Pennsylvania Cinema Begins Weekly Run of 'P4T'

The new year kicks off with '9/11 PRESS FOR TRUTH' beginning a theatrical run every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM at the Anthony Wayne Theater in the Philadelphia suburb of Wayne, Pennsylvania. Cost is $5.00 for adults, children are free. Proceeds go to the FealGood Foundation for first responders who are sick and dying from exposure to chemicals and dust in the cleanup.

The January 29th showing will be a special event attended by "Jersey Girls" Lori Van Auken and Mindy Kleinberg -- the 9/11 widows whose story is told in 'PRESS FOR TRUTH' -- as well as Bob McIlvaine, who lost his son Bobby in the WTC, the documentary filmmaker Dylan Avery, and 'PRESS FOR TRUTH' director Ray Nowosielski. Q&A will follow at the nearby restaurant FreeHouse.

The Anthony Wayne is a historic movie palace first opened in 1928. 109 W. Lancaster Ave., Wayne, PA. This theatrical run will take place weekly through January and February. Thanks to Jon Gold and Betsy Metz for organizing it.

European Tour of Top Cinemas Begins Today

Starting today and continuing through December 17, '9/11 Press For Truth' will be coming to well-known movie theaters in important cities throughout France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The French capital of Paris, the Belgien capital of Brussels, and Switzerland's 2nd largest city, Geneva, will be among them. The movie will play in English with French subtitles.

The tour coincides with the November 20th DVD release of a European version of 'Press For Truth' (French translation: 'En Quete De Verite'), PAL, all zones, in English with French and Spanish subtitle options, available for order here.

The tour's French organizers explained, "We chose 'Press For Truth' because it is one of the best films ever produced on the subject of 9/11. It features both absolute factual accuracy and professional journalistic fairness." Democrats Abroad and other groups are helping out with promotion, as well as hosting private events to accompany many of the screenings.

In Paris, 'Press For Truth' is playing on Friday, December 7th, at the Action Christine Odeon, a two-room art house, located in a 17th Century building, the theater has been one of the pillars of Hollywood cinema in the City of Lights for over 30 years.

A larger follow-on European tour, to include London, is also planned for early 2008. The current tour consists of the following dates:

November 19
Brussels, Belgium
(The Capital of Belgium)
The Cinema Nova

November 23
Louvain, Belgium
(20 miles east of Brussels)
The Provinciehuis

November 26
Nancy, France
(The Lorraine region)
The Cinema Cameo

November 27
Metz, France
(The Lorraine region)
The Cinema Cameo Ariel

December 3
Lausanne, Switzerland
(30 miles northeast of Geneva, on the shores of Lake Geneva)
The Pathe Galleries 6

December 4
Geneva, Switzerland
(The 2nd largest city in Switzerland)
The Cinema Pathe Rialto

December 5
Lyon, France
(The 3rd largest city in France)
The Cinema CNP Terreaux

December 6
Marseille, France
(The 2nd largest city in France)
The Cinema Prado

December 7
Paris, France
(The Capital of France)
The Action Christine Odeon

December 11
Lille, France
(The 4th largest city in France, on the border of Belgium)
The Cinema Majestic

December 17
Toulouse, France
(The 5th largest city in France)
The Cinema Utopia

Many thanks to the organizers of this tour and to the cinemas showing the movie!

Over 600 at Montana Anniversary Screening

We have just received word that a Bozeman, Montana, screening of '9/11 Press For Truth' was also a major success. The Montana State University Leadership Institute sponsored the showing at the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture on the evening of the 6th anniversary of Sept. 11th. Over 600 filled the theater, many standing.

The large and loving crowd was a bit of a surprise in this very conservative town of 30,000. Several MSU professors have now said that, as a result of seeing the movie, they will be holding meaningful dialogues on the subject in their classes.

Around 300 stayed as late as 11:00 P.M. for a panel discussion led by Jarl von Arlyon and Dr. Graeme MacQueen. Dr. MacQueen is a recently retired associate professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.

Von Arlyon had offices in the World Trade Center and had been scheduled to host a tour at the top of WTC One at 9:00 A.M. on 9/11 but had overslept. He was familiar with the towers and security clearances necessary to enter and had previously discussed fears of possible terrorist attacks with the FBI and CIA. Von Arlyon first began examining certain issues related to 9/11 after viewing 'Press For Truth' earlier this year at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival.

National Public Radio (NPR) featured Von Arlyon and MacQueen live on Sept. 10th to talk about 'Press For Truth'. The showing also received a prominent write-up in Bozeman's major paper 'The Daily Chronicle'. Read it here.

Nearly 800 Turn Out for Minneapolis Screening on 9/11 Anniversary

The Riverview Theater, a 700-seat movie theater in Minneapolis, was filled beyond capacity for the Sept. 11th sixth anniversary showing of '9/11 Press For Truth'. Many sat on the stairs or stood for an hour and a half, while other unfortunate late-comers were turned away.

