Thanks to Everyone Who Helped Make This Year a Success

This year saw '9/11 Press For Truth' not only complete it's over-two-years-long production but also find critical acclaim and a receptive, enthusiastic audience from a groundswell of concerned people worldwide who felt that the 9/11 Commission and the western news media had failed to account for many important issues.

'Press For Truth' opened theatrically in eight major cities in the the U.S. and, thanks to the activists at Robert Greenwald's Brave New Theaters, at over a hundred house parties in more than fifty cities around the country. The movie aired on televisions in Spain, Norway, Poland, and throughout the Middle East on al Jazeera. It was released on DVD by The Disinformation Company for sale across America at select Borders, Virgin Megastore, Sam Goody, Suncoast, and Amazon.com, and for rent at Netflix and Blockbuster.com.

This feat was accomplished not by us, but by dozens and dozens (hundreds?) of people and organizations that made all these things possible. To try to list them all without forgetting someone would be an exercise in futility. You know who you are. Thank you all so much.

And thanks to you, the receptive audience who embraced this movie. What a year! Let's hope, for all our sakes, that the message gets spread far and wide in 2007.

New Robert Greenwald Promo Video Features 'Press For Truth' Director

Over the past six years, producer/director Robert Greenwald ('Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price', 'Outfoxed', 'Uncovered: The War in Iraq') has revolutionized motion picture distribution. Now, his independent distribution system Brave New Theaters has released a new promotional video prominently featuring an original interview with '9/11 Press For Truth' director Ray Nowosielski, as well as clips from the movie. View it on YouTube:



'Press For Truth' is currently the most successful non-Greenwald movie in Brave New Theaters' history, with over 100 screenings through it's activist network.

Sign up to host your own 'Press For Truth' house party.

A Christmas Present From a Conservative Magazine

'The New American', the bi-weekly national magazine published by the John Birch Society, writes in today's issue that "'9/11 Press For Truth' effectively presents some of the most glaring discrepancies, lies, and coverups concerning the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil."

Go here and search "Pressing For the Truth on 9/11" to read the full article.

It is important to note that the John Birch Society is a staunchly conservative American exceptionalist organization founded in 1958 to fight communist philosophy in the U.S. They are rabidly anti-socialist and anti-leftist.

'Press For Truth' has often been mislabeled a "left-leaning" documentary despite the efforts of the filmmakers to stay away from politics entirely and stick to a "just the facts, ma'am" approach. It is the facts, not the filmmakers, that are unfriendly to the Bush administration, among others, regarding 9/11.

The conservative 'New American' concurs, writing that the movie "transcends partisan politics and should be seen by all Americans who are committed to justice and are determined to secure our country against similar -- or worse -- attacks in the future."

U.S. Journalist Praises, Screens 'Press For Truth' in France

Lisa Finnegan, an independent, award-winning journalist who has spent nearly two decades reporting for newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad, has asked permission to screen '9/11 Press For Truth' at various speaking engagements she will be having throughout the south of France.

Finnegan recently released her new book 'No Questions Asked: News Coverage Since 9/11', a methodical exposition of the media's failings since that fateful day. Today on her web site, she explains why she feels 'Press For Truth' is the best movie to illustrate her points, writing, "The movie is brilliant in that it allows the facts to speak for themselves."

Read the full article by going here and searching "press for truth".

Netflix 'Press For Truth' DVDs Purposely Broken

A concerned supporter from St. Paul, Minnesota, sent us an email today that reads as follows:

"I thought you might be interested to hear about my experience trying to rent '9/11: Press for Truth' from Netflix. Yesterday I received my fourth 'broken' (literally -- cracked in half) copy of the film. This is well beyond any damage that could happen by chance. Below is my correspondence, to date, with Netflix customer service. I'm awaiting my fifth copy, which is expected to arrive tomorrow. We'll see just what condition that one is in! I can't imagine that I am the only one who has had this sort of trouble. Maybe you've heard other similar stories?? Thanks for your attention. I look forward to seeing this film someday!"

The correspondence she received from the Netflix Customer Service department furthers the mystery, since they claim "our warehouse staff performs an inspection on each and every DVD before it leaves our warehouse... If a movie is not visibly damaged... we will ship the copy to the next customer."

