'P4T' Director Will Announce New Campaign Tomorrow on Radio Show

'9/11 Press For Truth' director Ray Nowosielski will join radio host Jim Babka on his one-hour radio show, the DownsizeDC Conference Call, tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) at 4:00PM Eastern time, where the two will announce an important new campaign to help the 9/11 families "press for truth".

Jim Babka is the president of DownsizeDC.org, "the MoveOn.org of libertarian politics", an organization advocating common sense small-government legislation that nearly anyone could get behind, like the Read the Bills Act, which would require Congresspeople to ACTUALLY READ THE LEGISLATION before being legally allowed to vote on it.


DownsizeDC will be an instrumental part of this new campaign. After the show, an MP3 recording can be downloaded and listened to from here.

U.S. Film Festival Premiere of 'P4T'

'9/11 Press For Truth' screened at 2:00PM today at the Central Cinema theater in Seattle as an official selection of the Seattle True Independent Film Festival, the movie's American festival debut.

Director Ray Nowosielski spent the week in Seattle promoting the movie and meeting with fellow filmmakers at the festival. The town was alive with film fans and industry professionals as STIFF ran concurrently with the Seattle International Film Festival, the largest festival in the world. Nowosielski was surprised to learn that John Sinno, producer of last year's Oscar-nominated feature documentary 'Iraq in Fragments', is a fan of 'Press For Truth'. Sinno ended up taking him to lunch, where they discussed future possibilities for reaching a wider audience with 'Press For Truth'.

View executive producer Kyle F. Hence's Q&A with the audience after the STIFF screening:

Rosie O'Donnell Links to 'P4T'

Love her, or hate her. Rosie O'Donnell, provocative daytime personality of ABC's 'The View', has linked from her official site at Rosie.com to our official site, 911PressForTruth.com.

'P4T' Now Top 9,000 of All Movies Ever Made on IMDbPro

Back in March, we reported that IMBDpro's MOVIEmeter, which ranks all movies in it's database by interest from it's 47 million visitors each month, had ranked '9/11 Press For Truth' at an all-time high for the movie of #10,631. Since that time, interest in the movie has continued to rise, and this week it has reach a new all-time high, #8,617.

"Jersey Girls" Petition Within 4,000 Signatures of Goal

We first reported back in October on a new effort by the "Jersey Girls" to petition for the immediate declassification of a number of specific documents which could have major ramifications to our understanding of September 11th.

Now, an update by journalist Joseph Murtagh of the independent Internet news site 'The Muckraker Report' reveals that the widows are within 4,000 signatures of their stated goal of 15,000, at which time they have said they will get back in the game (our words, not theirs) by heading down to Washington, D.C., with the petition.

Help put them over the top by signing their petition.

New Web Site at 911PressForTruth.com

The makers of '9/11 Press For Truth' have launched a new, slick design to their web site at 911PressForTruth.com with new content and features. The new site is being introduced in advance of a new "Jersey Girls Deserve Answers" Campaign that is set to be announced in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to the site for more info.

'P4T' Official Selection of Seattle Film Festival

The Seattle True Independent Film Festival has named '9/11 Press For Truth' an official selection of this year's STIFF. It will be our U.S. film festival premiere!

The festival will be held at multiple venues in downtown Seattle from May 24th - June 3rd, 2007, including Central Cinema, Jewel Box Theater at the Rendezvous, and Market Theater.

If you are in the Seattle area, please join us for our screening (date TBA) and in the celebration of off-beat independent film from the Northwest and the rest of the world!

http://www.trueindependent.org/
http://www.myspace.com/stiff2006/

TimeWarner Releases 'P4T' DVD in UK

TimeWarner subsidiary Rykodisc released '9/11 Press For Truth' on DVD today in stores across Great Britain. The PAL format Region 2 disc should help satiate the English-language European audience that has been flooding us with requests for the movie.

Our friends across the pond can also buy the DVD online at Amazon.co.uk.

'Albuquerque Tribune' Provides More Exposure

New Mexico newspaper 'The Albuquerque Tribune' features an extensive article in today's issue about the upcoming theatrical screening of '9/11 Press For Truth' at the area's Guild Cinema. Read the full article.

'Press For Truth' will play at 2:00PM on both Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1, at the Guild Cinema, Albuquerque's only independently-owned single-screen movie theater, at 3405 Central Avenue, NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Two blocks west of Carlisle in Nob Hill). Thanks to recent University of New Mexico political science graduate Colin Donoghue for his help in organizing this.

A Busy Two Days For 'P4T'

The universe is strange. Very little may happen over the course of weeks. Then, suddenly, everything all at once!