Famed FBI 9/11 whistleblower Coleen Rowley (2002 'Time Magazine' Person of the Year) introduced the movie, followed by Catherine Statz, who lost her sister at the Pentagon six years ago. Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura was in attendance, as were several of the makers of 'Press For Truth'.

Many who were at the showing remained for another two hours at a follow-up Q&A across the street at the Riverview Cafe hosted by director Ray Nowosielski, co-producer John Duffy, and "wall of TVs" computer animator Erik Potter, along with Rowley and Statz.

Local television Fox9 News covered the packed event for an evening news story that truly was fair and balanced. View it below.



"Jersey Girl" Lorie Van Auken, a 9/11 widow whose story was told in 'Press For Truth', appeared that evening on the national Air America radio program 'Clout!', calling for the release of the entire CIA Inspector General's Report on 9/11. Listen here. Executive producer Kyle Hence also appeared on Portland Radio to talk about the movie.

'P4T' Director, Co-Producer Coming to Minneapolis For 9/11 6th Anniversary

'9/11 Press For Truth' director Ray Nowosielski and co-producer John Duffy have announced they will be attending the free screening of the movie in Minneapolis on the 6th anniversary of 9/11, at 5:20 P.M. at Riverview Theater.

They will join famed FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley, who is introducing the movie. Nowosielski and Duffy will take questions afterward at the wine bar across the street from the theater.

Promoting the screening, Nowosielski appeared for a half hour this morning on Don Olsen's radio show on KFAI 90.3/106.7 Minneapolis-St. Paul "Radio Without Boundaries". You can listen to a recording of the show here.

If you are in Minnesota, you can also catch Nowosielski this Monday at 5:30 P.M. on Air America (AM 950), or listen live online here.

FBI Whistleblower Tapes Ads Promoting 'P4T'

After September 11th, FBI Special Agent Colleen Rowley wrote a scathing letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller over what she characterized as FBI Headquarters' pre-9/11 blocking of her Minneapolis Field Office's attempts to investigate "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui, whom they had arrested the month before the attacks.

Rowley was called to testify before the Senate and later the 9/11 Commission and was named 'Time Magazine's 2002 "Person of the Year" for her efforts to bring the truth to light in this matter.

Now, Rowley has appeared in two radio ads promoting '9/11 Press For Truth'. The ads, a 60 second and 30 second version, are running on Air America AM 950 in Minnesota's Twin Cities beginning yesterday and through September 11th, in the run-up to a Minneapolis 9/11 6th anniversary screening of 'Press For Truth' to take place at the Riverview Theater (3800 42nd Ave. South) at 5:00 P.M.

The now-retired 20-year FBI Special Agent will be attending the screening and will speak for a few minutes following. Two previous screenings of 'Press For Truth' at the Riverview have sold out, so if you live in the area, be sure to arrive early!

Rupert Murdoch Buys '9/11 Press For Truth'

Well, sort of. '9/11 Press For Truth' will have it's Australian television premiere on The History Channel, owned by FoxTel, a Rupert Murdoch-owned company.

'Press For Truth' will premiere as part of a day-long block of programming devoted to Sept. 11th on Australia's The History Channel in honor of the sixth anniversary of the attacks. Hopes are high that this may lead to a U.S. History Channel deal.

Also buying 'Press For Truth' for television broadcasts, most likely over the 9/11 anniversary, are the Polish digital satellite channel Planete, owned by Vivendi Universal, and Spanish public television channel TVE, the largest audio-visual group in Spain to broadcast in the Spanish language.

These are the second channels in both Poland and Spain to purchase the movie for television. Another deal with Sweden is being finalized.

'P4T' Launches "9/11 Accountability Project" For 6th Anniversary

The makers of '9/11 Press For Truth', with our partners at DownsizeDC.org, have launched the "9/11 Accountability Project", providing an easy online system by which you can send either a message or a 'Press For Truth' Pack to your Congressperson! To learn more, click here.

We are encouraging fans to host a house party starting next week, from Friday, Sept. 7th - Sunday, Sept. 16th, as part of the Sept. 11th anniversary "Answers For 9/11 Families Week", in collaboration with Democrats.com and DownsizeDC.org.

Thus far, fifteen activists have signed up at BraveNewTheaters.com to host a 'Press For Truth' house party for that week, including in Greencastle, IN, Kalamazoo, MI, Young Harris, GA, Greensboro, NC, Lawrence, KS, Prescott, AZ, Mount Vernon & Langley, WA, Paradise, Whittier, and Santa Barbara, CA.

We know we can do better than this! Please sign up now to host your own house party for that week.

Hosts will be sent an email suggesting helpful activities for your guests. Most important among these will be encouraging your guests to get online there and then -- at the party -- and send a message or 'Press For Truth' Pack to their Congressmen as part of the "9/11 Accountability Project".

Theatrical showings of 'Press For Truth' will also take place ON the 6th anniversary in three different cities.