T-Shirts & Bumper Stickers Now Available at 911PressForTruth.com

The makers of '9/11 Press For Truth' have teamed with MRW Connected, an innovative marketing/processing/fulfillment firm that promotes the work of social entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations who are striving to accomplish positive social change, to launch the new 911PressForTruth.com online store.

Along with the movie on DVD, the store currently offers 'Press For Truth' T-shirts and bumper stickers reading "Support a New Investigation" with the 'Press For Truth' web address below it.

Debunkers Find 'Press For Truth' Difficult to Debunk, Give Up

ScrewLooseChange.com is a web site devoted to debunking the popular online 9/11 "conspiracy" movie 'Loose Change'. Apparently, having heard a lot of online buzz about '9/11 Press For Truth', irritated that many on the blogs were referring to the movie as "undebunkable" and as, finally, the movie that exactly states their reasons for skepticism regarding September 11th, and mistakenly assuming that the movie presents a "conspiracy theory", the folks at Screw Loose Change devoted four entire sections to a 10-minute by 10-minute debunking of 'Press For Truth'.

Read them here:
Analysis Part I
Analysis Part II
Analysis Part III
Analysis Part IV

Hilariously, they appear to have had a lot of trouble finding anything to complain about and seemingly gave up their debunking efforts after the fourth analysis, only forty minutes into the movie. A number of their regular blog commentators even began defending the movie on ScrewLooseChange.com after finally viewing it.

One blogger nicknamed "TAM", who was making some of the more derogatory blog comments after each of the "debunk" entries, seems now to have been won over after ACTUALLY WATCHING the movie. Read her blog entry here.

TAM calls 'Press For Truth' "one of the more honest films in terms of what needs to be asked about 9/11". This person -- who regularly blogs for a site that dubs itself "a place to present the minority Internet view that the 'official' story on 9/11, for the most part, is true" -- went on to write, "What this film has done for me, is made me realize that the loons of the 'truth' movement have distracted many of us from realizing that a part of their 'movement' are legitimate people, with legitimate questions for their government."

'Press For Truth' Makers Apologize to John Gannon

Due to an oversight on the part of the makers of '9/11 Press For Truth', videographer John Gannon was not credited in the closing credits for his contributions to the movie. Our apologies to Mr. Gannon, whose was kind enough to allow us to use his original footage in several places throughout the movie.

The filmmakers would like to acknowledge and thank John Gannon for his contributions to '9/11 Press For Truth'. Such acknowledgement has also been added to The Filmmakers section of 911PressForTruth.com.

'Stanford Daily' Cover Story on 'Press For Truth'

Following the successful Palo Alto screening of '9/11 Press For Truth', which featured a talk by Complete 9/11 Timeline author (and Stanford University alumnus) Paul Thompson, newspaper 'The Stanford Daily' today features a front page story with graphics about the movie, headlined "911 call on 9/11 response".

Paul Thompson & Peter Dale Scott at San Fran Area Screening

Paul Thompson, whose Complete 9/11 Timeline was the basis for '9/11 Press For Truth', will be returning to the San Francisco area tonight, home of his alma mater Stanford University, to speak following what's expected to be a packed Palo Alto screening of 'Press For Truth' at the Spangenberg Theater.



He will be joined by Berkeley English professor Peter Dale Scott, who has penned numerous articles on terrorism and is the author of the 2003 book 'Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Columbia, and Indochina'.

The screening is 7:00PM at 780 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, California.

The Reviews Are In!

The critics agree about '9/11 Press For Truth':

"4 out of 5 stars! One of the most thought-provoking [documentaries] I've seen."
Glenn Erickson, DVD Savant

"3 1/2 out of 4 stars!"
Jay Carr, AM New York

"3 1/2 out of 4 stars!"
Chuck Koplinski, Champaign Hub Weekly

"A truly excellent film."
James Ridgeway, Mother Jones

"Phenomenal! Stunning! Unbelievable!"
Randi Rhodes, Air America

"Striking! Troubling!"
Shawna Galassi, Santa Maria Sun

"Mind-boggling!"
Christopher Sharpe, The Austinist

"Chilling!"
Matthew Singer, Ventura County Reporter

"Powerful, moving and intelligent! A remarkable artistic statement that transcends ideology and
operates at the highest level of intellectual honesty, humanity, and patriotism."
Michael Collins, 'Scoop' Independent News

Read them all by going here and clicking on "Reviews".

