PHILLY FILM MAKER'S HOMETOWN FESTIVAL PREMIERE PRESENTS DOCUMENTARY ON IMMIGRATION, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & CORPORATE MURDER MYSTERY
Submitted by Jamie on Sat, 05/22/2010
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
HOMETOWN FILMMAKER'S PHILLY FESTIVAL PREMIERE PRESENTS DOCUMENTARY ON IMMIGRATION, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND CORPORATE MURDER MYSTERY
Philadelphia, PA May 22, 2010 - Philadelphia based documentary filmmaker Jamie Moffett will be screening his feature, Return to El Salvador, as the Philadelphia premiere:
Thursday, June 24th
8pm
The Ritz East
125 S. 2nd St. Philadelphia, PA 19106
ORDER TICKETS: tickets.returntoelsalvador.com
This screening is part of the 3rd Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. Mr. Moffett will be in attendance and available for comment and interview.
Return to El Salvador documents the aftermath of a 12 year civil war and the interplay between the Salvadoran people and the US politics and policies that directly influence the Central American country. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the film features interviews by former US ambassador to El Salvador Robert White, and has been endorsed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The film also outlines the disappearance of prominent mining activist Marcelo Rivera. While in El Salvador shooting principal photography, Moffett and his crew stumbled upon the disappearance of Rivera - he had been "disappeared" days prior to the filming of the documentary. Investigating further, our crew found more and more signs in this mysterious disappearance pointing towards the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining Company. Eventually, as the film goes on to tell, Rivera's body was found - not by police, who had no information, but by his friends.
"The story I came across changed my life," says Moffett. "After 18 months of production, I'm so excited to share Return to El Salvador with my hometown Philly audience. We're a diverse city and it's good to be reminded and re-minded who our neighbors are."
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“This movie is captivating and gripping story telling. This documentary takes you back to 1992 and the end of a brutal and dirty guerilla war. The details that emerge will certainly make even the most schooled on this subject take notice. What happened 18 years ago has not only continued on, but has never actually ended. The director, Jamie Moffett has us re live the actual events and brings subjects back to their homes to recount the war. The horror of the events unfold, and you are there.” Benjamin Barnett, Festival Director
About Jamie Moffett Media Design and Production:
Moffett founded Jamie Moffett Media Design & Production, Inc. in 2004, an independent motion picture production company focusing on social justice issues. Through this company Moffett has produced and directed such films as the Another World Is Possible series, The Ordinary Radicals and more recently Return to El Salvador. In 2005 Moffett directed the music video "Sweetheart"[6] in Jamaica for the band Soulfége, led by activist Derrick Ashong.
About the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival:
Produced by the Media Bureau in Northern Liberties Philadelphia, this annual independent film festival held from June 23 – 27, 2010, brings together peers, admirers, critics, creators, audience members, and on-line viewers of independent films to present, discuss, and experience the scope of independent movie maker possibilities.
Jamie Moffett, Director, 'Return to El Salvador'
Ph: +215.840.8552
Contact: Benjamin Barnett 267 228 -0333