In Oakland, California, it will be playing at 1:20 PM at the Grand Lake Theater (3200 Grand Ave.). Thanks to Carol Brouillet for organizing that. In Minneapolis, MN, it will be playing at 5:00 PM at the Riverview Theater (3800 42nd Ave. South). Thanks to Catherine Statz for that one. And it MAY be playing at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, New York. We will know soon on that one.

If you are in California, New York, or Minnesota, those showings are expected to sell out, so please arrive early.

Canadian Favorite Interviews 'P4T' Director

Back in February, '9/11 Press For Truth' director Ray Nowosielski was a guest on CKLN Radio, Toronto's 88.1 FM. CKLN is one of Toronto's most respected radio stations in any format, frequently being named as a listener favorite in magazine and newspaper polls.

After a good deal of listener response, CKLN posted the interview online yesterday. Listen to it here.

Thanks to radio personality Black Krishna for the further exposure in Canada.

News Updates Moved to Blogger.com

The official news page of '9/11 Press For Truth' has been moved to 911PressForTruth.BlogSpot.com, and major new updates have been made. Of course, if you're reading this, you already know...

For those interested in more general 9/11-related news, especially regarding the Sept. 11th families and the new Kucinich 9/11 hearings, 'Press For Truth' executive producer Kyle F. Hence will be writing regularly on that subject at the OLD blog location:

Blog.MySpace.com/911PressForTruth.

'P4T' Director on Tennessee Radio

'9/11 Press For Truth' director Ray Nowosielski appeared this evening for a half hour on 'The Harry Grothjahn Show' on WBCR AM 1470 in Knoxville, Tennessee, to promote an area screening of the movie tomorrow night (Wednesday) at The Cafe Theater. Thanks to Harry for organizing the showing and for the radio exposure.

'P4T' to Air on Australian and Swedish TV

One of our distributors emailed us from Hungary's capitol of Budapest, where they are shopping around '9/11 Press For Truth' at the 15th annual DISCOP, the only market dedicated to television sales for Central and Eastern European countries. They are reporting that they have finalized deals for 'Press For Truth' to air on television in Australia and in Sweden.

The movie has previously sold to television channels in Norway, Spain, Poland, and the entire Middle East. We'll provide more details on this new deal as we get them.

Democrats.com Join New "Jersey Girls Deserve Answers" Campaign

Democrats.com sent an email blast to their almost 20,000-person mailing list last night in support of our new campaign to encourage Congress to support the new Kucinich 9/11 Investigation until ALL REMAINING FAMILY STEERING COMMITTEE QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED.

This represents a major breakthrough in getting this campaign to the American public. The team at '9/11 Press For Truth' are continuing our efforts to build a large, diverse coalition of groups behind this new campaign.

"Jersey Girls" Reach Petition Goal, Head to D.C.

In a press release, the "Jersey Girls", four widows from New Jersey whose story is told in '9/11 Press For Truth', announced that they have now surpassed their goal of 15,000 signatures on their petition entitled "The Public's Right to Know - Declassification and Release of Documents".

As we have written previously, the online petition calls for the release of all transcripts and documents related to the recently-revealed July 10th, 2001, meeting between then-CIA Director George Tenet and then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, as well as the 28 redacted pages of the Joint Inquiry Report and the CIA Inspector General's report on 9/11 accountability.

"As promised," the women write, "we have hand delivered it to lawmakers in Washington, D.C." The Jersey widows are asking you to please help them by calling your Congresspeople and telling them the public has a right to know.

You can contact your House Representatives using this site and your Senator using this site.

Following Controversy, 'P4T' Director Returns to Radio in Defense

Over the last week, according to Jim Babka, president of our partner DownsizeDC.org, the new "Jersey Girls Deserve Answers" Campaign has illicited the most heated response in the organization's three year history. Babka has spent the week wading through emails, attempting to explain our position one reply at a time.

The emails have mostly been coming from two polar opposite camps. Half are from people who are angry that DownsizeDC seems to be veering off it's course into "conspiracy land", and the other half are conspiracy theorists who are angry that '9/11 Press For Truth' doesn't push any conspiracy theories! A contradiction, to be sure.

In order to better clarify the positions of both DownsizeDC and '9/11 Press For Truth', Babka has invited the movie's director, Ray Nowosielski, to return to his radio program, the DownsizeDC Conference Call, today at 4:00PM Eastern time to "get into specifics".


"There are more than just two options regarding 9/11," says Nowosielski. "It isn't simply 'The government told us the whole truth' OR 'conspiracy theory' -- take your pick. Another option, where I think the 'Jersey Girls' and Paul Thompson and myself fall, is that we can't be sure right now exactly what all happened here, but we can clearly demonstrate from the available facts a pattern of utter failure and in some cases criminal negligence, lies, perjury, and obstruction of justice by many U.S. government officials. And we need to see some accountability for that."

After the show, an MP3 recording can be downloaded and listened to from here.