Moore hiding new film from US authorities: producer

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

CANNES, France (AFP) — Michael Moore, the controversial documentary maker critical of President George W. Bush's White House, is hiding his latest movie from US authorities ahead of its screening at Cannes, his producer said Wednesday.

"The film has been placed in a secret location outside the country (outside the United States)," a spokeswoman for the Weinstein Company, Sarah Levanson-Rothman, told AFP.

Moore, who won the Cannes Palme d'Or in 2004 with "Fahrenheit 9/11", is due to present "Sicko", his new documentary which takes a scathing look at the US health industry and its powerful insurance lobby, at the film festival on Saturday.

He is currently being investigated by US authorities for making a February trip to Cuba for a segment in the film in which...