On Sunday (March 25th) at 1:00 pm, '9/11 Press For Truth' screened to a full house at the Upstate Films theater in Rhinebeck, New York. Executive Producer Rory O'Connor of Globalvision attended the showing, introducing the movie. 'Press For Truth' was honored to join the fine tradition of Upstate Films, which has nurtured the specialty, alternative-to-the-mainstream film audience since 1972. It is known as the "venue for the hard-to-find, the overlooked and the controversial". Thanks to the guys at Upstate for a great event.



That same day, at 6:30 pm (Rio de Janeiro time), 'Press For Truth' had it's world film festival premiere as an official selection of the 12th annual 'It's All True' International Documentary Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the biggest documentary film festival in South America. Thanks to everyone at 'It's All True'.


Then, yesterday (Monday the 26th), at 9:00 pm (Guadalajara time), '9/11 Press For Truth' had it's Latin American film festival premiere as an official selection of the 22nd annual Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico, the most important Spanish-language film festival in the world. Thanks to everyone at GIFF.

Congressman Announces New 9/11 Hearings

'The Albany Times Union' reported today on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's announcement of plans to launch an investigation of "a narrow portion" of 9/11, saying that the 9/11 Commission Final Report "never resolved some conflicting facts."

Anyone who has seen '9/11 Press For Truth' knows exactly what he is talking about, as members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee revealed for the first time in the movie that, in the words of widow Lorie Van Auken, the Final Report failed to answer "70% of our questions". The FSC Review of the Final Report can be downloaded here.

Kucinich is chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee which is currently examining various misdeads of government officials, as well as a 2008 Democratic presidential candidate. 911PressForTruth.com will soon be launching a new web site tailored around specific activism toward this Kucinich investigation. In the meantime, you are encouraged to send Rep. Kucinich a message of thanks through the Write Your Representative service and encourage him to broaden his inquiry until every one of the families' questions have been answered.

'P4T' Now Top 11,000 of All Movies Ever Made on IMDbPro

Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is the largest online database of films in existence, reaching back to the medium's beginning and spanning content of origin from around the world. IMDbPro, the private, subscription-funded spinoff intended for movie industry professionals, has a system called the MOVIEmeter, ranking all titles from number 1 to number 981,916, using "proprietary algorithms that take into account several measures of popularity for titles, primary of which is what people are looking at on the public IMDb.com website, as well as factors including box office receipts and user quality votes on a scale of 1-10".

The filmmakers were pleased to discover that, according to IMDb's measure of interest by it's 47 million visitors each month, '9/11 Press For Truth' is currently ranked #10,631. For a proper gauge of what that means, let's compare it with a similar movie.

The premise for the documentary 'On Native Soil' may sound familiar. It told the story of the 9/11 Commission, prominently featuring interviews with Sept. 11th families. 'Soil' was released the same month as 'Press For Truth'; but unlike 'Press', 'Soil' was released by major theatrical distributor Lionsgate and featured narration by Hollywood mega-stars Kevin Costner and Hillary Swank. 'On Native Soil's current IMDb MOVIEmeter ranking is #36,655.

The high ranking is even more surprising given that 'Press For Truth' has not done any major marketing or promotions for the past several months, meaning that the interest is taking place on a grassroots level, of it's own volition.

According to the MOVIEmeter graph, interest in the movie began to spike sharply in late January and has continued upward ever since, now at an all-time high -- even higher than last September when 'Press For Truth' premiered, at a ranking of #17,202.

Bill Moyers Offers 'P4T' as Premium on PBS

'9/11 Press For Truth' continues to gain stature and viewership. The DVD is being offered as a premium on PBS, using a voice over recorded by Bill Moyers to sell the film. Moyers is best known as the host of PBS's 'NOW with Bill Moyers' and was a news analyst for CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC. In the mid-1960s, he was also White House Press Secretary for President Lyndon Johnson -- but we won't hold that against him.

A number of Pacifica stations across the nation have also offered the DVD as a premium.

'P4T' Official Selection of Mexican Film Festival

Mexico's Guadalajara International Film Festival has named '9/11 Press For Truth' an official selection of this year's 22nd annual running. It will be our Latin American film festival premiere!


Held from March 22nd - 30th, 2007, in Mexico's 2nd largest city, Guadalajara ("City of Roses"), it is considered the most prestigious film festival in Latin America and the most important Spanish-language film festival in the world! If you are in the area, please join us for our screening on March 26th at 9:00PM at Cinepolis Centro Magno.

Free Speech TV to Also Air 'P4T'

American satellite channel Free Speech TV joins LinkTV as the second channel in the U.S. to purchase '9/11 Press For Truth'. Viewed on Dish Network's Channel 9415 and on over 150 community access cable stations, Free Speech TV reaches a potential audience of over twenty-five million people.

Free Speech TV acquisitions manager Kyle Harris approached our U.S. television distributor, MercuryMedia, late last week about adding 'Press For Truth' to the channel's programming.