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Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins
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The Abu Ghraib prison scandal and other examples of U.S. military abuse, have a history. A key part of it is revealed in Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins.
Through his extraordinary life and daring actions we learn about Fr. Roy Bourgeois and his struggle to find and reveal the truth about the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) and growing efforts by grassroots activists and Congress to shut it down.
In the documentary Fr. Roy — a Vietnam War hero — meets three men, each from a different Latin American country, who link SOA to torture training. One, a victim of that training, found an SOA teaching manual on torture. The other two were taught torture techniques at SOA. The filmmaker was warned that he will be killed if he reveals the name or location of one of these two, who was afraid of his own death because of the CIA secrets he disclosed.
In 1996 the White House Intelligence Oversight Board confirmed the explosive charges we documented and the Secretary of Defense at the time declared this would never happen again. Guantanamo, Iraq, secret prisons and rendition reflect the different and troubling policies of the Bush era.
Under its new name of Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, SOA continues. So does the growing campaign to shut SOA that involves thousands of students and others from all around the U.S.
Narrator: Susan Sarandon.
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"Powerful...recommended for all video collections."
Library Journal
(see full review below)
"A straight ahead, thoughtful exposé...sways you with the facts."
San Francisco Examiner
"Persuasive."
Boston Globe
"Chilling."
Dallas Morning News
"Inspiring."
Grand Rapids Press
"An inspiring tool for education and action."
Report on Guatemala
"One of the outstanding documentaries of 1997."
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Full Review: Library Journal
This film presents the story of Father Roy Bourgeois and his efforts to close the U.S. Army's School of the Americas, a Georgia-based training school of Latin American soldiers...An expanded version of the 1994 Academy Award-nominated documentary School of As-sassins, this powerful film presents one person's efforts to change American foreign policy. Narrated by actress Susan Sarandon, this is recommended for all video collections.
Stephen L. Hupp
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About Robert Richter |
Robert Richter's documentaries have been prime time telecasts on PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC, TBS, Discovery and on many major overseas television outlets.
His work has been honored with many major awards, ranging from three Academy Award nominations for best documentary short to three Dupont Columbia Broadcast Journalism awards (the "Pulitzer Prize of television journalism"), National Emmies, Peabody and many U.S. and overseas film festival prizes.
A New York City native, Richter attended a Telluride Association junior college in California, received a B.A. from Reed College in Oregon and was a member of the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop M.F.A. program where he began his professional career under the aegis of the screenwriter of all the early James Bond films.
While on a CBS Foundation News Fellowship at Columbia, where he received an M.A. in Public Law and Government, he joined the Edward R. Murrow- Fred Friendly documentary unit and produced prime time documentaries and news features with Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid, Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and other correspondents. He later produced prime time documentaries for ABC with Peter Jennings as correspondent, for NBC with Phil Donahue, and for PBS "Nova" and for other PBS telecasts.
Richter was President of the nationwide 5,000 member Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers for ten years and on the International Documentary Association board as their New York representative for seven years. He is a member of the Writers Guild East, Society of Professional Journalists, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Council on International Public Affairs. |
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