Former U.S. Gov't Official Quotes From 'Press For Truth'

Actor Paul Newman and former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta have encouraged Burt Hall, former group director on matters of national security in the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO), to write an article posted today on Buzzflash.com entitled "A Matter of Security -- Republicans Vs. Democrats". Hall specifically cites '9/11 Press For Truth' as a "key source" for the article -- one of only two movies named, along with ABC docudrama 'Path to 9/11', which the article criticizes.

He also cites 'The Terror Timeline' as a key source, the book by Paul Thompson that was the basis for 'Press For Truth'.

"Jersey Girls" Announce a New Petition

Two weeks ago, famed 'Washington Post' reporter Bob Woodward's new book 'State of Denial', revealed the existence of a previously-unknown meeting on July 10, 2001, between then-CIA Director George Tenet, his counterterrorism chief Cofer Black, and White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, in which Tenet and Black claim to have warned Rice in the strongest terms that action needed to be taken to prevent the coming attack from Bin Laden.

Now, the "Jersey Girls", the four widowed protagonists of '9/11 Press For Truth', have announced a new online petition for the release of all transcripts and documents related to the July 10th, 2001, meeting, as well as the 28 redacted pages of the Joint Inquiry Report and the CIA Inspector General's report on 9/11 accountability. Please sign the petition here.

Of particular interest regarding the new revelation is the fact that neither Tenet nor Black nor Rice ever mentioned the July 10th meeting when testifying under oath before the 9/11 Commission, nor the earlier Congressional 9/11 Inquiry. Peter Rundlet, former counsel to the 9/11 Commission, points out that "withholding of information" from the Commission may constitute a crime and suggests that "it is hard to come to a different conclusion" than that of a cover-up regarding the incident.

Read the excellent coverage of this story by independent Internet news site 'The Raw Story'.

Foreign TV Embraces 'Press For Truth', American TV Ignores It

On the 5th anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks, '9/11 Press For Truth' aired for three nights in a row throughout the Middle East on major television network Al Jazeera.

In Norway, it aired on TV2, the nation's main commercial television station, with 1/3rd of the total TV viewers in the country, and 2/3rds of the commercial market. Norwegian newspapers reported that 200,000 viewers tuned in for the Sept. 11th anniversary showing, which was competing with 9/11-related programing on the nation's two other major channels.

Since then, it has also aired in Spain and Poland. In Spain, it aired on national public channel TV3 Catalunya.

In Poland, it aired through KRRT, and the DVD was included in the Sept. 6th, 2006, issue of the country-wide, weekly, Polish magazine Przekrój ("Cross-section"), along with a major article on the movie.

Meanwhile, in the United States, our television distributor MercuryMedia continue to search for an interested American outlet. Thus far, the acquisition executives at most channels have liked it but feel it is simply too explosive for American TV audiences.

Secret Service "Panic" at 1600 Showing of 'Press For Truth'

Stephen Surles, a man known as "The Sign Guy" for his five-months-long demonstration outside the front of the White House with, among other signs, one reading "The Sign Guy Sez So", emailed the makers of '9/11 Press For Truth' about a recent incident involving our movie.

"I have a bonafide, ratified, certified and verified permit with Metropolitan Police Department for the street, which is still under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia," writes Surles. "I started showing ['Press For Truth'] on my laptop 30 minutes after sundown on 10-01-06 Sunday. A few people gathered and were immersed in the movie. The movie touches your heart."

At this point, according to Surles, a Secret Service agent arrived asking to see his permit. Surles responded that the same agent had already checked his permit yesterday, but provided it again. Surles' permit was good until midnight on the night in question. The agent left.

A minute later, "more [Secret Service] came -- 5 or 6 at a time." The agents made a copy of his permit. "They told me my permit didn’t have a laptop listed as items authorized," writes Surles. "I told them I could have a laptop... I called Captain Bray at [Metropolitan Police Department who] pointed out... that pages 3 and 4 of the permit [allow for items such as laptops]."

After going away to inspect his permit again, the Secret Service agents returned to explain that his permit was only good for 24 hours and that he was to pack up again. Surles writes, "I pointed out their misreading of the details of the permit [which allowed me to stay there until midnight of that day].

In the end, Surles argument won out, and the agents left him alone for the remainder of the night.